r/animalid • u/WhoIsGarth • 5h ago

Fox or Coyote 🐺 🐶 CANINE: COYOTE/WOLF/DOG 🐶 🐺

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Help settle a debate; is this a coyote or fox? Location is St. Louis area in Missouri.

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u/Vampira309 5h ago edited 1h ago

definitely a coyote.

Foxes are smaller, with less pointy snout and super fluffy tail with white or black tip

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u/WhoIsGarth 5h ago

Thanks for confirming for me!

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u/FlarktheNarc 1h ago

All true except for the fact that all foxes have a white top on their tail. All red foxes have a white tip but gray foxes do not have a white tip.

Edit: Forgot to add that the tip of a gray fox tail is black

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u/mmgturner 5h ago

Coyote. A red fox would be ginger with black points, and a gray fox is the size of a cat.

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u/WhoIsGarth 5h ago

That's what I thought. Thank you for confirming!

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u/deymanator40 2h ago

100% coyote

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u/Different-Travel-850 1h ago

Looks like a coyote. Pretty nice. Most the ones I see are eastern hybrid wolves but they mostly get called coyotes.

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u/AbulatorySquid 52m ago

It's mating season. They'll be seen more for a couple of months

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u/TheMichaelF1 39m ago

Good eats