The Ursans smelled like a cross between wet coydog and rancid fish.

The occurrence of a coydog would be an extremely rare event in New York today."

"The incidence of coydog hybrids was high only in areas of expanding, widely dispersed coyote populations.

"Everybody's family was funny, except on the day you were driving toward them," a character observes in "Coydog," a story that unfolds almost entirely around the stove.

Wolf himself, the Amazing Minnesota Coydog, was lying in a cage in the shade of the porch overhang.

Wolf the Minnesota coydog looked like a half-starved German shepherd pup - and the runt of the litter, at that "What?"

A coydog is the hybrid offspring of a coyote (Canis latrans) and a dog (Canis lupus familiaris).

Maybe Mrs. Scooter would even have given him five bucks to babysit the tarantula, the rattlers, and Woof, the Amazing Minnesota Coydog.

They include that the creature is an undiscovered variety of wild dog, a waheela (said to be a giant prehistoric wolf similar to Amarok), or a wolfdog or a coydog.

To his left, Woof the Amazing Minnesota Coydog got to his feet, poked his snout through the crisscross of wire on the side of his cage, and barked.

On June 20, 2011, a 100-pound canid, apparently a coywolf or coydog attacked a 3-year-old Randolph County, North Carolina girl who was jumping on a trampoline with her older sister just outside their home.

Two separate terms have been invented, coydog and dogote, as the customary naming for hybrid animals is to derive the first portion of the name from the father and the second from the mother (cf. liger vs. tiglon).

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation casts doubt on the existence of naturally occurring coydogs in any significant number, at least in New York State, despite the widespread presence of coyotes: "Coyotes and dogs theoretically can interbreed to produce what is called a 'coydog'.