Remember that coyote on ebay that looked like a dog? Look...

Bill, let me first start by saying I understand the position you hold with this post, its just what it is. A discussion to try and figure out what this animal is. Ii found that picture by doing a search for Wolf dogs or Wolf Hybrid. Look at the 2 side by side and the markings are identical. Look up breeders for these type of "Wolves" or "Dogs" and they are everywhere. Some of them turn out to be good pets others are not. Suppose "one" or "two" were set loose by owners who couldnt handle them anymore, maybe they found themselves in front of a hunters gun or caught in trappers set. Why couldnt it be a hybrid? I think it is. Do you know the location where both of these animals came from? Same state or many states apart?

 

It would be interesting to find out if it is legal in those states to own such an animal. I know it is illegal in CT.

 

I guess my question would be 'what is everyone's definition of a coy-dog'? Some might say that it's 50% coyote and 50% domestic dog. My definition is any coyote with some domestic dog genes. Maybe this critter's great-great-granddad was a dog and the 'odd color' genes are just showing up now.

I do believe it's at least part coyote....the red color and black stripe on the front legs say coyote to me.

 

the only problem with that is that those are also dog markings and i don't think this argument would ever be solved even if we did hear how, where, ect on where this animal came from the other thing is it just resembles a husky so closely and the thing with that is huskies are one of the more independent and free minded dogs around, there hard to train and if they feel like it they'll run for miles and then just show up again, i know its happened with mine, hes gotten out and i picked him up at a farm two and a half miles away and he'd only been out for an hour or so, what if he'd came past a snare line without a collar somebody may say yote and he'd be in somebodys den collecting dust, to prove my point here is a picture of the dog in my house

 

What about the 100s of dogs here in Alaska that are NOT part yote that look EXACTLY like that. They are Alaskan Huskies and I'm sure they don't just live in Alaska! So this may or may not be a dog... don't look too close at these pics, one might be a yote!




Huntress, LOTS of our pups up here have the red stripe, what I think is happening is someone see a nice looking loose animal and WANTS it to be a yote so it can be a stunning mount.

 

Bill, I agree to a point, but if the yotes down there are so mixed, how does one know what they're getting? I wouldn't mind trapping/hunting yotes, but not someone's pet that might have gotten out once or twice... feral is different. All those dogs you see above are Alaskan Huskies from one kennel. I guarantee if some people saw some of these dogs running loose they would say YOTE down there in the states. Up here, it's 'catch the loose sled dog' if you can. Oh, and most of those dogs above have run the Iditarod more than once

 

It's always going to be a 'who knows' thing, but I'd pass to shoot a coyote that looked like a dog, traooing is different, you ARE up close and can tell more.

I love the amber eyed canines, and have several of them myself.... I'll have to see if I can find a close up and post a pic.

 

Well I hope I never get one in my traps where I can't tell the difference. All the dogs I've caught had collars and were returned to their owners.
The only definitive answer would come from DNA testing I guess.

 

Absolutely NOT a COYOTE...

 

HAd a fellow bring in a Spitz dog, you klnow thw little white dogs, he claimed it was a artic fox. He never came back with a deposit so it was canned.

 

if u look at a husky they have a longer snout than a coyote i would have to say that the pic that is posted here is a husky

 

Hmmm maybe an alaskan malamute cross - check out this pic

www.pups4sale.com.au/alaskan_malamute_02a.jpg

 

If I found that in a trap Id be thinking catch & release unless behavior or smell told me otherwise.

 

i think that'd be what hopefully everybody would be thinking, because that first pic i could almost for sure say siberian husky i mean you won't see a coyote like that, its not a coyote, even the pic terry posted looks like some mut and not a coyote what happened to common sense guys, even what ever remote place you live yox there is still gona be somebody with a dog, i've heard of color phases but species changes don't happen you don't shoot a dog that is suddenly a yote, whoever had that mounted or mounted it had to know there was something off, this isn't even a good argument because there is no coyotes like that and lots of dogs like that so it looks like a dog its probably a dog, but come on this could be argued forever and it wouldn't matter because the dogs already dead and people would still shoot dogs and call them coyotes its just plain ridiculous