Seen a very big coyote, maybe a wolf/yote?

[1911crazy]

At 12:30 pm this larger coyote came out of my neighbors yard heading into the bottoms.   Its the same size as my yellow lad only skinny.   I gave the yote warning call and it stopped 25' away from me long enough to shoot it if i had a weapon.   I don't know guys/gals they look really big here now.  I've seen them bigger in VT.   They did say the wolves are crossing the frozen rivers in canada/ny state and there inter breeding with our little yotes.   Well there in southern New England now.   I have to carry a gun now while on the mower.  We also had a bear roaming around at 2pm in the afternoon in my neighbors yard too.  I have wild america in my back yard now.

[streak]

Nothing like adding a little excitement to your world!
 
 Those yotes have a bad habit with also mating with large domestic dogs which
we call "coydogs" or hybrids. Some of these offsprings can be extremely large and dangerous! I have seen some of these in N.W. Louisiana and E.Texas.
 A buddy of mine shot three which were wolf looking in appearance and probably weighed between 110-125 pounds. These were shot out of a group of five!

[JonnyReb]

 Exciting to run accross a critter like that in the woods, I have just once.  I live on the edge of charlottes city limits, in the county but just barely. Theres about 2500 forested acres around me as the result of a large chemical co. having aquired it long ago. I've a 3/4 mile 4 wheeler trail on our land out back and I hunt its circumference. On a rare snow day about 10 years ago I stalked this trail looking for deer and as I finished the 3/4 mile loop, saw a very large, black dog thing lying on its belly 50 yards down the trail in front of me. It was in thick brush but stood out like a sore thumb against the snow. I stopped breathing and sighted down on it in the same instant and for just a moment held the crosshairs on the head of a yellow eyed wolf. It began backing up immediately and through the 12ga. scope I watched a tall skinny full grown wolf/dog run flat out across the vally and down the other side of my trail. It DID look back several times and when it ran past my deer camera, jumped about 2 feet in the air when the flash went. I couldn't have been luckier to have 35mm photos to prove this story to friends and family. I'd have to dig them up and take a picture of a picture but if pressed I can prove it. The animal was bigger than my 90lb german shepherd, much taller, shaggy longish fur and looked underweight. Long knobby kneed legs and bright yellowish eyes. If it was crossed with dog or coyote i'd be surprised. My theory is that it was a pet wolf that got to be a problem and they dumped it. In any event it gave me one heck of a thrill and I feel like I got to share a primal shock not many have gotten to experience. Glad that critter came to see me:-) jeff

[streak]

Last thursday afternoon, I was out walking my bloodhound in the neighborhood and went up one street that comes to a dead end where a small wooded area begans which is surrounded by homes and a girls rehab center. As we neared the dead end down an open path through the woods a 3/4 grown coyote came out into the path opening about 40-45 yards from me! My bloodhound saw it and started that bloodhound " bellaring"! The yote just stood there and looked at us and then slowly turned and went and hopped up on a log pile and stood and watched us. To make a long story short, this same scenario repeated itself with four more coyotes coming out and doing the same thing!! Well the 5th one just came out and set down in the path and stayed there, so we left. I am assuming that this is a litter of a larger coyote that I saw about two weeks ago in the same pathway. None of these are araid of dogs or humans! Which tends to put me on guard!! As these yotes get older and bolder, I can see trouble developing. This is located in the city limits of Aurora, Colorado. Wildlife and Fisheries have signs up warning of coyotes the area and have a large trap set up but it has been set for a long time and nothing has been caught.