Coy Dog- In case you've never seen one. - Graphic Pic -

[australorpchick]

I liked the sound of coyotes, until one night when we were camping and we heard one near our campsite, followed by the rest of them surrounding our campsite. Then I didn't like it much anymore.

 

[mandelyn]

We have a stray dog male, intact, running loose. About everyone on this end of the street has tried to catch it, but it's VERY people shy, but not dog aggressive. Some kind of pit mix. AC has set traps for it, no luck. People feed it, but can't ever get close enough to it. It chases cats and wildlife.

He better not take up with the Coyotes! Coyote are around here, but I don't think they're in the immediate area he roams. But they're thick as thieves around the city.

One night in Indiana my brother and his friend shot about 6 without even looking for them. They started with a coon, and I guess the scent of that baited the coyotes.

I've never seen a coy-dog, but I know you can't get 20 miles down the interstate without seeing 2-3 starved looking roadkill coyote.

 

[Julie_A]

I've seen people hunt them online... call them up and kill them. Always wanted to try that. I know you'd have to have several people and good guns.

Back in the day, my husband's family had terrible coyote trouble. Coyotes ate their dog, etc. anything they could get their mouths on including watermelons. They took their tractor with the front end loader and parked it in the woods.

Two guys were left in the bucket, with it all the way up. From their vantage point, they were able to pick off several.

Bet it was scary sitting up their, pitch black night, hearing the coyotes come.

 

[deb1]

I've been hearing about coydogs a lot lately.

Awhile back I had read an article that I can no longer find. It stated that coydogs could not exist.

Was the article wrong? It would be interesting if there were coydogs. Are people purposely mating their dogs to coyotes?

 

[Julie_A]

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Deb1, I'm not sure.

I live in a very rural area in south Alabama. I have seen two of these things with my own eyes. One in a live trap. Looked like a coyote, except merled with clear blue eyes.

Another that bore an extremely striking resemblance to a lost male dog who was a dear pet. Our area's food chain is a little out of whack due to the fact that there's a huge landfill within a mile of our farm. All an animal would have to do is dig a couple of inches under the fill dirt to find an unlimited bounty of food. Maybe they didn't eat my dog because they had plenty of food. Maybe he looked enough like them to run with them. I'll never know.

All that I can pass along is what I've seen with my own two eyes. Upon close inspection, that coy dog I posted a pic of had white spots on the same areas of his body as my dog and had the same distinct merling on his legs and feet that my dog had.

 

[Julie_A]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coydog

If this animal truly the puppy of my dog, he'd be a dogote instead of a coyote. Doing more investigation...

 

[Julie_A]

http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/coydog.htm

http://www.catchitwild.com/catch_it_wild_wildlife_removal_051.htm
Lots of pics

 

[Tala]

So maybe people need to spay/neuter their dogs??? I'm sorry if you lost a pet, but if it was cut then there wouldn't be any breeding going on.

Just sayin.

 

[Julie_A]

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No doubt. If he'd been neutered... but he was my parent's dog. I was a kid. As an adult, my dogs have all been altered.

I doubt that the number coydogs born even remotely compares to the number of discarded puppies produced by backyard breeders farming out popular breeds or city mutts, raising pups behind dumpsters.

 

[Julie_A]

Also, I didn't mean this to be some "poor me, I lost my dog" post. Sorry if it sounded that way. I just thought this animal I found dead by the road looked interesting. He could also have been some weird-colored coyote.