Fearsome critters!

 

No domestic canine has dentition like this shows.  The closest you could come would be an Eastern Coyote.  I once owned a Coyote-Dog Hybrid, the teeth are splayed outward, where a domestic has dentition that has an inward slant.  Also, notice the lower jaw.  I have never seen that severe an under bite in any dog.  Something like that could be an adaptation, rather than a genetic failure.

 

Reference- "America's New Wolf"  by Gene Letourneu

 

 

 

I guess it could be, but the Coyote-Dog hybrid that I owned was a good looking animal.  Longhaired, silver, white and grey. The Amish out in Lancaster bred them for cattle dogs, it was a "type" of dog usually called the Lancaster Farm Collie.  It's been gone for decades, the one I owned was 18 when he died, and quite possibly the last of the type. 

The most notable difference between dog and coyote is the lay of their teeth.  Coyotes and what they call Coydogs have a wild mouth.  The teeth splay outwards, on a domestic dog they have an inward slant.

If you put hair on the animal in the pic. it still woudn't look like a coyote entirely.  A healthy Coyote is an attractive animal, this is just plain, butt ugly.

 

Nick, you might be able to find a copy of "America's New Wolf" on the net.  It was written by my wife's late uncle, Gene Latourneu, Guy Gannett Publishers.  Gene was considered the "Dean" of Maine outdoors writers.  In the late 40's he became aware of a resurgence in Coydogs in Northern Maine.  Hunters started to tell him of these animals and they became a study of his.  Since he wrote the book, the Coydog has spread south as far as Virginia.

 

 

 

Also "Tall Man" and "Skunk Ape".

 

 

 

 

 

yup...then there's Momo..Yowie..Meh-teh..Raksha..Kikomba...The Great Bear. Depends on who and where.