Coyote or fox?

Many years ago, my Dad and I found a dead coyote (poisoned) that was a nice reddish colour. Someone had put out poison bait on his land without asking. He found a couple more baits in the Spring, poured diesel fuel on them.
 
I've seen coyotes that colour. I've killed a few too. But that picture looks weird, Its face is almost cartoon like, Looks like a corgi dog, The one corgi that's always in that meme if you guys know what I'm talking about lol
 
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canadian hunter312 said:
The front and rear leg position along with the snow in the air means the animal was moving. It looks completely normal for a trotting canine.

I think some of you are seeing this as a stationary animal?
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No. Look at the legs again. All 4 of them just kinda dissappear. It looks to me like it has no ankles or feet.

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Dig into the pixels and none of the legs look right where the legs meet the snow and cornstalks. Look closer at the ground and the layered images that give a hint of the topography but are multiple layers of snow lines and cornstalks cropped from other images that are used in a poor attempt to hide the feet in the snow.
 
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Sorry for resurrecting an old thread, I did a little more research and found what I was looking for; I had seen a canine that I thought was a coyote about 600 meters (650 yards by my range finder) from my house but when I put my binoculars on it it was red and I'd never seen a red coyote. Turns out they really do exist, which is the answer to my original question.
 
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canadian hunter312 said:
The front and rear leg position along with the snow in the air means the animal was moving. It looks completely normal for a trotting canine.

I think some of you are seeing this as a stationary animal?
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I agree. And it seems pretty clear some people in this thread haven't hunted coyotes in snow covered corn fields. Their legs can easily disappear like that in 6-8 inches of snow. Some farms I hunt the corn is cut off 4 inches, others its more like a foot that's left so there is no way of judging snow depth based on the stalk height. And coyotes look back like that all the time... tracks would not be visible from that angle.

To me it looks like the picture was photoshopped....probably a bit of a reddish coyote to begin with but its obvious they boosted the saturation of the entire photo and then I think they lightened up the lower parts of the face to give it a fox-like face. Simple as that.
 
I think that usually any maps on the run/trot don’t do so with there tails down… if just walking they do but moving faster than a walk they usually don’t!
This image as been either photoshopped or AI generated. We confirmed that a long time ago 😂
 
Runningfool said:
I agree. And it seems pretty clear some people in this thread haven't hunted coyotes in snow covered corn fields. Their legs can easily disappear like that in 6-8 inches of snow. Some farms I hunt the corn is cut off 4 inches, others its more like a foot that's left so there is no way of judging snow depth based on the stalk height. And coyotes look back like that all the time... tracks would not be visible from that angle.

To me it looks like the picture was photoshopped....probably a bit of a reddish coyote to begin with but its obvious they boosted the saturation of the entire photo and then I think they lightened up the lower parts of the face to give it a fox-like face. Simple as that.
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Look again - the legs end before they touch the snow. It's not a real picture, not even good fake picture.
 
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