Originally posted by TheCoffinman
we have quite a few coyotes/coy dogs, whatever you wanna call em here. you can hear them howling every other night or so in the countryside... all u need to do is step outside...

and yes im in upstate new york (finger lakes)

[edit on 7-3-2010 by TheCoffinman]

Originally posted by Asktheanimals
There have been reputable mountain lion sightings throughout new england for the last 20 years. As for "coy/wolves", coyotes and wolves cannot interbreed.
The link to the track picture doesn't work. As for the missing fender there is one animal there that can do that - black bears.

Originally posted by endisnighe
I will also give a bump to the thread.

But for another reason. Dogs really are wolves. They, over the years have been domesticated and than bread to bring out certain traits. This is by memory so certain components may be slightly different than what I said here.

Biology was my first love during high school. Growing up on a dairy farm I learned a lot about animal husbandry.

What I was speaking of earlier about wolves compared to dogs was that the US Land Management, has been over the years releasing captured wolves to certain states. Over time the wolves have been spreading quite rapidly, to a lot of ranchers and farmers chagrin.

As for what you were talking about in regards to the wheel well of the car, dogs inherently urinate on vehicles tires and wheel well areas. I seen it almost everyday with the milk truck that visited my farm growing up. The dogs on the different farms were spreading their scent, and each successive farm they went to, the next dog in the line would try to cover the scent of the past dog.

Now by what you said of the damage, some animal probably a wild one, instead of trying to cover the scent got angry and started tearing it up. Another normal action. You cannot tell what kind of animal it was just by the action though. I had seen my dogs do the same thing to mudflaps on the milk truck.