Prairie Wolf

[AGeese]

So, wolves are usually pretty big. I knew a high content wolfdog. His head was as long as my forearm plus my hand/finger. Hopefully that gives you a general idea

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This was my aunt's wolf-sheppard rescue. She had two other wolf mixes I'll have to confirm the breeds. I don't think what I saw was near this big, so maybe a coyote hybrid? The coloring really threw me off or I would have called it a coyote.

 

[WIchickMama]

Was it too big to he a grey fox? Bushy tail?

We have coyotes hear, you can hear them calling at nice. We also have fox, much smaller and bushy tails are distinctive traits for the fox

 

[AGeese]

Was it too big to he a grey fox? Bushy tail?

We have coyotes hear, you can hear them calling at nice. We also have fox, much smaller and bushy tails are distinctive traits for the fox

We do have coyotes, but they haven't started coming through yet, I bet soon. I have only seen red foxes so that would be new for me.

 

[AGeese]

I failed to report, for the last few weeks, they rally on the hills in the dark after sundown and other times in the middle of the night you can hear the howels and cries.

 

[rockymountain]

Spied a dark grey coyote the other day down the road mid day. The coat was a blend of dark grey with some lighter grey and or darker spots, hard to recall now as I was driving by and it was heading into the field. With the ears so large and the body long, but not so filled out, I first thought fox, but it was too large, and too dark.

Any other Midwesterners to chime in on this?

The is a coyote from the West very large, and they rotate from different areas but do create havoc on the young deer. Usually killing two a week. Usually deer can out run them but these are very large. Had thoughts of been a hybrid wolf-coy but was told no.

 

[rockymountain]

The is a coyote from the West very large, and they rotate from different areas but do create havoc on the young deer. Usually killing two a week. Usually deer can out run them but these are very large. Had thoughts of been a hybrid wolf-coy but was told no.

I have German Shepard and my vet would put him on a diet at this weight. The West is in denial of a wolf-coyotee mix in our area. Some people locally swear they are around.

 

[AGeese]

Who knows what happens out in nature when no one is looking.

 

[AGeese]

I have German Shepard and my vet would put him on a diet at this weight. The West is in denial of a wolf-coyotee mix in our area. Some people locally swear they are around.

Well I'm starting to really wonder. Since I posted this my neighbor spied two dark coyotes the other day. He said they were dark almost black. I've never seen a dark coyote other than the one I described originally and certainly not a black one.

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

Coyotes are not native to Florida. We used to have a native black wolf species and red wolves, which look a lot like coyote hybrids. Both went extinct here in the early and mid 1900s.

Coyotes were brought into the Florida peninsula piecemeal by fox hunters in the mid 1900s to train their fox hounds on and also expanded into Florida’s panhandle naturally before the turn of the 21st century. When I was a kid in north central Florida my grandpa would point out these large, mutant-looking, German shepards and call them coyotes. They were identifiable not by their appearance but by their strange gate. He was a state wildlife officer and the state was trying to keep the new arrivals under control. Which failed.

Today coyotes are common in Florida and they look like classic western coyotes. Some
may make it to 60lb but not larger I’d say. Most are smaller, usually a lean 40lbs. I think the coyotes we saw when I was a kid were coydog hybrids made from the first coyotes here not finding suitable mates among their own kind. Now there’s enough coyotes in Florida that they don’t have to go outside their breed to reproduce.

We also have Carolina dogs here (American dingos), but that’s another topic. I just saw a feral Carolina dog a couple of weeks ago.

 

[NanaK]

I've never seen a dark coyote other than the one I described originally and certainly not a black one.

I don't know about your area but there are many reports of black coyotes in NC.

https://www.ncwildlife.org/Learning/Species/Mammals/Coyote2

https://nchuntandfish.com/forums/index.php?threads/black-coyote.47622/

https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/l...anism/83-a208d46f-3cbc-4901-822f-ad7706e2102b

https://www.charlottestories.com/3-...rth Carolina,says Candid Critters on Facebook.