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    mikebol

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    Can anyone identify this creature? I saw this while mowing yesterday in Trafalgar and it appears to be a young canine of some sort. I first thought it was a coyote pup but it appears to have no or very little hair. Chupacabra?

    Mike


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    I shot a couple coyotes with mange a few years ago and they laid in the fields untouched. Nothing would eat on them. It kind of surprised me that even mangy coyotes wouldn't even eat them.
     
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    Jaybird1980 said:
    I shot a couple coyotes with mange a few years ago and they laid in the fields untouched. Nothing would eat on them. It kind of surprised me that even mangy coyotes wouldn't even eat them.
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    Typically coyotes wont eat other coyotes regardless of mange. Of all the yotes I've left in the field, I've seen 1 time another coyote messing with it. Buzzards are about the only thing that will eat a dead coyote, and they leave it for months.
     
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    42769vette said:
    Typically coyotes wont eat other coyotes regardless of mange. Of all the yotes I've left in the field, I've seen 1 time another coyote messing with it. Buzzards are about the only thing that will eat a dead coyote, and they leave it for months.
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    I figured other mangy coyotes would be so desperate they would eat anything. I know there were at least two more in the area, since I only got two of the four.

    Nothing touched these. They rotted in the fields until the farmer plowed them under
     
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    bwframe said:
    Wonder if the OP should be concerned for their own pets getting mange, being close enough to get a picture if that mangy coyote?


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    Fortunately, I no longer have pets on the property but that was my first thought as well. If this is a coyote pup with mange, I'll take care of it.
     
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