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I guess that would be interesting to find out, most of us know what yote x dogs look like, and wolf x dogs.......... would be curious to know what yote x wolf looked like.
While reading on the internet about the Catahouls Leopard Dogs the article stated that the Catahoula is part American Red Wolf and part Spanish Mastiff; neither of which is in existence today.
Previously in this thread a few people stated that we have Red Wolves and that the government has tried introducing them and that they are thriving here.
So my question is which is true? Are they still in existence or not?
Having hunted for 24 years all over Georgia and never having seen a Red Wolf here makes me a little skiptical about their existence. Is anyone here an authority on the American Red Wolf and if so, can you clear this up for me?
Have recently been reading a history book of Gilmer County. The book contains a reference to the fact that Gilmer, Fannin, and Union County at one time had a "Wolf Tax". These funds enabled a bounty to be paid for every wolf scalp. The scalp was required to contain both ears intact before they would pay.
This effort to eliminate the Wolf was brought about by his predation upon livestock, with emphasis on sheep. Early settlers in isolated areas of the mountaineous terrain were highly dependant upon their sheep. They were sheared annually and the wool was washed, carded, and spun into thread which was then woven on hand looms into cloth. Clothing for the entire family was sewn from the hand woven material.
When and if a surplus of sheep developed, the family would butcher one for the family table. With constant predation from wolves, families seldom ever ate mutton.
No mention was made as to whether the critters were Red Wolves or Timber Wolves. Could have been either or both.
There are in existence today many local names which relate back to pioneer times. Many of the names suggest the existence of Wolves in former times. Examples of these are: Wolf Pen Branch, Wolf Pen Gap, and Wolf Pen Mountain. Wolf Pens were built of notched logs with a trap door. They were covered with logs as well as floored with logs to prevent scatching out. They were baited with the remains of a deer or any fresh meat.
The Wolf was apparently eliminated from even the wilderness areas before 1900. The early Mountain Men were a determined people.
Vernon
Actually the native americans knew about cougars and even black panthers in GA. Seeing a black panther to them meant "death"Cougars have been in Ga.since the mid 60s. Never seen a bear or wolf. There was a bear spotted near Thomson today. I heard the report on radio station.BB
A red wolf looks so much like a coyote, it ain`t funny. At a glance, they could pass for each other.
Yes, they are still in existence, North Carolina, I believe, has some.
Chehaw Park (outside of Albany) has a pair of red wolves for breeding purposes and I have spent a good bit of time looking at them. For the life of me I can't tell the difference between them and some of the big coyotes I have either trapped or shot over the years in sowega. I have killed many a coyote out west too, and the ones I have killed in Ga. as a whole look a heck of alot more like those two red wolves at chehaw than any of the coyotes I have killed out west. I think that the coyotes we have here either have a heck of alot of red wolf blood in them (interbreeding with coyotes is what is causing them to go extinct more than anything else) or they are red wolves. It is just that the tree huggers have too much invested in wolves being endangered, if folks thought they were common nobody would donate any money. It really doesn't matter too much to me, from what I have read lately, the red wolf is a recent genetic creation and now they are thinking that they are basically a grey wolf/coyote hybrid. Who knows. There really isn't any pure red wolf genes to compare the sowega brush wolves to.
i have a picture of 2 red wolves my Grandpa killed back in the late 60s and early 70s in Newton County Texas (Louisiana border). Those were the last 2 known red wolves to ever be killed in that part of the country. I've seen the pictures and there is a major difference in a full grown red wolf and a coyote. The red wolves are 3 times bigger than any southeastern coyote
A red wolf looks so much like a coyote, it ain`t funny. At a glance, they could pass for each other.
Yes, they are still in existence, North Carolina, I believe, has some.