at dogpark - fox? or coyote? [Archive]

cyber-sibes

11-19-2005, 10:50 AM

At the dogpark yesterday at sunset, we were about to leave when the dogs ran to the fence facing a jogging path - there was a small animal lopeing along, it had dark legs & ears, and it sat down. Then came closer to the dogs and sat down again. It looked like either a fox or a very young coyote (we have both in this area) I couldn't tell. It seemed friendly & curious, like a young animal. Of course it ran off when I tried to get a picture, so it's blurry, especially the head. What do you think?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v432/cyber-sibes/foxfullframe.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v432/cyber-sibes/foxsharpened.jpg
My last chance to use my friend's digital, I returned it now. But here's my two at the park yesterday.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v432/cyber-sibes/hitherehandsome.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v432/cyber-sibes/Starcomecloseup.jpg

sammy101

11-19-2005, 10:58 AM

i think it looks like a fox,since his/her legs are a darker colour.
your two are gorgeous :)

Corinna

11-19-2005, 11:03 AM

Looks like a fox to me . Do you have cougars in your area? Except for the hairy tail looks long legged enough to almost makes me think of one.

.powerful

11-19-2005, 11:17 AM

It's most likely a fox. I don't think if looks like a coyote at all. The ones around here are a complete different color, and not as long

new mom to a veiled

11-19-2005, 12:14 PM

First off you babies are beautiful, and secondly IMO it looks really big to be a fox. In my area foxes are much smaller than that pic.....I dunno :confused:

gemini9961

11-19-2005, 12:15 PM

Looks like a fox to me as well.

cyber-sibes

11-19-2005, 01:08 PM

IMO it looks really big to be a fox. In my area foxes are much smaller than that pic.....I dunno :confused:
Yeah, at first I was thinking "fox", but it's legs were really long, and it moved more like a dog/coyote. Also the tail looked way too thin for a fox, but the coloring is right. It wasn't very big, so I wondered if maybe it's a young coyote. That's why I posted it, to see what you guys thought.

Mutt_Maniac

11-19-2005, 01:30 PM

I believe that, that DEFINATLY looks like a fox. I have seen a lot of fox and that definatly looks like one. Fox do have pretty long thin legs...
Here's some pics

very thin fox
http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/photos/cape_cod/images/fox%20in%20grass.jpg

http://estes.on-line.com/wildwatch/Images/Fox.JPG

pretty good pic of one
http://web.mit.edu/emsque/www/Chile/Day%203%20-%20Curious%20Fox.JPG

Jessika

11-19-2005, 01:53 PM

Definitely a fox. A coyote would be lower to the ground and is a little more scraggly :) Not to mention it looks redder and the facial markings are that of a fox.

Mutt_Maniac

11-19-2005, 02:26 PM

exactly lol

pitc9

11-19-2005, 02:58 PM

Yep, Fox!
But look how long it's tail is! :eek:

slleipnir

11-19-2005, 04:05 PM

It's tail doesn't look fluffy enough...:o Maybe it's just our foxes

cyber-sibes

11-19-2005, 04:15 PM

Mutt_Maniac : I believe that, that DEFINATLY looks like a fox. I have seen a lot of fox and that definatly looks like one. Fox do have pretty long thin legs...Here's some pics
Yup, it looked like a cross between the first one's color & body and the third one's tail, guess I've always thought of foxes looking like the second pic, kind of low to the ground and very furry. :rolleyes: I looked again tonight, no visiter!

ComedyDevil

11-19-2005, 04:23 PM

I've always thought of foxes looking like the second pic, kind of low to the ground and very furry.

Foxes round here ARE low to the ground and furry. If that's a fox, it's weird looking! I guess foxes across the pond look different. He/she's cool though! :D

clarebear

11-19-2005, 05:05 PM

I have just looked up pictures of coyotes and I have to say that it looks like a Fox.

