It does sound like a coyote, but as Jim said, they look just like a dog. In fact that's what they really are is a wild dog. Around here some folks call them coyotes, some folks call them wolves.

I THINK if it had been a Fox you would have been able to tell more by the way it ran. A Fox really goes fast with almost invisible leg movement when in a dead run, while a coyote runs like a dog. Kind of hard to describe the difference. Also the bushy tail of a Fox gives it away.

We have gone through periods around here where we are REALLY covered up with coyotes. Right now they're sort of in the middle of a down swing. I hear them often an hour or two before Sunrise when they are yelping for others to join back up and head to their den area for the day.

When you hear them they really fool you about their location. It sounds like they're 100 feet away, but they are actually much farther.

The old wives tale is that if you kill one and hang it over the fence it will keep them away, but I've never seen much evidence of that. When I've seen them hung over the fence, it still seems that I hear just as many in their normal locations.

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