Looks too stocky to be a coyote.
Fingers crossed for these animals to make a comeback!

Blasphemy. All wolves need to die. Spend some seasons up in the rockies and you'll change you're mind.

Looks more like a dog cross to me. Much stockier, too much paunch in the hind quarters.

And even gray wolf tracks are only about 4.5 inches long, so if he's claiming he's got 5-inch prints, he's discrediting his own intent. Red wolf tacks are 3.5-4 inches.

jensent, I am with you. spend some time in eastern N.C. and you will want all WOLVES dead.
They were made extinct for a reason. think about it. I promise you do not want them back in Texas.
if you really do, you can have all that is in N.C. I trade you for your pigs, even give you 2 for 1. Forrest

When I was a teenager, I saw a pack of 4 of them running past my deer stand in Polk county. This was in the 70's. They may have been hybrids but there were no coyotes in Polk county back then. My father didn't believe me until I showed him the tracks in the mud on the road. They were not dogs for sure. When my dad told the landowner next door, he said that several folks had seen them and that he was dissapointed that I didn't shoot one.
I wouldn't mind a wolf hide on the wall, even if it were a hybrid.

My fault there. What I should have said was that he found a 5" track - that was "canine" in origin, and was in he same area that he has found the red wolves.

Well now Just imagine that...a pic of a rare Red Wolf...but not one single one of ol' Big Feets. I guess ol' Red ain't as smart as Squatchy.

An interesting article about red wolves in Texas.

http://www.tpwmagazine.com/archive/2012/dec/LLL_redwolf/

we don't need any large predatory things like
wolves re-established here. the government
didn't spend gazzillion dollars bounty money
because they were "cute" and "neato" to look at.
they were killing livestock and our game and
loved ones if they had a chance. if you want to
see wolves, move to one of the liberal tree hugger
states where they want wolves. they'll probably
have gratis sushi during the wine tasting on the
wolf observation deck at the local bistro.

Free sushi I am in!!!

I'll skip the liquid fish, but I can do some wine tasting, bring them wolves in and go ahead and throw a few grizzly on the trailer, might as well have something that can fight back.

Hey dude, all animals are "sacred", or should be to the hunter, even if they do put a SERIOUS dent in our huntable elk populations.
We don't have any real deer predators here. And maybe wolves will kind of help out with the pig problem?

Relax compadre. TPWD said it ain't happenin.

Four different times in the late 70's and early 80's I went Elk hunting in SW Montana near Gardiner. It was easy to draw a tag to hunt the huge herds of Elk that migrated north out of Yellowstone. It was not unusual to see between 1000-1500 Elk per day during this late season hunt! I got married and started hunting in Colorado/New Mexico in the mid 80's because it was closer and cheaper. I've kept up with several buddues that I used to hunt the migration with that still live in Wyoming. Not Long after Wolf reintroduction the available tags and Elk got fewer and fewer and today the hunt no longer exist. Becareful what you wish for!!! Wolves, Coyote and feral dogs don't last long around me! Baker

If you knew about ranching you wouldnt be saying that around here. This is a hunting forum not a liberal save every animal forum. Every animal has its place, but some of those places are not conducive to humans and their practices.

And deer do have predators, bobcat, mountain lion, coyote, and feral dogs. Also environmental factors do plenty to thin deer out every year

Possible Red Wolf DNA/Hybrid, who knows. In fairness...his article is titled Red Wolf "like" animal, so he is being intellectually honest and NOT claiming this specimen to be a Red Wolf.

I have a couple of game cam videos of animals that look more Wolf like than this one, but might be 'Coy Dogs'.

Only DNA testing would tell.

We have Coyotes in my part of Deep East Texas that well exceed the normal height and weight parameters attributed to them, but are clearly Coyotes. So physical size ALONE...should not be used as an identifying feature.

Interesting picture and post.

Flint.

By no means. High -Jacking this Thread.
But in years past. A few, "scratch you head" ; Coyote or Wolf. In my area of West Tx.
Northern Scurry, Borden Counties. Along the Caprock,

Despite my best efforts, I have never been able to get some of the locals to believe that. I have told them that IF they should ever shoot a wolf, it would look clearly different from a coyote.

Poor yote.

Even if he had captured a picture of "ol' Big Feets", you, most of all, wouldn't believe it anyway!

About 6 years ago we have seen a red wolf in northeast Texas camp county but that was the only one we ever saw.