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[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Stan Hillis

Evidently the opinion of the same kind of experts who denied there are panthers in GA years ago, after i'd seen them alive. If "they" say the EC has developed through cross-breeding with other canine species, I wonder why did it stop doing that?

I have personally trapped animals that I am sure were a cross between a dog (German Shepherd, in one particular case I remember) and a coyote. They don't even act like a coyote in a steel trap. A coyote turns it's head away from you when you approach it in a trap. A coy-dog is aggressive and growls and bares it's teeth at you. JME.

SRH

I dunno Stan - Did I ever say they had stopped doing that?

I will say though Stan that we are far, far less likely to see a coyote that exhibits any "coy-dog" attributes than we are likely to see a coyote that looks like a plain ol' Eastern Coyote. The one I pictured looks like a lot of other blonde Eastern Coyotes I have seen, admittedly she is the biggest I've seen.

I will say that a lot of the guys I know both in VT as well as Maine and NH refer to all coyotes as "coy dogs" just like a lot of folks say "fisher cats" and "Canadian geese."





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