Its too small and hairless to be a coyote. Spooky and cool pic

CagneyDog

11-19-2005, 05:05 PM

We have a huge coyote problem around here and we see several coyotes a week. It's so hard to tell from the pictures. I think the tail is wayyy to long to be a coyote's. However it doesn't look a fox either, I always thought fox's tails were fluffy?

lute

11-19-2005, 05:22 PM

it looks like a fox. too bad you couldn't get a better pic.

about a month ago i was lounging on my porch. i ended up falling asleep and was awoke by a fox licking my hand! :eek: it was probably the best thing i've ever encountered.

Vette

11-19-2005, 05:48 PM

Thats a Fox. :D

maybe it was moving so fast that the camera blurred a lot of details together. like you get with a lot of action shots with fast moving 'targets'. and thats why its tail doesnt look so bushy.. ect.

also some Foxes vary in color and size. like the Red Tailed Fox i think is the most furriest Fox there is.. and with the bushiest tail(during the winter) and the Gery Fox has way less fur then with less bush on the tail compaired to the Red Tailed Fox. theres even an Artic Fox.. whith a brown coat during spring/summer.. then during winter.. its coat goes snow white. and then theres Bat Eared Foxes(or Fenche Foxes) :D those are so cute.

heres a picture of a Red Tailed on the move in summer.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/VettesPetz/FoxOnTheMove.jpg

and heres a pair of Red Tails during winter. notice the difference in coat?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/VettesPetz/Foxes.jpg

buttercup132

11-19-2005, 06:55 PM

lmao it looks like a kangaroo!!!!

bark_some

11-19-2005, 06:59 PM

It looks like a Fox to me, but I'm no expert. What would a young wild animal be doing on a trail? Hopefully she wasn't hurt, and hopefully she wasn't lost.

elizabethann

11-19-2005, 07:03 PM

Alysser

11-19-2005, 07:09 PM

It looks like a fox to me. It has the coloring of a fox. Yet, the skinny tail puzzles me!

Jessika

11-19-2005, 07:15 PM

lol you guys, foxes can have skinny tails as someone above posted pics, it shows you ;)

Uabassoon

11-19-2005, 07:19 PM

If you look at the face on the second picture, it looks like a cat. I'm think Bobcat? It's not a fox. Fox have bushy tails (at least the ones where I live do). Do you have Bobcats in your area?

Just my .02 cents.

:D

It can't be a bobcat. They don't have tails.

After seeing the picture that Vette posted I really think it's a fox.

Alysser

11-19-2005, 07:40 PM

Oh, thanks for pointing that out Jessika lol! I am so stupid :rolleyes:

CagneyDog

11-19-2005, 07:47 PM

But why is the tail so long? None of the fox pictures that were posted have really long tails!

Toby's my baby

11-19-2005, 08:19 PM

Looks like a fox to me too!

Jessika

11-19-2005, 08:30 PM

Oh, thanks for pointing that out Jessika lol! I am so stupid :rolleyes:

You're not stupid, you just over looked the pics! :)

shais_mom

11-19-2005, 11:54 PM

Looks like a fox to me . Do you have cougars in your area? Except for the hairy tail looks long legged enough to almost makes me think of one.
I live about 20 miles of where cyber sibes lives and we do not have any cougars around here.

Do you have Bobcats in your area?

Negative for that also

It is most likely a fox but rather long legged - so it could be a young coyote. Or a coy - dog - all are very thick around here.

When I lived at home we had a fox bust thru the screen in a hold under out house and attempt to make a nest. It was very very sick looking and had to be disposed of. :(

jesse_3

11-20-2005, 12:26 AM

That looks like the fox up here in Nort'ern Minnesota! Our fox don't have very bushy tails at all. Then again, look at squirrels, one has a HUGE fluffy tail, then you come across one that looks like you took a lawn mower to the tail!

Steph and the gang

flamepony12

11-20-2005, 09:56 AM

Yep, Fox!
But look how long it's tail is! :eek:

my thoughts exactly! :eek:

it looks like a hyena in the second one. xD But there obviously aren't any in your area. ;)

Kfamr

11-20-2005, 10:38 AM

Looks like a fox, in my opinion. It looks to be running, and the picture is blurry, so that could possibly be why the tail looks so long.

