Looks like a well-fed coyote. Usually they have that half-starved Wiley Coyote look.
Lots of dogs and cats around people.
It depends on their environment, of course. If they're in a wilderness area, they have to work for their meals. Near the suburbs, they have plenty of trash cans to raid and pets to capture.
not to mention very well groomed as well.
They also eat the mice from these open spaces. Well, they will eat anything I think. They are nature's garbage cans.
They came in from the south, the Peninsula, where there is even MORE open land and green space.
They are very shy and smart and make themselves very scarce so as not to scare away any of their prey...our garbage.
Hah, they probably even know which can has the garbage by the color, light to dark grays, as most canines are color blind.
I HAVEN'T heard any of them howling at the moon. Of course, there's so much fog all year round that baying at the moon would be the exception, not the rule.
However, the neighborhood’s feral cat population has suddenly, inexplicably declined.
Just so you don’t lose a bar bet, it’s Wile E. Coyote...not Wiley Coyote.