Coyote-Wolf Hybrids Have Spread Across U.S. East

National Geographic ^ | November 7, 2011 | Christine Dell'Amore

[afraidfortherepublic]

The above picture looks a lot like the coyote or coyote/wolf hybrid I spotted strolling through my back yard last week. M speciman was larger — probably 40-50 lbs.

[bert]

-——Shouldn’t the govt put an end to this practice?——

If the government can’t control urban sluts, how do you propose it control coyote sluts?

[Hot Tabasco]

pretty big to be pure coyote.

I was pheasant hunting in N.W. Kansas a number of years ago when a coyote came barreling out of a plumb thicket at me up to about 10 feet away then swerved off and kept running. He wasn't charging me, he had been flushed out by a buddy who was walking the other side of the thicket.

I always thought they were scrawny but this one was a grayish white color and about the size of a real large german shepherd...... It scared the bejesus out of me.

[Straight Vermonter]

I was told several times that Coyotes get crossed up with domesticated dogs out here in the Midwest. Don’t know how true although.

We have coydogs here in Vermont. I'm not sure that we even have any true coyotes here any longer.

[FreedomPoster]

That is one really wolf-y looking coyote.

If I lived somewhere rural, I’d probably break down and splurge on some NVGs to take out coyotes and such.

[LongWayHome]

Most of the coyotes here in New England are part wolf these days. They did a DNA test on one in NH and found out it was over 80% wolf DNA.

[BCR #226]

That’s what concerns me. Our GSD and the King Shepherd in the back of the neighborhood have been killing the yotes around here. The coyotes have attacked a couple of dogs in the neighborhood and a few of the less than intelligent cats have gone missing. There are deer remains in the woods with obvious signs of predation.

Our GSD Max hates the yotes with a passion. He’s good with every dog in the neighborhood but yotes he kills on sight. The ones we have around here are about 35-40 pounds.

[Straight Vermonter]

Now that we have the catamounts [as they’re called here],

I thought Vermont was the only place that called them catamounts.

[samtheman]

The deer population in some of the eastern states is extremely high, offering a new niche for the coyote-wolf to feed on.

[FreedomPoster]

We’re going to North Georgia this weekend to stay at some friends’ mountain house. This thread is a good reminder why to stay armed even out in the country.

[knittnmom]

The coyote is “one of the animals that will be left at the end, like the cockroaches, raccoons, and rabbits,” Bozarth said.”

You know, I've often heard the bit about cockroaches surviving whatever destroys us, but I have to wonder if that little factoid comes from the same people who discount the effect of the Sun when they discuss global warming.

[Ax]

Soon after my run-in with Bre’r Coyote, there was an article about them in the local paper. It said that the eastern coyote is bigger than his western counterpart.

[runninglips]

Since the wolves are presumably molesting the female coyotes, they should do what they would do with humans. Eliminate the male wolves. Since male wolves come from female wolves, maybe they should be eliminated also.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

I thought she preferred to be called Liz?

But no. I didn’t mean to leave her out of the party.

Just so long as Em’s being Chooted, I don’t care who pulls the trigger.

[jazusamo]

Even though the Fish and Wildlife people will tell you that wolves are extinct in Oregon

They're not extinct in OR any longer. You may have read about them in NE OR and there's been articles in the Medford Mail Trib recently about a lone wolf from that area that has trekked to Southern OR.

The last I read which was a week or so ago it has been hanging out in Douglas County not far from the Jackson County line. It has a tracking collar, that's why they know where it came from and keep up on his location.

I've seen many coyotes in OR while hunting but they've always been the standard size ones, I don't doubt there are some larger ones and probably the chances are better that a few have mated with dogs.

[jazusamo]

I’ve read that some refer to them as coywolves in the NE and Canada.

[Boogieman]

Yeah, they are not thinking things through. They say it because the roaches can survive the radiation, but they forget that they are completely dependant on humans for survival. German roaches would be worse off than German Shepherds if we were gone.

[Boogieman]

We have Coyotes in Chicago. They live in the freight train yards and forest preserves and travel along the railroad tracks.

[Daffynition]

Apology accepted. :D

Choot, didn't want you to appear to be baconuvinistic.

[Salamander]

I would sincerely advise you to *not* let the dog out alone.

Domestic dogs often mistake coyotes for ‘normal’ dogs but coyotes never mistake *dinner* for anything.

My Dobe just doesn’t like *any* strange dogs around and the Ibizans, being “primitive dogs” themselves, know there’s something ‘wrong’ about coyotes and go into hunt mode but other “nicer” dogs/more domestic breeds could make a deadly error in judgement.

I don’t know your firearm laws but if you can, at least chuck a rock at it next time and yell or something to make sure it understands you *are* a threat to it.

If I find one sniffing around near my goats, I’m going to have a really cool fluffy tail ornament for my truck antenna.

:)