Sherman and Star on the other hand, what cute babies! I think Star would enjoy a long brushing. :D

slleipnir

11-20-2005, 10:41 AM

I never said it didn't look like a fox, or wasn't a fox :P

Kfamr

11-20-2005, 10:49 AM

I never said it didn't look like a fox, or wasn't a fox :P

Who/what are you replying to? :confused:

cyber-sibes

11-20-2005, 01:03 PM

Well, looks like the majority opinion is skinny-tailed long-legged fox of some sort! I'll continue to keep an eye out at the park, maybe one day we'll spot him again! Shai's mom - coy-dogs? I know we have coyotes, one got hit on the road in front of my neighbors last week. :( And I haven't heard any sightings of cougars close by, although they've been seen north of here in Mich. and in Illinois.
Kfamr- believe it or not, I've brushed two grocery bags full of fur off that Star girl already! She's finally about done shedding. And while she may need a long brushing, she sure doesn't enjoy it- it takes two of us to hold her still, she reeeaaaally doesn't like being brushed! LOL!
Buttercup - LOL! definitely not a kangaroo, but here's Sherman doing his "Kangaroo" pose:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v432/cyber-sibes/PT%20gift%20swap/30-shermykangaroo.jpg
Thanks for the opinions, everyone!

4 Dog Mother

11-20-2005, 04:06 PM

The first thing I thought of when I saw the picture was kangaroo too LOL! I didn't think fox or coyote because the picture doen't look like my mind's eye of them. We saw a fox run across the road on SR 12 W coming from Kathy's and Kathy said she had seen one on her way to work one morning. This one was short and had the bushy tail. So I didn't think your picture looked like a fox but with the pictures others added, I guess there are different kind of foxes and probably is one. That hill in the dog park with the holes in it and the trees was a fox den before they filled the holes in. So it makes sense that it was a fox!

4 Dog Mother

11-20-2005, 04:14 PM

Carl just looked at the pictures and said it is definitely a fox - to him the give away is the pointy nose! (for what his opinion is worth)

Cinder & Smoke

11-20-2005, 04:32 PM

That hill in the dog park with the holes in it and the trees
was a fox den
before they filled the holes in.

:cool:

'Splains why ALL the FurKids like to Dig & Hunt under the BigTrees!

(Nebber knew that!)
;)

Vette

11-20-2005, 04:40 PM

A few other Fox picturse i found.
i think its definitly a Fox..

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/VettesPetz/GreyFox.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/VettesPetz/running1-109001.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/VettesPetz/foxes.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/VettesPetz/foxontherun.jpg

its a bronz Fox.. but i coudlnt find any good pictures with the legs in the same posionion as cyber-sibes photo except this bronz thing...LOL

shais_mom

11-20-2005, 04:48 PM

Shai's mom - coy-dogs?!
well at least in Hardin County where my parents live - due to the assinine Coon Dog trials they have a high incidence of dogs being left there fore turning wild and mating with the existing coyotes. Hence - coy-dog. :)

areias

11-20-2005, 04:52 PM

I think it's too big to be a fox. It's possible, but I think it looks similar to a coyote. I hit a coyote about a month ago...saw it right in my headlights, it looked similar and had just as long of a tail. The legs looked too long to be a fox. But we'll probably never know, so...yeah. :confused:

cocker_luva

11-20-2005, 05:45 PM

i think its a fox too

ramanth

11-21-2005, 09:22 AM

Definitely a fox. The white tipped tail and black legs give it away as well as the nose. Looks just like the foxes roaming around here. :D

And Sherman and Star are so cute!

What did they think of the fox?

MyLittleMutt

11-21-2005, 09:36 AM

Looks like a fox to me.

lv4dogs

11-21-2005, 09:42 AM

Looks just like a fox to me. I see lots of foxes in my area of foxes with longer legs, skinnier tails etc...
Keep in mind that mange is very common in foxes, therefore making the coat thinner than it should be too!