Coyotes getting bigger

[B-78]

I had a conversation with the fur buyer a couple weeks ago regarding the size of my coyotes. We both agreed that over the years the size of coyotes has really increased. I built some stretchers 35+ years ago and purposely built them overly long thinking I could cut them down if the end wore out. Back in the old days I only had one coyote, a big old male, that came close to filling the stretcher. Now it seems that every second or third one is coming close to filling it for length.
I shot one this evening and after skinning it I’m sure it will fill the stretcher. I have a 12 ft ceiling in my fur shed with an electric winch on the ceiling for skinning. Had the gambrel right up to the winch when I was finishing the head and had to be careful not to get the hide in the blood on the floor.
Just wondering if anybody else has noticed this over the years.

 

[DVXDUDE]

The 8 i turned in 2019 was all 2x-3x Heavy-semi .

 

[RyoTHC]

It’s what happens when the rowdy male wolves put the female coyotes to use and eat the males lol

 

[tbloggins]

Coywolves. Western coyote and Eastern timber wolf or grey wolf. Started in Southern Ontario.

 

[blasted_saber]

Sounds like some mixing going on with other canids.

 

[Longwalker]

A certain amount of wolf genes have been in the Ontario and eastern coyotes for some time now. Seems like the trend is moving west. We don't see those intermediate types in Saskatchewan as far as I know.

 

[Brutus]

By gosh by golly you never know what mother nature had in store for us. In 1888 the last wolf believed shot in NB yet exactly one century later coydogs are a reality thereabouts. Ten thousand years ago, maybe less, there were hyenas in North America. What's next should be our very next question. It seems that wild candids do very well on the fringes of the modern world. Living off our scraps living off our livestock living off our pets too.
Every peace mission Canada attends we see feral dogs run amuck at the very least.