She is a pretty good example of one of the color variations of the Eastern Coyote. I posted these pics on FB yesterday and have had hundreds of comments from folks calling it a yellow lab, a husky, a shepherd-yellow lab mix, a coywolf, a coydog, and a few more but people are adamant that it can't be a coyote because it is too pretty, too fluffy, too big, too well-fed... ad nauseum. I have seen coyotes that look just like this in Vermont where I spend about all of my hunting time. A trapper there trapped a 64 lb. female that looked just like this one about 4 years ago. He said the blonde ones don't fetch as much $$.
In any case, just for the heck of it I looked up the terms coy-wolf, coywolf, coy-dog, coydog and any variation I could think of and they all came back with basically the same thing - those terms are not scientific but represent the thoughts of rural folks who attempt to describe coyotes with the attributes of the Eastern Coyote, which over thousands of years has developed through cross-breeding with other canine species to what it is today. So, it is what it is - a big blonde Eastern Coyote.
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Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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