"The wolf that wasn’t
A few months ago there was a photo making the rounds on the Internet showing a huge 115-pound wolf-like animal lying dead next to a deer, with the caption saying, "This coyote is a New York State record and it was shot near you." The sender claimed verification from a DEC conservation officer named Robert Doe.

I got three of these photos sent to me, two by readers asking, "Can this be so?" The answer is no, it isn’t so; however, one outdoor writer from a newspaper in western New York with about the same circulation as the Press-Republican took the bait and without confirmation ran the photo and an accompanying article on the record coyote.

In the current newsletter of the New York State Outdoor Writers Association, another outdoor writer from that area, Gary Barton, did do some investigating, and what he found upset him very much. He writes, "The problem is that when an outdoor writer fails to verify information and writes several falsehoods into an article, it not only ruins that writer’s credibility, but makes readers wary about the rest of us."

As it turned out, according to Barton, there really is a CO named Bob Doe, but he never reviewed the photo nor commented on its authenticity. Barton did some additional investigating and found the "coyote" was actually a "neutered male dog/wolf/coyote of some sort." That animal was shot in Halstead Township, Pennsylvania."

I was just going on info that was with the photo and it was an actual newspaper article that it was in. Not sure what paper being that the article was cut out and pinned to an information board in a public place. - I did a little more research and found the following info.