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Re: There are no wolves in East Texas
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02/21/12 09:36 PM
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Re: There are no wolves in East Texas
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02/21/12 10:26 PM
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I wonder who would win in a fight between an East Texas Wolf and a Black Panther? Chupa would breed their wives and eat their young while they were fighting.Jackalope would watch from the bushes.
I learned long ago you can't reason someone out of something they don't reason themselves into.
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Re: There are no wolves in East Texas
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02/21/12 10:33 PM
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Black panther all day long....
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Re: There are no wolves in East Texas
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02/21/12 10:47 PM
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"It appears that in Texas, red wolves are now extinct."
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Re: There are no wolves in East Texas
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02/21/12 11:25 PM
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Hey bud! Good to see you're up and posting!!!
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Re: There are no wolves in East Texas
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02/22/12 12:08 AM
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"It appears that in Texas, red wolves are now extinct." I have heard of them making a comeback.
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Re: There are no wolves in East Texas
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02/22/12 03:40 AM
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I wonder who would win in a fight between an East Texas Wolf and a Black Panther? Chupa would breed their wives and eat their young while they were fighting.Jackalope would watch from the bushes. Awfully dangerous for Jackalope with Sasquatch lurking.
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Re: There are no wolves in East Texas
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02/22/12 03:43 AM
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I often wonder how many Alaskan & Siberian huskies roam away from houses out in the boonies.
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Re: There are no wolves in East Texas
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02/22/12 03:47 AM
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Sasquatch has just about purged this part of East Texas of all varmints!
"It is the same boiling water that softens the rice, which hardens the egg." It's not always about the circumstances, but what you are made of....
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Re: There are no wolves in East Texas
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02/22/12 03:48 AM
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Wish I had a squatch on our place to do that
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Re: There are no wolves in East Texas
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02/22/12 03:54 AM
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I have many, many pictures of very large coyotes near our home that are easily mistaken for a wolf. Compared to the mangy, small coyotes you see all over the place, our coyotes look like they hit the all-you-can-eat buffet every night.
We live a mile from the Neches River, adjacent to the largest state forest in Texas. It is very wooded, very secluded, and a perfect hunting ground for varmints.
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Re: There are no wolves in East Texas
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02/22/12 03:56 AM
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They may or may not put a dent in the bumper when you hit one on hwy 7
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Re: There are no wolves in East Texas
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02/22/12 04:13 AM
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Sasquatch has just about purged this part of East Texas of all varmints! We're right down the street from two "verified" sightings... Per the Texas Bigfoot Research Center
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Re: There are no wolves in East Texas
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02/22/12 04:21 AM
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Sasquatch has just about purged this part of East Texas of all varmints! We're right down the street from two "verified" sightings... Per the Texas Bigfoot Research Center Isn't that just around the corner from the unicorn grooming place?
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Re: There are no wolves in East Texas
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02/22/12 04:23 AM
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Unicorn grooming is in Weches and they have another branch in Nogalus Prairie.
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Re: There are no wolves in East Texas
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11/09/12 02:13 PM
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I googled this looking for an answer. Yesterday while sitting in a deer blind in Blossom Tx I heard my friend hunting with me fire a shot. Something came hard and fast thru the woods I threw my gun up hoping for a big buck being flushed out and instead got a huge canine of some kind. Much larger than the biggest coyote I have ever seen. He was long legged and long bodied with a big front end and a heavier head. He went down a draw and came out amongst my inlaws horses in the neighboring pasture.not knowing what it was and being new to Texas I hesitated to even attempt a shot not knowing the laws regarding suspect carnivores and having seen the game warden that morning. On the way back to the truck my friend told me that thing was chasing a young healthy 8 pt. buck by itself. He said he was a little shaken the thing was dang near as big as the deer. He'd never seen anything like it either. I grew up in Missouri and have hunted coyotes growing up both for fun and recreation and the closest thing to it I have seen is a German Shepherd cross we had to clean oust when they were killing newborn calves. Those hybrids still weren't as long legged and bodied as this guy.
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Re: There are no wolves in East Texas
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11/09/12 02:37 PM
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This is a similar argument to the Colorado/Grizzly bear debate. The state of Colorado lists them as endangered, but does not actually recognize any population of grizzlies. And there have been numerous sightings since the last one was killed in 1979. IIRC, it was determined that the sow killed in 1979 had been pregnant twice before.
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Re: There are no wolves in East Texas
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11/09/12 03:09 PM
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I have many, many pictures of very large coyotes near our home that are easily mistaken for a wolf. Compared to the mangy, small coyotes you see all over the place, our coyotes look like they hit the all-you-can-eat buffet every night.
We live a mile from the Neches River, adjacent to the largest state forest in Texas. It is very wooded, very secluded, and a perfect hunting ground for varmints. Post some of the pics. Let's see these large yotes
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Re: There are no wolves in East Texas
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11/09/12 03:14 PM
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Idk bout now but my father hunted in clarcksville texas back in the 80's and he said he encountered timber wolves a couple of times
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Re: There are no wolves in East Texas
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11/09/12 03:43 PM
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Going on memory, the state of Texas says that the last proven sighting of a wolf in this state was 1974 in East Texas, and it was a Red Wolf. Like someone else said, it's thought that the red wolf and the coyote have interbred until the true red wolf no longer exists in Texas.
I did kill a coyote last year that weighed an even 50 pounds. Must've had some wolf blood, because I had never ever seen a coyote that size before. Normally I don't weigh them, but this one was a whopper, so I took him to the 'lie detector', which is what I call my good scale. Neighbors bring their 200 pound hogs over, and they usually weigh out at 150 or so, hence the name "lie detector".
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Re: There are no wolves in East Texas
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11/09/12 04:18 PM
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there absolutely have been wolves in east texas.
about 15 years ago there was a man raising wolves just south of frankston off the brushy creek area. He was the neighbor to a lease I hunted on. At some point, he had about 15-20 wolves and they escaped during a storm. Through the years a few were shot, one of which by a guy that I worked with in tyler. The story was confirmed by two different people (guy I worked with and the landowner I leased from) that had absolutely no relation to each other.
wild wolves? no idea. Wolves in general, absolutely.
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Re: There are no wolves in East Texas
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11/09/12 04:26 PM
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Closest I've seen is a 70lb coyote in a pic from several years back taken from Knox county I believe. Also saw one last weekend the size of a German Shepherd amongst cattle or I would have up close pics.
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Re: There are no wolves in East Texas
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11/10/12 08:02 AM
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I have many, many pictures of very large coyotes near our home that are easily mistaken for a wolf. Compared to the mangy, small coyotes you see all over the place, our coyotes look like they hit the all-you-can-eat buffet every night.
We live a mile from the Neches River, adjacent to the largest state forest in Texas. It is very wooded, very secluded, and a perfect hunting ground for varmints. Post some of the pics. Let's see these large yotes X2
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Re: There are no wolves in East Texas
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11/10/12 12:11 PM
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Another distinctive difference is that Wolves have a rounded ear tip, whereas coyotes are a pointed ear tip.
According to wildlife biologist at TPWD, SFAU, and TAMU, the red wolf is the only wolf that may still be in east Texas, but are very few in number. Duly noted:
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