Posted on 03/02/2023 1:03:39 AM PST by allen592
A cute mystery animal found huddling near a dumpster has rescuers scratching their heads in Dallas, Texas. Earlier this week, officers from the Dallas Police Department found the sweet little puppy eating out of a dumpster and stranded all alone. However, upon closer inspection, the adorable puppy looked an awful lot like a baby fox or coyote, leaving rescuers with the question: Just what kind of animal is it, exactly?
Crossbred after two or three generations. I wouldn’t trust it around small children.
I’d say coyote.
It looks like some of the Eastern Coyote puppy picture on the ‘net.
Coyote. We’ve killed a few around my place.
I’m betting it’s a coyote-dog mix.
It kind of looks like a German Shepherd/coyote mix.
I hope they can find an appropriate home for it.
Don’t ask Ketanji Brown Jackson. She’s not a biologist.
Whatever it is, it’s adorable. :-)
Agreed. It looked like a coyote acts similar to a dog. I worked at a nuke plant in Nebraska, we had one there. A couple of guards got friendly with it but no body else. We set food out and he would make the perimeter rounds with his favorite guards. No one else though. We were adults and the guards had guns but I wouldn’t let a kid around. I am a dog person, I never made friends with it. It was peaceful around the plant at night, in the daytime it was gone. At another plant on the Missouri River south of that plant we had a pack of feral dogs. They pinned an operator in his truck one night and sacred the hell out of him. Next night Jim ( the police chief son in our little town and I made the rounds that our fellow operator tried the night before. Things quieted down after that. A coy dog peaceful and a feral pack of dogs requiring some discipline, strange. It also mattered I suppose the coy dog and armed guards at a nuke plant and Jim and I at a coal fired plant, one in Nebraska and one in Missouri. Both worked out. .
Looks like my first “dog.” Dad worked for the railroad and found him alongside the railroad tracks out in the country, apparently abandoned. You couldn’t have asked for a more affectionate thing. Never a sign of aggression. But we kept running into random people who said he was a coyote. When he was a year old a motorcyclist deliberately ran over him and killed him. I know it was deliberate because he asked me, “Hey, little boy, do you want a ride on my motorcycle? I always give little boys rides on my motorcycle after I kill their dogs.” I’ve never wished for an ice pick more in my life.
Looks kind of like my aunt’s pet coyote. He made a pretty good farm dog, was a very good mouse’s and ratter; she raised him with her baby chicks so he wouldn’t think of poultry as food, but rather as family, and guard them.
But unlike a dog, he was always shy of strangers and it took a long time to win his trust enough to scratch his warts or back. He moved like a coyote when people came over, constantly trotting in big arcs at a distance, close to cover, occasionally working closer from bush to bush out of curiosity but then darting away if anyone looked too hard at him.
He finally came up to sniff my hand because I avoided looking directly at him, just acted like he was not the center of my attention. Then he bumped my hand with his head like a cat and let me a scritch his ears. After that we were buddies.
“Well, see it got to be closing time and all the real foxes had left. There was this sorta cute coyote still sitting at the bar. I’m just a dog but I thought I’d give her a shot…”
That coyote sounds like one of the cats we rescued — the oldest and most feral. You had to glance around her, not at her, or she would be suspicious and run. After eight years, now she’s a cuddle bug.
Dallas Coyote.
Has Big Hair.
(If it tries dropping it on your head, it's a coyote.)
The bigger the hair, the closer to Heaven!!!
Chupacabra pup
That’s a special kind of evil.
Looks more like a collie mix, just hasn’t grown into those ears yet. Not a yote.
Chupacabra!! Run away!
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