Hey everyone! My reason for making this post is everyone constantly tells me and my fiance they thinks our dog is either part wolf or coyote? I have looked up a couple things and we intend on doing a DNA test at Christmas but I wanted to see what everyone else thinks.

He was a rescue found in the mountains of Tennessee at around 5/6 months old so we don’t have many puppy pictures but I attached the only one we do have. A couple things about him that make people say he looks like a coyote: he has curved fangs which apparently dogs don’t usually have, he has very very thick fur, he’s always been very lean, and he is very weird with people. This last thing has gotten better as we got another dog but he has a very small circle of people he trusts and is comfortable around. I know a lot of these things can be dog traits as well but it apparently can point to him being a hybrid as I have heard? Another thing that piqued my interest is he has gotten ahold of some chickens when we’ve spent time at the lake (he didn’t break into the pen the owner was very irresponsible and the chickens got into our yard where he got them, so no blame was held against him lol)

Anyway! I attached a few pictures of our boy and I am excited to see what everyone thinks, I will definitely report back with his DNA test when we get it.

Two different animals. There are 3 total in the same time frame. Are these coyotes or wolves? Image taken an hour and a half north of Lake Mille Lacs

More video shenanigans in the comments. Ojai, California 10/17/2026

There is a beautiful area of woods right next to a reservoir near my home that I’ve been bring my 2 year old son and 38 pound dog to play every day. We collect mushrooms, climb trees, play fetch. There rarely any people there so I let my dog off leash to get her zoomies out. My dog has great recall when there are no other dogs around. Today when I arrived, around 11 am, I was holding her leash and getting my toddler out the stroller and my dog started loosing her shit, barking intensely behind my back, I turn around and saw an large coyote off in the distance. It looked at us and ran away. My dog didn’t stop barking. I left my toddler strapped in the stroller and we left the woods.

I know coyotes rarely hurt humans. My dogs bark was effective at scaring it off. Nothing bad happened. The coyote was beautiful and i feel pretty honored to have seen if. But I am still shaken up a bit by the thought of had I not been holding my dog, had my toddler not been strapped in the stroller and had my dog run after the coyote what could have happened.

Should I be scared going back there. Or is it safe if I just keep my dog leashed the whole time and my toddler in arms reach? Should keep and air horn and pepper spray on my body? I’m very petite, I weigh under 100 pounds and am under 5’ tall. My toddler is close to 30 pounds now. Are we at risk?

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The quality of the pictures isn’t stellar, but I just wanted to share. The last picture is the most recent and it’s probably the biggest one yet!

There is a pair of coyotes that lives right next to me in the city (Seattle) and we encounter them more often than not when walking our dogs at night and sometimes early morning.

Sound ON at the end to hear how the sirens going by sets them off yipping and howling. We'd just walked through there and didn't see them but they are there.

And some peccary drawings because I didn’t want to just spread bad propaganda

Pair of Coyote's Hunting in the Woods

Caught this footage of a doe charging 6 coyotes near my house. The coyotes were pretty much lounging around when the doe came and started fucking with them. Doe had 2 or 3 buddies in the background but it was pretty crazy to watch.

Based off a photo I recently saw. NSFW just in case but not extremely violent

We have a coyote problem in my neighborhood. We live on a few acres of land. We previously had 3 cats at diff times and they each disappeared 1 at a time over time. There’s also always flyers going around my neighborhood of peoples dogs and cats going missing. The other night i was outside, smoking on the higher up backyard deck outside and I heard something bigger walking thru the leaves less than a block down and then it got closer and under me in my backyard with heavier steps (my dog was with me he barks at every single little thing/person but he was pure silent looking down) I was nervous but grabbed my dog and we went inside. And when I asked my father the next day he said the other day he saw a pack of 4 of either coyote/wolves moving through our backyard. Long history of this, my neighbor once caught a single grown adult coyote/wolf on his camera and showed us years ago when we first moved in here, i guess like a warning of the area. We really want this problem gone, what can we do ? Any
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a close friends fiancé got attacked while on a walk with his dog by two coyotes. I have a small dog and i’m nervous because there are a lot in my area and yard, what do u even do to survive? i’m also a woman and don’t think i could take one multiple or pack? he also got 15 stitches and the dog is in rough shape…