A coydog is a canid hybrid resulting from a mating between a male coyote and a female dog. Hybrids of both sexes are fertile and can be successfully bred through four generations. Similarly, a dogote is a hybrid with a dog father and a coyote mother.
Captive coydogs in Wyoming
A captive female coyote mating with a male dog, then nursing the resulting hybrids ("dogotes")
The coyote is a species of canine native to North America. It is smaller than its close relative, the gray wolf, and slightly smaller than the closely related eastern wolf and red wolf. It fills much of the same ecological niche as the golden jackal does in Eurasia. The coyote is larger and was once referred to as the American jackal by a behavioral ecologist. Other historical names for the species include the prairie wolf and the brush wolf.
Coyote
A closeup of a mountain coyote's (C. l. lestes) head
A Toltec pictograph of a coyote
Melanistic coyotes owe their color to a mutation that first arose in domestic dogs.