From: pasta@dontemailme.com   
      
   In article <20040531171801.00694.00000303@mb-m01.aol.com>, xmarx467@aol.compost   
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   >>From: pasta@dontemailme.com  (Las Aña)   
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   >Could what you have seen been a "coydog"?  That's a cross between a dog and a   
   >coyote.  Some of them can be pretty good size.   
      
   There was no hint of "dog" in the look of this animal.   
   It had the narrow "face" of a coyote, but was much   
   too heavy to be a coyote. And the colorful coat was   
   the other tip-off that it wasn't an overgrown coyote.   
   Once I began really thinking about it I realize that   
   the muzzle really is somehow different from that of   
   coyotes. In any event, the animal control officer   
   confirmed to me that it is indeed a grey wolf.   
      
   BTW, there are other wolves indigenous to this region   
   but they are so rare as to be non-existant as far as   
   being sighted by people. Then there is the rest of   
   the indigenous population here, consisting of elk,   
   deer, bear, pumas, turkeys, etc. Pumas (or mountain   
   lions) are infrequently sighted by people hiking the back   
   country.   
      
   We also have wild mustangs, pigs, and barbary sheep.   
   These three are said to have originated from once-domestic   
   sources but have been living in the wild for so long that   
   they are now feral. And then of course there is the   
   usual plague of feral cats!!   
      
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