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Coyote or Cross?
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humdandy
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Looks like a pet to me.......
1eyefishing
...just joking, seriously.
Wow!
Looks like coyote crossbred with golden retriever in that last shot.
I think coyotes have been known to breed with dogs, particularly feral ones...
Looks like coyote crossbred with golden retriever in that last shot.
I think coyotes have been known to breed with dogs, particularly feral ones...
ryanh487
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he does kind of look like a very healthy blonde coyote. pictures are a little blurry and hard to tell though.
shakey gizzard
Senior Member
Odd looking fer sure!
That one looks to be a coytriever. 
The several DNA studies done so far usually show the typical eastern yote to be about an average of 65% coyote, 25% wolf, and 10% dog.
tree cutter 08
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I missed one with my bow several years ago that had to be have German Shepard or a husky mix.
Yes we all know about your wolf studies and don’t need to start that debate again. I would say that one looks more like 50% coyote 50% dog but either way it shouldnt be in the GA woods.
blood on the ground
Cross threading is better than two lock washers.
Very unique looking yote.
Why not? I like wolves.
Not my wolf studies-it's the biologists who have been doing them. And there is no debate that I know of-it's accepted scientific fact, verified again every time they do it. You seem to be the only one who disputes it for some reason,. I have no skin in it one way or the other, but I'd say DNA tells the tale, especially when study after study shows the same exact thing. Take it up with the scientists if you don't believe them, not me.
And, I agree with you completely on this particular one. Looks like a coyote/golden retriever cross.
I don’t dispute that coyotes have some wolf DNA in them. But so does every domestic dog you see, that doesn’t make them a wolf. The debate I was speaking of is the one we had where you and Nicodemus tried to tell me coyotes are good for the GA deer herd and are only here because the white man killed off the red wolves.
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No, domestic dogs do not show up wolf DNA. None. 0%. They show domestic dog DNA, unless it is a wolf/dog mix. Dogs and wolves are related, but their DNA is completely distinct and identifiable, just like we don't show chimpanzee DNA, even though our DNA is similar to it. Most eastern coyotes show all three types of DNA-coyote, wolf, and dog. Again, this is not me saying this. This is the verified and repeated findings of scientific studies on eastern coyotes. They apparently interbred with wolves and dogs on their way here. Even now, the red wolf restoration program in eastern NC is failing badly, partly because the wolves and coyotes keep interbreeding. They turned red wolves loose here in western NC for many years, too. And according to many scientists, a red wolf is nothing but a coyote/gray wolf hybrid to begin with.
And again, deer, coyotes, and various species of wolves have lived together here on this continent for hundreds of thousands of years. The only thing that ever wiped out the deer was people, not natural predators. And yotes spread east because of a combination of natural migration due to habitat change and an empty predator niche, and direct transport and release by humans.
Yes, that is exactly right. The 65-25-10% figure is just a rough average from yotes tested in the east. Some have a lot less wolf dna, or a lot more, or none. And like possum said, the yote in the OP in this thread appears to be about half dog.
