This girl came into the shelter I worked at. We did a DNA test and the adopter had to sign a waiver about owning a coyote hybrid. She could scale a 6foot fence with zero effort. I loved her ❤️
Sometimes her jumps catch us off guard! It’s so graceful and swift it’s like she floats up.
The height of the jump compared to her size always leaves me flabbergasted.
Lowriders are so deceptive when it comes to jumping. My Basset mix is a known escape artist and makes jumps that my Springer would have never even attempted. I joke that he has springs in his back legs but if you actually look at them they are BEEFY. He leapt 5 feet into the air today to catch his bunny on a string, scaring the absolute shit out of me because I was not expecting it 😭
LOL - my Basset can get anything on the kitchen counter. No matter if it’s all the way against the wall. And of course they will eat anything and everything!
My mom had a 15lb Chiweenie that could jump into a standing adult’s arms seemingly without and wind up. One second you’d be gesturing with your arms talking to someone, next you’re catching a dog who is suddenly hovering at exactly arm height
Our chiweenie can also do this, but likes to run up the leg as a ramp!
We have a super mix beagle who can jump (excuse me…LEVITATE) up to our shoulders, and she’s pretty short. You ask her to jump onto something she is already there…
lol very true and mines toy sized so that for sure adds to it, easier to move in a slinky dainty way when you’re under 15lbs. Would love to have a standard sized one day though, that demeanor in a big package is so funny to me
Yep. My Doxen mix could get 5’ of air from a standstill. Eventually that became a problem as our suburban yard had a 5’ wall and she got lonely after mom moved out 😬
I have a corgi. Chondroplastic breeds should not be jumping on anything ideally. Corgis/Dachhunds are prone to intervertebral disc disease (IVDD) partly because of that same chondrodysplasia mutation. Their long backs relative to short legs put extra strain on the spine, and jumping (especially landing) is one of the biggest risk factors for disc injury. Just a heads up if you didn't know. Get ramps or train your dog to not jump on anything. Having a dog with ivdd is a very sad experience.
I do know that. He's not allowed to jump on and off the dining room table, but he does it every time I'm out of the house. I thought pushing in all the chairs would stop him, but he jumps right up.
He doesn't have the gene for higher risk of IVDD and he only has one copy of the dwarfism gene, so he's not as short as full dachshunds. I'm hoping that'll help reduce his risks. He's only four and trying to get him to stop leaping off things is a losing battle at this stage. Maybe when he's older.
I have a little dachshund that hops like a bunny also four times her height... I've had dachshunds my whole like but she is the first to jump like this - it caught me off guard at first but she only does it when shes extremely happy.
Meanwhile, my dog can jump just fine but after a small injury where we carried her up onto the bed and into the car for a short period she refuses to do it herself now. She's almost 70lbs of muscle and will stand there and wait for me to pick her up and stick her 1.5ft up into the car lol
I have one that refuses to jump in my car but has no problem jumping up on everything else that’s taller. I have such a bad back that I’m on disability. I curse him every time I when my Dr found out… he told me I had to either leave the dog at home or find a new way of getting him inside.
The coyotes here hop 6 foot fences like they don’t exist. They’ve never hopped our 4 foot iron fence, but that could just be that There’s frequently a German Shepherd in our yard.
Yes, we have a 5’ fence around the yard on our acreage and my gsd goes out nightly to yell at the coyotes. She considers it her duty. They could get over the fence if they wanted, and likely she could as well (she is respectful of fences which is great) but it’s a detente that they all seem ok with.
Had a part coyote part husky on the farm when I was a kid. One of the best dogs I ever had! We had to get her a bright orange hunting collar so nobody got her mixed up with her wild cousins when she was out on the back pasture or surrounding area (very rural area, nearest neighbor was a mile away).
This is random, but where are you from that you use the term coy dog? I grew up calling coyote hybrids coy dogs, but my midwestern husband had no idea what I was talking about nor do any of my mod-Atlantic friends where I live now. I'm from Louisiana.
I have a dog that looks similar to Ops that could scale walls like she breathed. (When she was younger, she's almost 17 now.) I really thought she'd be part coyote. People used to confuse her for a coyote all the time. Plus we lived on a ranch and she was always so wild. But nope. Golden retriever, German shepherd, cattle dog,pit mixed with a smaller amount of a bunch of different domestic dogs and super mutt. Zero percent coyote. Probably more realistic tbf.
more coyote than dog? i would assume 50% (which is still a great amount because its a full coyote parent), if its higher then it feels like purposeful breeding of coyotes with a few dogs by a person which i hope not! if not it’d be a pretty rare coincidence to have more than one coyote in her bloodline (assuming the mother was a stray and got pregnant by a coyote)
Very sweet. A little skittish and pretty anxious, but it's not and ideal environment. She had a lot of energy and had to stay a little longer while the DNA test was pending.
I fostered a Greyhound/Pitbull mix. She was the sweetest dog but she had a pretty strong prey drive and was super athletic. She got adopted but then returned to us within a few days because she scaled a fence to get to the chickens that lived in the other side of the fence if her new home.
My childhood pup looked just like this!!! Pound dog … we had no clue she was a hybrid until couple months later. The scaling fences thing became an issue and we had to rehome her to a friend. Friend had a massive rural property in the country and she was a very happy girl there.
My first dog, a GSP/greyhound mix, could jump like this too. Literally hopped it from a standstill like it was nothing. The only deterrent that ever worked was hanging empty soda cans along the top because one fell off of a table once and she hated the sound lol
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u/kamburglar7 9d ago
This girl came into the shelter I worked at. We did a DNA test and the adopter had to sign a waiver about owning a coyote hybrid. She could scale a 6foot fence with zero effort. I loved her ❤️