Thanks for the ping. I saw a wolf a couple miles from my farm last winter. I was driving, saw him cross the road. I pulled over to observe him as he trotted across the field.
2 years ago a huge top weight coyote was 200 feet from my kitchen window where I was doing dishes. I saw this huge furry thing, looked like a big dog with long legs and huge ear to head ratio. That ratio is how I identified it as a large coyote and not a small wolf. I went to the DNR site for that info. He was very large and it was unsettling. I took my gun with me outside for a while after that. I was worried he’d harass the horses. My husband had seen him a week before, but I didn’t “get it” until I saw for myself how big this thing was.
(End of coyote-wolf rant)
Takes DNA to tell what it is. IMO, in a great many cased a mutt. Since eastern wolves are coyote-wolf mutts, maybe a double mutt. Which makes enforcement of regulations, wolf federally protected, coyote, shoot anytime, interesting.