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<blockquote data-quote="WildRose" data-source="post: 1338262" data-attributes="member: 30902"><p>Many generations of large wolf like and wolf hybrid dogs have gone feral and bred into the coyote population.</p><p></p><p>One of the biggest if not the biggest problem we've ever had in predator control is in trying to deal with the "coy dogs" or "coy wolves" as some call them.</p><p></p><p>The East Texas Red Wolf was supposed to have gone extinct in the 60's, our mammal collection in the biology dept where I went to college had the skin of one in the collection that I got to examine several times. I was shocked and amazed at how it resembled the large "coyotes" we saw in one small area centered around Throckmorton County throughout the seventies and into the 80's. Eventually those animals moved or were all killed off but I'll eat my hat if they weren't among the last of the red wolves still in existence and more than twenty years and hundreds of miles from where they were known to call home.</p><p></p><p>We're still finding new species and discovering that species thought long ago extinct still have wild populations in remote areas so there's no reason to believe you didn't see what you think you saw or that it might have just been the result of someone years ago dumping a litter of wolf hybrid pups some of which might have survived.</p><p></p><p>Although it is somewhat rare coyotes and wolves will absolutely interbreed with domestic dogs and lots of people have bought wolf hybrid shepherds and Huskies that eventually dumped them in the country when they became aggressive or too big to tolerate anymore.</p><p></p><p>We unfortunately end up putting down dozens of stray dogs roaming the country every year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WildRose, post: 1338262, member: 30902"] Many generations of large wolf like and wolf hybrid dogs have gone feral and bred into the coyote population. One of the biggest if not the biggest problem we've ever had in predator control is in trying to deal with the "coy dogs" or "coy wolves" as some call them. The East Texas Red Wolf was supposed to have gone extinct in the 60's, our mammal collection in the biology dept where I went to college had the skin of one in the collection that I got to examine several times. I was shocked and amazed at how it resembled the large "coyotes" we saw in one small area centered around Throckmorton County throughout the seventies and into the 80's. Eventually those animals moved or were all killed off but I'll eat my hat if they weren't among the last of the red wolves still in existence and more than twenty years and hundreds of miles from where they were known to call home. We're still finding new species and discovering that species thought long ago extinct still have wild populations in remote areas so there's no reason to believe you didn't see what you think you saw or that it might have just been the result of someone years ago dumping a litter of wolf hybrid pups some of which might have survived. Although it is somewhat rare coyotes and wolves will absolutely interbreed with domestic dogs and lots of people have bought wolf hybrid shepherds and Huskies that eventually dumped them in the country when they became aggressive or too big to tolerate anymore. We unfortunately end up putting down dozens of stray dogs roaming the country every year. [/QUOTE]
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