thank you for the replies everyone! and please try to keep it peaceful its funny because one response i read was "when i am turkey hunting i see them come in to my calls" 5 years ago...i was calling with my slate call the day after i killed a decent gobbler in the spring. i heard rustling in the bushes...and holy crap what do you know a huge 10 pointer came out from a swamp trail...he came out looked to his left and started grunting and stomping at two does...then started to follow them...10 mins later for the first time in my life i saw it....coming out from the same trail as that buck did....a huge coy dog........i was shocked...and some in awe because it was not the size from what ive seen online..it was massive!! i was impressed to be honest...then about 6months after that...one of our neighbors lost their golden retriever puppy late at night somehow it got loose from their run. Their puppy ended up tangled with the run in the bushes of my house..my rhodesian ridgeback at that time was acting very funny then aggressive...check it out the coy dogs were barking and making other sounds in my drive way and my flood lights scared them off...they were coming after the tangled pup. i dont know if anyone around here does the furs or anything so how would i go about finding out...last time i check there is no limit on how many coy dogs you can take here in my county of NY.(last year i checked) i have really noticed a decrease in the population of turkey and that is why i have been tinkering with the idea. How do they get along with the foxes by the way? i see the fox population and coy dog population are about the same...i was shocked the first timei heard a fox yell at midnight lol