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The coyotes are also breeding with the Eastern Red Wolves that have been 
reintroduced - which probably dooms the Eastern Red Wolf reintroduction 
program. The half Eastern wolf and half coyotes has resulted in a half 
wolf/half coyote that is not near as shy as the Eastern wolf.

I wonder where the coyotes have come from in the East. Back in the 60's 
we never heard of coyotes in Western KY. When I lived in Maryland and 
Virginia we never heard of them. I never saw them in the wild except in 
the Rockies until the mid 80's when I saw on in Florida. The population 
in the East has seemed to literally exploded. Of course the deer was 
reintroduced in Western Kentucky about 1968 so I wonder if there might 
be a correlation.

Truman

rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> >     > cyotes or cyote dog hybrids
> >     > very hard to find actual cyotes anymore
> >     
>
> I read a book about the Eastern Coyotes...they are *all* bigger. The
> author's theory is that there's a tad of wolf that mixed in at some point
> and they are filling the void left by the Red Wolf in the Eastern
> forests..nature fills a void with the sized creature it had adapted for
> the job. Forget the details but it was pretty persuading argument. The
> ones I've seen were very consistent...and very shy. Saw 3 pups on the
> trail at Biltmore the night before the ride last year...have seen one
> within 20 yards of my back door. It was chasing my Australian Shepherd
> home but when my dog saw me on my horse she seemed to think
> *reinforcements!* and turned and chased it back over the ridge.
>
> Angie (headed out to pick up my new 7 year old barely halter broke
> stallion this morning...details pending!)
>
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