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I've seen bad mange on coyotes in the wild but never had a hide brought in with  bad mange on it. When I say bad mange, I mean I don't think there is a coyote alive today that isn't carrying a mange mite or two. And when it gets to the point where the coyote is losing hair...Thats bad mange, the coyote is flat out sick.

I can remember reading somewhere where they were talking about the strong immune system of coyotes and their ability to fend off a number of fatal diseases. It went on about how if a coyote has mange bad enough to cause it to lose it's hair and is weak. It's going to die soon after. Something somewhere along the line got him sick enough to lower his immune system allowing the mange mite to over take the animal.

How much of that is actual fact, I really don't know, but I like to think were better avoiding handling them if their that bad.

 ~River Runner~


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