We are starting to see LOTS of coyote in my area, whereas we never had them a few years ago. Seen then a couple times, skirting through my (large) backyard, along my woods. I plan on hunting them some next season. Anyway....
A week ago I let one of my dogs out (a female GSD in season), first thing in the morning. As went down the basement stairs to let her back in, I looked out the window and there was a large dog standing right in the driveway, a few feet from my car (and about 40 ft from me).
***...Thats not a dog, its a coyote! Now if he'd been in the back of my yard (about 100 yrds to the woods)I would've thought my eyes were playing tricks on me. This thing was BIG. But because I could compare it to the heights of the cars, I wanna say it was easily as big as my male GSD, who goes 115 lbs.
He'd heard me and was looking in my direction, stood there for a few seconds then trotted off, no time to get and load a gun. I figure he came out so far out of the woods, because he smelled the female in heat. (But I have a 6 ft stockade fence.)
Opinions?
Was it a REALLY big coyote?
Was it a Coy-dog?
No wolves around here that I know of, and it was colored brown like a coyote.
We were having a heavy snowfall, and by the time I got the other dogs situated, got suited up, and went out to plow snow, his tracks were gone, so I couldn't get a read from pawprints.
A week ago I let one of my dogs out (a female GSD in season), first thing in the morning. As went down the basement stairs to let her back in, I looked out the window and there was a large dog standing right in the driveway, a few feet from my car (and about 40 ft from me).
***...Thats not a dog, its a coyote! Now if he'd been in the back of my yard (about 100 yrds to the woods)I would've thought my eyes were playing tricks on me. This thing was BIG. But because I could compare it to the heights of the cars, I wanna say it was easily as big as my male GSD, who goes 115 lbs.
He'd heard me and was looking in my direction, stood there for a few seconds then trotted off, no time to get and load a gun. I figure he came out so far out of the woods, because he smelled the female in heat. (But I have a 6 ft stockade fence.)
Opinions?
Was it a REALLY big coyote?
Was it a Coy-dog?
No wolves around here that I know of, and it was colored brown like a coyote.
We were having a heavy snowfall, and by the time I got the other dogs situated, got suited up, and went out to plow snow, his tracks were gone, so I couldn't get a read from pawprints.