Looked just like the smaller one, but with about 30lb more muscle.
Posted on 05/25/2012 8:35:56 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
Black mouth cur? perhaps
The scary part was that there were definately at least several, and maybe more. I've always thoughy coyotes were either solitary or worked in pairs, and the fact that there were clearly a bunch of them, coupled with the howling (honestly sounded just like wolves, and I didn't think coyotes howl like that) made me think they there coy-wolves.
one part dog or 7 parts dog?
Maybe. But the head was bigger. LIke a pit bull. Maybe a cross between a pitt and a cur.
Thanks for that link!
Looked just like the smaller one, but with about 30lb more muscle.
hate that movie as well....no redeeming qualities IMO....
Small feral dogs make coyote sounds. I had another relative that had a dog problem. the whole pack was started by a husky dam and a kelpie sire. they ended up with a bunch of wild inbred dogs that ate the weaker tamer of their pack. in a few years there were dogs that lived in the ditches and the berms and the tree lines. They got smaller every generation. Ended up about 15-20 lbs and creepy little animals that scurried around in the shadows.
They made sounds exactly like a coyote. eventually he had to kill them all. Traps and poison. They became a threat to neighbors.
Found some pics of her. She loved ham.
As much as I loved my hybrid...a fence never stopped him. He could scale a 7 ft fence or dig under as deep as it took and squeeze out a hole that was only big enough for a rat terrier. He always came home..but it was pretty nerve wracking wondering if he was safe.
I had several dogs at the time. Although, typically, the alpha is a female it wasn’t true with him. He would take the “girls” over to a spot he wanted dug out and point his nose at that spot. They would dig like crazy.Lazy bum! Off he would go. One of the “girls” would usually follow. But she had been “on the streets” and would crawl back thru. She was a smart old girl...but he was pretty darn canny himself.
Your fascination is going to increase when you do see one. They are beautiful and very dangerous no matter what Farley Mowat wrote in “Never Cry Wolf.” His books are enjoyable but do not paint a full picture.
That could well be. I never question what the geezers say.
But now you say that, it seems possible because a neighbor out walking her dog at night recently said a strange little critter ran out of the treeline and across the road in front of her -- said it was a smallish, pointy, black little canine-looking critter that barked (strangely, she said) before darting off.
Still, I cherish in my heart the possibilty that I was chases by a pack of coy-wolfs.
Best “dog” I ever had was a half-wolf half-shepard. Insanely strong, protective, smart, and (yes) gentle to those she knew. And timid around non-threatening strangers.
Now to a threat like the poorly raised mean dog next door who barked mean at me? Well, she would have gone over the fence and gutted him. Why didn’t she? I said, “No,” so she bounced off of the top of the fence and the looked at my like, “Huh?”
But I could see what a monster she would have been if feral or raised wrong. Terrifying doesn’t come close...
Chihahua= wolf. It’s all clear, lol.
I always thought chihuahuas were devils..their ears were big to cover their horns.
(no offense to any chi owners! I have had a few in my life.)
Mine never did bark. Barking is vulgar behavior to wolves. She would howl if she felt mistreated (nail clippings, baths) but she loved being brushed head to toe.
She could gnaw down a full beef femur in about half an hour. Her habit was to crush the bones into little bitty splinters and lick those up, and used her toes to hold the bone like we use our fingers.
I am more likely to think romantically about a wild strain of dogs. i liked those little wild dogs that were all killed. It makes me happy to think that a couple of ordinary dogs can give rise to a pack of something wild and different if given the chance. Someday we are going to lose our economy and our civilization. If all our helpless domesticated animals(livestock included) can revert to something that is wild and self sufficient, there might be hope for another civilization some day in the future.
Me, too. I think they’re one of the most beautiful animals in the world. (Along with bobcats)
In 1972 I was driving across a railroad track in my home town in Eastern Arkansas when I spotted a very small, gray puppy on the tracks. I stopped and put him in my car and took him to my mother’s house. I had a grown Colley and she was scared to death of this little puppy. My dad came in later and said “That’s a damn wolf.” I took it to the outskirts of town and let it go. Beautiful little pup.
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