Our coyotes here in the east have been interbreeding with dogs for years, to the point that they're sometimes referred to as coydogs. They vary some from region to region but they've generally gotten quite large, nothing approaching the size of a wolf but definitely in the German Shepherd range, with bushy coats and tails. They've kept the high-pitched voice and the stiff-legged running gait of the coyote. We had one loner in our neighborhood in the Catskills. I caught him a couple of times watching me from a distance.
I agree though, the problem with the dog blood in them might lend them having less fear of humans, or at least more of a leaning to overcoming that fear than a pure coyote, if there are even any of them left up in this part of the country.
Still, any animal can lose that fear if there's enough contact with humans. It's often associated with the food we leave around, and I'd suspect some of that along a popular hiker's trail. Still talking about the Catskills, we had a big black bear boar who denned up on the mountain we were on and he had a path to a sleep-away camp about a mile up the valley from us where he'd raid the dumpster on a regular basis, while the campers hung around and snapped pictures. I recall well being up by the barn one day when he came strolling down a tote road that came out of the woods. With one exception, all I'd ever seen of bears in the woods was their hind end scooting away after they'd seen me first. Not his fellow. I figured he hadn't seen me, so I hollered and gave a big wave. He never startled or ran. He never indicated he'd charge at me, but he changed his path to come down toward me. I had the pickup up there and could have gotten in and away from him if I'd had to, but I just reached in and gave a few blasts of the horn, which wasn't enough to give him a start, but he did go back to his path up toward the place with the dumpster.
Of course it didn't help any that our back line bordered the state land that makes up the Catskill Forest, which is a destination for problem bears transported from further downstate.
Coyotes or bears, I never worried about the simple fact of them being around, but one that hangs around or doesn't skedaddle when I look them in the eye even over a distance is worrisome.
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