FOUND PUPPY! very shy
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This is from the nextdoor littlepine web site. Suburban Asheville NC.
Susan Mitchell
Big Ivy • 15 hr ago •
FOUND PUPPY!!!. very shy. by forks of ivy plaza.
900-910 Old Mars Hill Highway, Weaverville, NC
10 Comments
Jay Williams
• Beech Glen
Looks like s/he has some Coyote or Fox characteristics. Wonder if mom was a domestic dog and dad was a travelin' man.
Susan Reed
• Clarks Chapel Road
Oh my!!poor baby...Have you found help for the pup? It needs help badly. Thank you so much for taking it in. please let us know…
Susan Reed
• Clarks Chapel Road
Is it drinking or eating?
13 hr ago
Ada Khoury
• Beech/Blackberry Inn
She probably should have a vet take a look at her?
James Singleton
• New Leicester/Don Felmet
Check for distemper if animal is easy to catch. Could be ill.
Kathy Siebert Wischmeier
• Wolf LaurelThat's a coyote pup
Bobbie Pyron
• Mars Hill
Agree: most likely a coyote pup. I would contact the Western Carolina Nature Center and see what they recommend. https://wildwnc.org/
58 min ago
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Looks like a yotie to me....surprised it is so timid. Must be sick or injured in some way.
To tie into Oakies glasses thread, since it seems a few of us are optically challenged;
Bob
That is not a lost puppy.............it is a young coyote.
Coyote for sure. Meet Cody, a “pet coyote” I had for over 7 years. Got him as a pup when he was about the size of the one in the picture.
Merlin: how was the coyote for a pet?
He was ok. Couldn’t disclipine him or try to train him like you would a dog. Used to take him for rides in my 34 Ford pickup. Would get lots of looks and questions from people. He was not viscous and was reasonably friendly with strangers. We had chickens that would hang around his pen and torment him. One day when I came home from work, there was Cody, lying down in the grass with his front legs crossed and all the dead chickens laid all around him! He had gotten out of his pen and got even with all those friggin chickens!
Cool story @Merlinnv12
So was that the end of Cody
JMHO
He was just doing what nature instilled and a lot of dogs would have done
No implied good or bad just a question
We had a pet racoon almost 40 years ago
And it had a sad ending .
No, D/R. Cody lived a long life. I had him for 7 years and left him with a neighbor when I moved to an Airpark where I could not keep him.
glad to hear he had a good life , I am sure he got a lot of attention
if it had went the other way I would have understood
for a short time about 25 yrs ago for just about two weeks or so , we had a I would say mostly wolf mix dog ( I know they have a name for the breed just can not recall it ) that showed up at our place he was super friendly no aggression at all I knew he was some ones pet and we had no luck finding the owner he was handsome and large fellow but could see he was restless .
I came home one day from work and he decided he wanted to go home or just to be free again he pulled the latch ( ripped it off the door of the shed ) we never seen him again , I always hoped he found his way home and no farmer or local shot him .
I have done my share of SSS and even hunting but I have a huge soft spot for most animals
Ken
A few months back we had a couple opossums hanging around not uncommon but they had me thinking
I was amazed at the stories on youtube of people keeping them as pets also learned a lot more about them in the process they only live two or three years just a little longer as pets but not much
Even the internet prased them and said give them a pass and they are cleaner than cats about grooming them self
Silly I know but spend a few minutes reading bout them
Hunters in this area,especially deer hunters hate coyotes with a passion.I am a deer hunter but I could never bring myself to hate,and I sort of admire their survival wit of old mr coyote. Coyotes kill deer for survival and most of us humans kill deer for entertainment.
Possum, it's the other white meat. Yes their lifespan is two years. That seems harsh for such a magnificent creature but I love possums and their traits.
Bunches of them.here . Small game has been almost completely wiped out . Time to learn how to hunt them .
This one is for you @Grasshopper , right out of "Granny's Kitchen!"
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My cousin's husband had an albino one..it was a big baby..he wouldn't have took 10 thousand dollars for that critter...