David, thanks for that info and link.  Very interesting stuff.  My understanding was completely inacurate.

Congrats on a nice Yote. Out west, they like house pets and I suspect they are no different back east.

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Congrats on a nice Yote. Out west, they like house pets and I suspect they are no different back east.

Same in the East, people keep their dogs up if they want to keep them and you don't see many stray cats at all. Last week a big boar Coon ( 15+ pounds)was hit in the road out front and made it to my driveway. I had planned to remove it next day as it was trash pick up day, but next morning he was gone with lots of Coyote tracks in the sand.

The studies they have done on Eastern Coyotes are pretty interesting. It seems that as they expanded from the West to fill the void left by the removal of "most" red wolves, they readily bred with the remaining few that were here and some donestic dogs. This is where they got their larger size and variety of colors. They are completely different creatures from the coyotes Ive seen in texas, arizona, colorado, and idaho.

A question for the Western hunters...

Do you have the solid black coyotes like we have in the East?
I don't mean a darker version, I mean jet black.  

They are pretty common here in Georgia.

Congrats Jerry. The dogs out east are far larger than ones I've seen Wisconsin-west

I've seen one very black one over many years.  Ours are more gray with sometimes a bit of reddish.  Not real easy to call in most areas.  I think they get called to a lot.

When I called in Texas I was surprised at how readily they came in.

Maybe because the dogs out east don't have wolves to deal with  ! so they eat more.    

Great job!

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