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<blockquote data-quote="ATH" data-source="post: 1323289" data-attributes="member: 1656"><p>If a 90lb kill looked just like a coyote, it wasn't a wolf. Wolves and coyotes look and carry themselves quite differently.</p><p></p><p>I don't trust anything a DNR tells me. In 2003 I lived on a 2 acre lot outside Willow Run Airport, bordering on the undeveloped land surrounding the airport. This is perhaps 15 miles from Detroit Metro Airport. One morning I let my dog out in the backyard to run and notice a piece of brown packing paper lying in the back of the yard. As my dog gets closer the paper moves, and I realize it has ears and a face. It's a cougar. I run in and grab my 1187 and yell and my dog to come, and the cougar jumps up and bounds over the back fence. There was no mistaking the identity, I got a clear view of the color features of the face and tail. It was a half-grown animal, obviously born locally, not some South Dakota transient like the DNR was claiming every upper penninsula one was. Of course I call the DNR, they tell me I don't know what I'm talking about, until I detail my qualifications as a biologist, at which point they shut up and just leave.</p><p></p><p>Within just the past 2 weeks, 14 years later, after incontrovertible photographic proof near Lansing, they are admitting cougars exist in the lower part of the state.</p><p></p><p>That said, a large coyote is not a wolf, it's most likely a coydog. I've personally shot two coyotes in Indiana weighing 50 and 55 pounds. A timber wolf is an entirely different critter, and don't handle competition with people in nearly the same way as coyotes. So I really doubt they'd handle Indiana well. And they also travel in packs, so you won't see just one of them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ATH, post: 1323289, member: 1656"] If a 90lb kill looked just like a coyote, it wasn't a wolf. Wolves and coyotes look and carry themselves quite differently. I don't trust anything a DNR tells me. In 2003 I lived on a 2 acre lot outside Willow Run Airport, bordering on the undeveloped land surrounding the airport. This is perhaps 15 miles from Detroit Metro Airport. One morning I let my dog out in the backyard to run and notice a piece of brown packing paper lying in the back of the yard. As my dog gets closer the paper moves, and I realize it has ears and a face. It's a cougar. I run in and grab my 1187 and yell and my dog to come, and the cougar jumps up and bounds over the back fence. There was no mistaking the identity, I got a clear view of the color features of the face and tail. It was a half-grown animal, obviously born locally, not some South Dakota transient like the DNR was claiming every upper penninsula one was. Of course I call the DNR, they tell me I don't know what I'm talking about, until I detail my qualifications as a biologist, at which point they shut up and just leave. Within just the past 2 weeks, 14 years later, after incontrovertible photographic proof near Lansing, they are admitting cougars exist in the lower part of the state. That said, a large coyote is not a wolf, it's most likely a coydog. I've personally shot two coyotes in Indiana weighing 50 and 55 pounds. A timber wolf is an entirely different critter, and don't handle competition with people in nearly the same way as coyotes. So I really doubt they'd handle Indiana well. And they also travel in packs, so you won't see just one of them. [/QUOTE]
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