Jrbhunter

Now you are talking Apples and Oranges.

Immediately you have to cut the likelyhood of this COYDOG cross in HALFversus apuggle type cross- because female domestic dogs are not going to drop a liter of pups and raise them in the wild. So, your parents would consist of a male DOG and a female COYOTE.

Now, cut down the likelyhood of this cross happening because there aren't many domestic dogs living in and amongst coyotes in a manor that would allow them to breed a female.

Now, cut your likelyhood again because if he happened to be in the right place... at the right time... and came across a female coyote in estrus: just how many male coyotes is he going to shuck off before he hits it?

Now-let's just say Fidodefied all odds and mounted a female coyote. He then walks back to the house and lays on the porch while she roams back into the hills. This is EXTREMELY different than the relationship male and female coyotes have during pup rearing.

She will have to find a safe den, make it all nice and comfy, then defend it from trespassing coyotes. This factor alone is enough to declare COYDOGS impossible! She would be under constant pressure from other mating pairs, and transient coyotes, and in most cases up against a losing battle. She'd be tossed around the countryside- if not killed- with some very unhealthy pups in her womb.

So... she's defied the odds again and carried Fido's pups full-term. Now she drops them in a wet culvert under the highway as she trembles in fear of other coyotes. Odds are reasonable that by hiding from coyotes she has put herself at the mercy of human interaction... or at the very least a pesky pair of walker coonhounds.


Now for the sake of argument let's say no humans find her- no dogs bother her- and the neighboring family groups of coyotes somehow overlook her. She raises these 6 pups to the age of 3 days. Then what? There is no male there to bring her food, if she has access to water it may be limited. Nutricionally she and her pups are up against GREAT ODDS of surviving the first 3-4 weeks.

Now... let's keep the theory going and say that 5 of the 6 pups somehow survive the first three weeks. Take a look at the survival rate amongst coyote pups and tell me how many of them will see their first birthday! Of those 5, one or two would live to their first birthday under NORMAL conditions. Factor in their lack of parenting and low nutricion and you may not even see that many on average.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, anything is possible... but the frequency that everyone claims to see these "Coydogs" is simply ridiculous. I have seen hundreds of coyotes during my hunting travels and probably thousands more online- never once have I seen a coyote that I reasonably accepted as a COYDOG.

Quite frankly there are some very strange/odd/wierd coyotes out there across this country and I think people often struggle to put an explination behind the differences- yet we don't wonder why some of us are ugly/fat/handsome/thin/tall/short. It's a recurring argument across all forums... and it's a fun debate to have... but I think between Science and Nature it's been proven a VERY rare occourance in the real world. Just my .02