
Coywolves are Taking Over Eastern North America
by Marissa Fessenden/Smithsonianmag.com 2015
People living in Eastern Canada and U.S. are probably familiar with the smart, adaptable wild canine that lives in their forests, neighborhood parks and even cities. What they may not know is that eastern coyotes aren’t true coyotes at all. They might better be known as hybrids, or coywolves.
Coywolves only emerged over the last century or so and have since spread successfully over much of eastern North America, reports Zachary Davies Boren for The Independent.
As deforestation, hunting and poisoning depleted the population numbers of eastern wolves, they interbred with western coyotes. A report from PBS writes that the first eastern coyote or coywolf appeared around 1919 in Ontario, Canada. Today, wolf DNA has popped up in “coyote” poop as far south as Virginia.
The hybrid, or Canis latrans var., is about 55 pounds heavier than pure coyotes, with longer legs, a larger jaw, smaller ears and a bushier tail. It is part eastern wolf, part wester wolf, western coyote and with some dog (large breeds like Doberman Pinschers and German Shepherds), reports The Economist. Coywolves today are on average a quarter wolf and a tenth dog.
That blend helps make the hybrid so successful that it now numbers in the millions, …Read More

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My Golden had a coyote bitch that had a litter in an old open she’d. She wouldn’t let me hear them pups but my guess is that Corey sired them. After a couple of weeks they headed off. Cory of course fathered everything he could in South Austin. Including a complaint from a neighbor breeding wolves. For All I know he could of sired a Golden doodle or two. My vet bred Golden’s and told me that Cory had great confirmation.
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