Throwing tennis balls at coyotes...

[rruff]

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2020/1...ted-to-finally-be-included-in-games-of-fetch/

"Scamp E. Coyote couldn’t believe his luck the first time a human threw him a tennis ball. “I looked around thinking it might have been meant for some basic canine, like a Max or Daisy, but no, it was meant for me!” explained Scamp E. “I rushed over and as I brought it back to its owner she started yelling ‘bad coyote’ so there were definitely some mixed messages in the game.” The experience left him shaken as that’s the kind of behaviour he’d expect from someone in Westmount, but not in Quesnell Heights."

 

[INTJohn]

When i lived on my 80 acres i threw lead at a few……
Had one made into a nice coyote rug the dawters cat would lay on.
bch bum jonny

 

[twomountainlions]

Coyote-dog-wolf seen in Minnesota. Nice looking animal, would be good to own one
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...stery-wolf-dog-animal-northern-minnesota.html

 

[rruff]

Unusual looking hybrid for sure.

I don't know about owning though. I caught a baby coyote when I was a kid, and tried for several months to make a pet out of him, and he never got tame at all. Never bit me but he didn't like me, and always tried to run off. I turned him loose in the woods when he got big enough, and I hope he was able to make it.

 

[Gr8ful]

Coyote VS Dog Tracks: Easy Ways to Tell the Difference​

 

[twomountainlions]

Unusual looking hybrid for sure.

I don't know about owning though. I caught a baby coyote when I was a kid, and tried for several months to make a pet out of him, and he never got tame at all. Never bit me but he didn't like me, and always tried to run off. I turned him loose in the woods when he got big enough, and I hope he was able to make it.

May be it had traumatic memories of being caught and not being able to get back to their family...if born in captivity would be completely tame

 

[rruff]

May be it had traumatic memories of being caught and not being able to get back to their family...if born in captivity would be completely tame

I got it pretty young... I doubt it had ever been out of the culvert, and I was able to outrun it. If you take a puppy from a litter at a similar age, that is surely a traumatic experience as well... but dogs have hundreds or thousands of generations of domestication and bonding with humans, which coyotes and wolves lack.

If I'd trapped the mother and she had her litter I doubt the pups would have been tame. It may take a few generations.