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By his side was his best friend and the Beers’ other family dog, Lucy. “They’ve been together for gosh going on 6, maybe 7 years now and grew up together and whatnot,” Beers said.

Their article, “Assessment of wolf-coyote-dog admixture using ancestry-informative diagnostic SNPs,” appears in the January 2014 issue of the journal Molecular Ecology (subscription required).

The video shows the coyote leaping over a fence in pursuit of her and her dog, Brody. "I was flabbergasted that it hopped the fence," she said. "Then I started running." ...

Their article, “Assessment of wolf-coyote-dog admixture using ancestry-informative diagnostic SNPs,” appears in the January 2014 issue of the journal Molecular Ecology (subscription required).