No such thing...

[illuki]

There's no such thing as a coy dog, or so certain internet sites tell me. I don't know if I quite believe. The idea of the coy dog, or wild dog, dog/coyote crossbreed, is something I grew up with. Something entrenched in my youth. People stare at me when I use the term, just like they do when I say that the people on my road are guilders

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Ummm Sho...

[unicorngurl180]

I don't know who you know, but coy dog is a real word, just slang. It's noteven just local. They use it in documentaries about Texas and Arizona and stuff all the time. So maybe the people you talk to just don't know it. There's even a business called Coydog catchers or something, out of somewhere in NY, with abig white van, or there used to be, when there was a $200 bounty on them.

Re: Ummm Sho...

[illuki]

A big white van? Are you sure they weren't coming you? *grins, ducks* It's weird, some site were all like, "Yes coy dogs are real, and would go into mating seasons, etc. And other sites were like "No, it's impossible. They can't interbred, you're just seeing coyotes." Of course, I think the former sites were a bit more official looking. Whatever. I think coy dogs are real, and that's all that matters.

I used to get the blank stares back in Virginia, when I talked about how I had to be careful coy dogs didn't eat my cats. I'm not sure if they never heard the term, or if Virginia is strange enough to not have coy dogs. It seems strange. Even if the word is slang, it's seems fairly wipespread. Even outside the NE.

[sharllissa]

of course there are coy dogs. we have them even in Wa.

[illuki]

It's good to know that someone knows what I'm talking about. When I used the term coy dog at college, people'd just stare at me. I began to think it was just a regional thing.