Coydog

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My dog, Cheyenne, his father is half German Shepard, half Eastern Coyote, his mom half Husky, half Coyote too. In case anyone is wondering...we all saw his pure grandma German Shepard disappear for 2 weeks when she was in heat and showed up with her coyote boyfriend!! Eastern coyotes are big here, about 60 lbs, reddish, more wolflike than coyote like. Cheyenne is very, very Intelligent, smart, crafty, sly and eats anything that flies, swims, waddles or runs..birds, toads, frogs, fish, bugs, mice squirrels.




Coyotes have also been known on occasion to mate with wolves, though this is less common than with dogs, due to the wolf's hostility to the coyote. The offspring, known as a coywolf, is generally intermediate in size to both parents, being larger than a pure coyote, but smaller than a pure wolf. A study showed that of 100 coyotes collected in Maine, 22 had half or more wolf ancestry, and one was 89 percent wolf. A theory has been proposed that the large eastern coyotes in Canada are actually hybrids of the smaller western coyotes and wolves that met and mated decades ago as the coyotes moved toward New England from their earlier western ranges. The Red Wolf is thought by certain scientists to be in fact a wolf/coyote hybrid rather than a unique species. Strong evidence for hybridization was found through genetic testing, which showed that red wolves have only 5% of their alleles unique from either gray wolves or coyotes. Genetic distance calculations have indicated that red wolves are intermediate between coyotes and gray wolves, and that they bear great similarity to wolf/coyote hybrids in southern Quebec and Minnesota. Analyses of mitochondrial DNA showed that existing red wolf populations are predominantly coyote in origin.

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• coydog
• dogote
• dog coyote
• coyote dog
• half dog
• hybrid dog
• wild dog
• eastern coyote
• red wolf
• wolf hybrid

[ChristianDogLover]

Beautiful coydog. We had a beautiful dog with coloring almost exactly like Cheyenne and a really bushy tail. We found her wandering around and took her in. The vet thought she was about four years old. She was an extremely sweet dog, but completely untrainable. Whenever she got loose she would make a round of the neighborhood and come home at her leisure. She liked to pounce in the tall grass (like a fox or coyote), and caught a couple pheasants once. I always wondered if she was a coydog.

[mozaikadezign]

@ChristianDogLover she sounds like a coydog! :))

[ChristianDogLover]

@mozaikadezign I'm thinking about posting a video and asking people's opinion. If I do, I'll leave a comment here so you can check it out. I'd appreciate your opinion.

[mozaikadezign]

@ChristianDogLover no problem, let me know when the video is up!

[kaianuanu]

the only part of her that looks like a coyote is her eyes

[mozaikadezign]

@kaianuanu we had a biologist studying the only 2 known Eastern Canadian Red Wolf packs (sub species of the gray wolf) in all of North America in the Gatineau National park reserve and he stopped by to see Cheyenne out of curiosity. HIS eyes, coat colour and teeth, size are an exact match 2 the rare red wolf, we had him genetically tested and he is a hybrid of eastern coyote, German Shepherd, the eastern coyotes are hybrids of red wolfesxcoyotes in this part of the world!

[ChristianDogLover]

@mozaikadezign Hey, the video's up. I don't know how to give you a link, so I'll just say it's called "Kaya, Coydog?". Let me know if you can't find it. Thanks again for your input.

[cyazuri]

thats a cool looking dog.

[Jenn21089]

my goodness! what an incredibly beautiful animal!!

[sherifam]

Coolest dog ever! I want a coydog!!!