Fox or Coyote

whistlepig · Jan 6, 2013

I watched a reality show a couple of months ago about catching a cupacabra. Local sightings they had. Scratches on fence posts they had. So they set up with baited traps, FLIR, trail cameras, and high definition audio recorders. What could survive that? I watched this show for an hour. At the end of the show they had caught a little wet, scruffy, and mangy possum in a baited trap. An hour of my life that I will never get back.

the old grind · Jan 6, 2013

whistlepig said:
I respectfully disagree that gray fox's are larger than red fox's. And I know a little more than some about trapping for fur. http://www.nccoastaltraining.net/uploads/Documents/Fox - Mike Campbell PPT.pdf

I apologize for the mis-information. I got my dope slaps when the both the other guys said my personal appraisal was the exception vs the rule, and that my printed sources were incomplete and/or unreliable. (I offered any/all of them back...) The consensus of total stretched vs my shooting alone was that of 30 or so in recent seasons greys are usually(!) (read, 'what were you thinkin??') larger around here...

Y'know, Crow isn't too bad roasted, with a bit of hot or honey mustard.

btw: BIL did get one red o'nite on a 'yote snare going dowhill. (bigger loop set a tad higher). Here's pics of his latest, and of two yotes hangin'. The little coons are on 40" stretchers, and the left/bottom 'yote was likely the big boy among the 2-3 others he's been running with. Sorry the pics are sideways...

While I won't disagree that the OP's photo indeed shows canis latrans, I'll always wonder because of distance & angle of the shot, focus, hues, etc. Seeing 'em up close as often as I do doesn't do a thing for my credentials, really ...:confused3:

VPFarm · Jan 7, 2013

Coyote......

Either way, I would be in my scopes. Both are hazards if you have small farm animals or pets.

Lou66 · Jan 7, 2013

Oh Yes the Great Chupacabra I have hear him.. While walking alone on a misty foggy beach at wolf creek pass on Lavaca Bay,, Where the wild boar up roots the giant spineless prickly pear cacti for the only nutriment of the night,

, but unaware to the wild boar the Chupacabra larks with in the cacti grove where he can spring forward and devour 200 pound javelin in one setting,:shocked:, Arrrrr Matey if you're ever in Matagorda county and find yourself alone on Lavaca bay next to a cacti grove be sure you can out run a pig.:laughing:. just saying.. Lou

k0ua · Jan 7, 2013

JohninCT said:
I'm with the others and think it's a coyote. I looked up pictures of red fox and gray fox and it doesn't look like either of them.

Red fox
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Grey Fox
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I am glad to see someone has a sense of humor!

All this peeing about foxes was starting to bum me out

James K0UA

VPFarm · Jan 7, 2013

Lou66 said:
Oh Yes the Great Chupacabra I have hear him.. While walking alone on a misty foggy beach at wolf creek pass on Lavaca Bay,, Where the wild boar up roots the giant spineless prickly pear cacti for the only nutriment of the night,, but unaware to the wild boar the Chupacabra larks with in the cacti grove where he can spring forward and devour 200 pound javelin in one setting,:shocked:, Arrrrr Matey if you're ever in Matagorda county and find yourself alone on Lavaca bay next to a cacti grove be sure you can out run a pig.:laughing:. just saying.. Lou

Funny

.... I never had real issues with Coyote when in TX. Had a pack of 6-8 hunt me and my 3 & 6 year old in CA while hiking. In TN they've scared the crud out of the barn cats and God only knows why my indoor cats are so terrified (I figure they must have jumped at the cats as they stared out the patio doors/windows). Neighbors tell me the Coyote here have attacked/killed calves and that sheep definitely need a full time watchdog/donkey/alpaca.