People are still selling coyote/dogs for pets, as stupid as that may be.
I really think you just have generic feral dogs running amok.
That’s more common than you’d imagine, even in suburban areas so Texas would be paradise for them, no doubt.
As far as “Red Wolves” go
http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu/tmot1/canirufu.htm
They were thought to be extinct but some were found and bred in captivity and the pups released in the Carolinas.
Apparently they are no longer in Texas.
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Agreed.
That is beyond stupid-that is like having a cross between a lynx/bobcat and a domestic cat for a pet-an unpredictable, dangerous and probably very unhappy pet-I’m convinced that people who breed domestic pets with wild animals must secretly hate animals...
This is BF Egypt where I live-a rural area 35 miles from the city and 22 miles from the nearest “town”, so we do not have a lot of feral dogs-at least not if they are dumb enough to stay in the woods where a cougar has a territory. The game wardens say these aggressive, odd ones are coyote/dog crosses-but they definitely aren’t chupacabras...
I’ve read about the rescue and preservation of the red wolves with great interest-there were supposedly some in East Texas, but I read they were found to be bred with coyotes-what a shame.