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Title: Whatcha think?
Post by: West Augusta on September 26, 2017, 06:50:40 PM
Coywolf or coydog?

(http://i66.tinypic.com/ff3409.png)

Either way he's big.  He ran through my backyard Sunday morning while I was on the back porch drinking coffee.
Hope to see him again when I have a gun.  That pelt will look good on the wall.
My game camera at the top of the hill got this picture.
Title: Whatcha think?
Post by: Happy on September 26, 2017, 06:54:23 PM
I am thinking part dog. Either way good luck and I hope you get him.

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Post by: HookedonHooks on September 26, 2017, 07:01:20 PM
Definitely some doggo in there! Either way, will be a purty pelt.
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Post by: guesswho on September 26, 2017, 07:30:15 PM
Cool looking critter.

I know it's not, but zoom in on the end of the log in the bottom right.   It looks like a dogs face.
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Post by: outdoors on September 26, 2017, 08:34:38 PM
DOESNT HAVE A COLLAR
GREEN FLAG .........
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Post by: idratherb on September 26, 2017, 09:08:59 PM
thats cool for sure
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Post by: larry9988 on September 26, 2017, 09:14:45 PM
Kind of has Collie markings, but looks like a coyote too.
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Post by: mgm1955 on September 27, 2017, 12:14:44 AM
Cool looking for sure.
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Post by: KentuckyHeadhunter on September 27, 2017, 02:10:09 PM
It's a foxcoyotecollie.  Very rare. :TooFunny:
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Post by: HookedonHooks on September 27, 2017, 03:25:33 PM
More often than not local coyote populations have the intermingled lab mutt, Heinz 57, or did at some point, and this is what throws those white and black fur patterns. Coyotes are dogs, and that's just a nice looking coyote.
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Post by: wvspitndrum on September 27, 2017, 04:25:06 PM
Hope you get a crack at him !! He would look awesome on the wall !!
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Post by: renegade19 on September 27, 2017, 06:21:25 PM
He does look cool.  I see coyote, no wolf.  Whack him if you get a chance.
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Post by: falltoms on September 27, 2017, 07:39:08 PM
100 percent coyote.  They come in many shades of color.
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Post by: Farmboy27 on September 27, 2017, 08:14:36 PM
Take it from a coyote hunter. 100% coyote. A really cool looking coyote, but coyote nonetheless. When it comes to hybrids, which are actually very rare most places, body definition and build are dead give aways. Color and markings don't mean much on an animal that comes in as many variations as a coyote. I've seen them from jet black to almost snow white and every thing in between. The build, stance, and over all appearance of this (if you ignore the color) is all coyote. Best of luck getting it. Definitely a unique color and would make a great mount or pelt!
Title: Re: Whatcha think?
Post by: g8rvet on September 28, 2017, 05:16:42 PM
Quote from: HookedonHooks on September 27, 2017, 03:25:33 PM
More often than not local coyote populations have the intermingled lab mutt, Heinz 57, or did at some point, and this is what throws those white and black fur patterns. Coyotes are dogs, and that's just a nice looking coyote.

My understanding is that dogs are wolves (or their descendants).  They are all very closely related (as evidenced by hybrids being fertile - ie an  and horse offspring is not).  DNA markers are more unique in the coyote than the dog or wolf.  Genetically speaking a German Shepard is more closely related to the wolf than the Chihuahua.  I don't know for a fact, but I do not believe that is true for a coyote. 
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Post by: mtns2hunt on September 28, 2017, 06:28:59 PM
I would not shoot him until snow on the ground. That's what I did with my red coyote. Waited two years and passed on him twice during warmer weather. Had about given up on him when he poped out of the treeline 70 yards out. All red but he turned into a sort of strawberry blond after the taxidermist finished with him. Still nice mount.
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Post by: tomstopper on October 01, 2017, 08:02:40 AM
I would guess that it's a coyote. Just my 2ยข