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I'm with you, heads not right at all. Also looks WAY to clean / smooth. Like it just got brushed or something.
My feeling, too, though the second pic, with the ears back look more "coyote". Sleek with dingo ears.
I cannot STAND coyotes. They've overbred and become predators of all kinds of domestic pets and livestock. A pack can take down a young horse. Actually, they've nearly eliminated native foxes and I'm sure other natural inhabitants. Can't stand them at all.
It's ... in the face somehow. Can't quite describe it. And the posture for sure.
Was it the only animal your camera sighted? I've never seen a lone Coyote; always in packs.
I agree. It's ears and snout look too pointed to me and the fur looks too close to the body. Maybe that's what coyotes look like where the OP lives though. Coyotes do travel alone. They've been spotted on Staten Island where I am and also in Manhattan.. or NYC as it's most popularly referred to. But the ones that we've seen have bushy fur and look a little unkempt like they need a good brushing. There are plenty of food sources here. Deer being the largest, foxes, turkeys, geese, ducks and the little furry critters that roam around.
May be the infra-red lighting playing tricks, but it does *look* like a pretty good-looking, sleek and well-groomed specimen. As someone else noted, head reminds me of Shepherd, a little bit. Coyotes we have here are really mangy looking. Some have bred with foxes. Some run alone, and there has even been one bold enough to come right up on my porch a couple of times.
I can not put my finger on it, but there is something about it that does not seem to be "Coyote". I am leaning towards a mixed breed domestic dog. I really don't know why. Shape of it's ears? The condition of it's fur? not sure but my inner feeling is something domesticated.
I agree, I think it's the shape of the muzzle, the fur and the muscle tone. I think it likes like a coyote hybrid.
May be the infra-red lighting playing tricks, but it does *look* like a pretty good-looking, sleek and well-groomed specimen. As someone else noted, head reminds me of Shepherd, a little bit. Coyotes we have here are really mangy looking. Some have bred with foxes. Some run alone, and there has even been one bold enough to come right up on my porch a couple of times.
The canis family (dogs, wolves, coyotes) cannot breed with either the Red or Grey Fox.
Looks like a large mixed breed dog to me, maybe part German Shepherd Dog, or maybe a dog-coyote mix. Too "bulky" looking, the body frame isn't lean enough for a coyote. Hard to tell though.
I don't know about Texas, but in my neck of the "woods," suburban NYC, coyotes are generally a "dogs' mess" (pun intended) of coyotes, dogs and wolves. They can all interbreed and produce fertile young. Given that the OP picture is not particularly clear I lean towards mix or hybrid.
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