Is this a coyote?
 

Checked my trail cam today and I think I have a coyote. FYI I cropped these pictures to enlarge the animal.

I'd say it is. What state do you live in? I wonder if its a western or eastern.

It appears to be either a young coyote or possibly a coyote/dog cross, which is what some call a coydog.

I live and hunt in VA, so it would be an eastern coyote.

Looks to be a yote to me they look different during the spring/summer when their fur isn't prime like it is in the fall/winter when the weather starts cooling off.

The white patch on the chest and the tip of the tail would suggest a coyote dog hybrid or coydog.
The way it carries the tail high in the 2nd picture is another indication.
I would say it has dog blood or it could even be just a wild or feral dog.
To me it doesn't look like a pure bred Coyote.

we been gettin some crosses down here in Okla., goverment trapper are callin them hybrids, cross between dog a coyote.

looks like a Dingo

It appears that there are two identical ones traveling together, mostly at night. I think they are just plain ole coyotes. Seems like if they were dog hybrids they wouldn't look identical, and maybe would stick together.

Doesn't look exactly right to me for a yote either, but as 13points say, they look different in the summer. If they are hybrids, it wouldn't surprise me that they look alike, since they probably would be from the same litter--probably isn't that much cross breeding going on.

It does look like it has dog blood in him.

I've seen several Coyotes and that one definetly looks like it has some tame Dog in him?Still if its wild and messing with any of Your Farm Animals/Livestock it would be Ok to shoot it.

+ 1 for Coydog

Nice color on him! Take him out! I'm not sure,but if it has some tame in it, that might make it less wary towards humans. I wouldn't want it hanging around pets/people!

I'll definitely take him out if I see him. I don't know if I am going to go to the trouble to buy an electronic call and such, seeing as most people think it is half dog.

I agree, "coydog". I'd for sure light em up next time I saw them. That's some scappy, ratty lookin critters right there. :s12:

Are chupacabra's now makin their way to VA? :happy0157:
RA

It's a coyote with its summer fur.

The white "trimming" on the chest and tip of the tail really make me think it's a hybrid. The crown of the skull and the stop of the brow (over 25yrs growing up as a conformation dog breeder) look dodgey to be a purebred coyote. It's definitely a juvenile. I'd just as easily believe that it has NO coyote in it at all (wild mutt dog) as I would believe it's a hybrid, and I'm NOT prone to believe it's purebred coyote at all.

The easy explanation for why you saw "two identical dogs" running together at night, even if it is a hybrd or mutt dog is that these are juveniles, and it's VERY common that siblings from a litter, especially of dogs, will stick together until adulthood, or beyond. Domesticated dogs are actually more intrinsically "pack animals" than wild coyotes. Even still, seeing a pair of juvenile coyotes that age together wouldn't be uncommon. At that age (and this time of year I'd assume), the older "kits" are getting kicked out making room for the younger litter as they're becoming more mobile (should be breeding late winter-jan to march depending on area, welping in the spring to early summer-march to May, and the new pups will be VERY active by now-3 to 5months old, making the older kits a threat to them).

When I was growing up as a kid on the farm, wild dogs were a bigger problem than coyotes EVER were. Coyote, hybrid, or just plain mutts, I'd be taking these out if I were you...

keep an eye on your chickens...........

Dogs, and I don't think they have much 'yote in them at all. WHere I'm from we have a lot of coyotes, and also a good amount of stray dogs. The dogs will do more damage than the yote's will. I'd shoot them without thinking twice if you got the chance.
-Jake