Place Your Bets… Coydog?

[Florida Bullfrog]

No literal betting of course. Just bragging rights if you’re right.

This is Toph, my new LGD. She’s supposed to be a cross between a Pyrenees and an Aussie. However, the more I observe her, the more I suspect she’s a coyote hybrid. The mother is confirmed an Australian Shepard that had access to both a male Great Pyrenees and wild coyotes.

Her appearance speaks for itself. I’ll answer any questions about her behavior in the thread.

 

[tripletfeb]

You say the mother had access to a great pyrenees father as well as wild coyotes. What makes you think the coyotes would have bred her? And the coyotes must not have been around the great pyrenees father because I would think he would have killed them or at least made them leave the area. My vote is the pyrenees is the father and the coyotes had nothing to do with her

 

[No Coop No Problem]

Nice name. I would bet on the Pyranees but the size should make the father obvious soon enough

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

You say the mother had access to a great pyrenees father as well as wild coyotes. What makes you think the coyotes would have bred her? And the coyotes must not have been around the great pyrenees father because I would think he would have killed them or at least made them leave the area. My vote is the pyrenees is the father and the coyotes had nothing to do with her

Coyotes aren’t often picky about the canine-females-in-heat they breed. Coydogs were extremely common in Florida in the 80s and the 90s when coyotes were still rare enough in the state that they couldn’t find females of their own kind.

Now they’re plenty of coyote females. So it wouldn’t have been out of necessity. But perhaps out of simple opportunity. The male Pyrenees didn’t necessarily have access to the Aussie outside of his own paddock he is confined to. The impression I have is that the Pyrenees is kept in a particular area and the Aussie is allowed to free-range.

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

Nice name. I would bet on the Pyranees but the size should make the father obvious soon enough

I forgot to add that I’m going to swab her DNA this evening and send it off. We’ll know the answer at some point so that’s why I thought it would be a fun bet.

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

Also, let me add that its a pretty normal thing for people to allow total free-range of their dogs in North Florida. Confirmed coydogs do happen in the locality from time to time. But the ones I have seen in a litter of domestic-born pups obviously looked like coyotes. Coydogs I’ve seen and hunted in the wild look like mutant German Shepards. I’ve not seen one with floppy ears (that I knew to be a coydog). But doing some googling has shown some that look eerily like my pup.

 

[GirlsHuntToo]

@Pampered chicken girl knows a lot about Great Pyrenees.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I think she’s probably mixed with the Pyrenees.

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

Not to be mean who lets there in heat female dog outside alone or not in a enclosed area..
Id say the pry is the father. But.

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

Not to be mean who lets there in heat female dog outside alone or not in a enclosed area..
Id say the pry is the father. But.

… most everyone in the rural South.

Heck, my little female bulldog was in heat while nursing 2 venomous snake bites and fighting a wild hog (which killed my previous old hound BTW that this new pup is replacing). It was up to my male bulldog to tend her while she was galavanting the woods. That’s how it goes in Swamplife.

That’s her in heat, between snake bites and prior to the hog battle. Maybe her pups will be bionic super dogs, mutated by the pit viper venom.