This IS a coyote, right? - Page 2

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Originally Posted by MonsterMom 

Holy Moley! That's the biggest coyote I've ever seen. Are you sure it's not a little wolf? Ha! Around here the coyotes are not nearly so statuesque - they're smaller and more sneaky looking (if that's a thing, lol).

Hi MonsterMom,

I'm in Ontario Canada and we have lots of the up here.  And they're that big.  He's well fed and not mangy at all but he's definitely a coyote!

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Originally Posted by GoChick 

yeah...I don't hate predators either, part of nature, but he grabbed one of my chickens inside my fenced in area, in broad daylight, with two of my dogs less than 50 ft from him... and was absolutely not afraid of me, when I went running after him... that's why I put up the trailcam, trying to figure out where he's coming from...

 

I heard Eastern coyotes are bigger than western ones, but still, this one looks huge!!!

 

here's another pic, he's "marking his territory" exactly where my 95 lb collie marked his...

 

 

the rock in the foreground would be a good place for a trap :) a little red fox pee would cause an investigation, if the tree he is in front of were north of the rock  the northeast side of the rock would be the "right" place about 12-14" away from the rock with a "guide stick" or 2 kina under the edge of the rock is better then just on top of it for the pee

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Originally Posted by Birdo 

Yes, that does look just like a coyote. Did a google image search just to make sure.  Same nose, ears and tail.  They are moving farther and farther east.  Where are you located?  I would imagine they're getting heavier and bushier in the east than in the southwest.

we have them in Va beach at the atlantic ocean and in currituck countie NC as well

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Originally Posted by TinTennessee 

Yep that's a yote. If you get a shot at it take it. It will continue to come back as stated above. Here in Tennessee they are considered a nuisance animal, there is no season on them. You can kill one any time you see one.

I was going to say that too. Here recently at night they wake me up with all their erie barking/howling(ish)/screaming...ugh it's plain creepy. We just found a den not too far away and it's flipping me out with them being so close! It stresses the dog out too, she will pace back and forth at night and if I go outside to my car at night when they are howling, she will bark at me until I go back inside...she was bought as a chicken gaurdian...but she's definitely a people gaurdian

That's the biggest one I've ever seen!  Definitely not the skinny, mangy-type coyote I saw many times camping in New Mexico. 

Hope you get him.

Eastern Coyotes are genetically different (and visibly so) than their western counterparts. It's been proven that they have interbred with wolves in Canada before they expanded southward into the US. It's why our eastern 'yotes look so big.
 

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Originally Posted by Birdo 

Hey NC folk - There's a novel by Barbara Kingsolver called Prodigal Summer, about southern Appalachia farms and wilderness, and is somewhat centered around coyotes moving east into this habitat.  Pretty neat.  I just love this part of the country.  Really good climate for raising the birdies.

That was a great book!  But, it was about Wolves, not Coyotes.  :-)