I have often wondered the same thing but the few “brave” folks I have talked to that have eaten wild canine gave it less than stellar reviews.
Plus Coyotes and Wolves are the carriers of Hydatid disease which I am told is a worm type parasite who’s eggs are found in the hair, feces, gut, etc of wild canines. When these eggs are ingested or inhaled the hatch in your body and form cysts in such places as the lungs, liver or even the brain which in the last example is fatal.

While I personally have no interest in shooting a wild dog, I applaud you for considering eating it. I suppose it all depends on what the dog was eating, small child, elk, moose, jogger, or mice.

Personally, I wouldn’t kill one unless I had to. As far as eating them goes, I have been told that as soon as you take a whiff of that first coyote you clean you would abandon all thoughts of eating it….

Eating a predator was one reason BBQ sauce was invented!! Slow, long cooking to a WELL done level and lots of BBQ sauce allows a person to eat just about anything. You might also search an Asian cooking/receipe database for some ideas. 😉

The buzzards are going to be sooo disappointed!:lol:

Wow – Nasty list of parasites! Takes coyotes off of my menu.:shock:

Coyote recipie–
1 medium coyote cubed
4 onions diced
6 potatoes cubed
3 garlic cloves
1 large cast iron dutch oven
5 quarts of water

Combine all ingredients in dutch oven.
Build a medium to hot fire
place pot in fire and simmer for 72 hours
When complete empty contents of dutch oven into approved Has Mat container and eat the lid to the dutch oven.

Sorry I just cant imagine eating coyote..

I did a little research on Hydadid desease because it sounded familiar from my microbiology class. Here is what I found. It’s a bit lengthy and I could go on more about the epdemiology of the parasite but you will get the picture. I find this stuff quite interesting.

Dan

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

“Echinococcosis, which is often times referred to as hydatid disease or echinococcal disease, is a parasitic disease that affects both humans and other mammals, such as sheep, dogs, rodents and horses. There are three different forms of echinococcosis found in humans, each of which is caused by the larval stages of different species of the tapeworm of genus Echinococcus. The first of the three and also the most common form found in humans is cystic echinococcosis (also known as unilocular echinococcosis), which is caused by Echinococcus granulosus. The second is alveolar echinococcosis (also known as alveolar colloid of the liver, alveolar hydatid disease, alveolococcosis, multilocular echinococcosis, “small fox tapeworm”), which is caused by Echinococcus multilocularis and the third is polycystic echinococcosis (also known as human polycystic hydatid disease, neotropical echinococcosis), which is caused by Echinococcus vogeli and very rarely, Echinococcus oligarthus. Alveolar and polycystic echinococcosis are rarely diagnosed in humans and are not as widespread as cystic echinococcosis, but polycystic echinococcosis is relatively new on the medical scene and is often left out of conversations dealing with echinococcosis, and alveolar echinococcosis is a serious disease that not only has a significantly high fatality rate but also has the potential to become an emerging disease in many countries.

Echinococcus eggs contain an embryo that is called an oncosphere or hexcanth. The name of this embryo stems from the fact that these embryos have six hooklets. The eggs are passed through the feces of the definitive host and it is the ingestion of these eggs that lead to infection in the intermediate host.

From the embryo released from an egg develops a hydatid cyst, which grows to about 5-10 cm within the first year and is able to survive within organs for years.[9] Cysts sometimes grow to be so large that by the end of several years or even decades, they can contain several liters of fluid. Once a cyst has reached a diameter of 1 cm, its wall differentiates into a thick outer, non-cellular membrane, which covers the thin germinal epithelium. From this epithelium, cells begin to grow within the cyst. These cells then become vacuolated and are known as brood capsules, which are the parts of the parasite from which protoscolices bud. Often times, daughter cysts will also form within cysts.

Echinococcus adult worms develop from protoscolices and are typically 6mm or less in length and have a scolex, neck and typically three proglottids, one of which is immature, another of which is mature and the third of which is gravid (or containing eggs). [11] The scolex of the adult worm contains four suckers and a rostellum that has about 25-50 hooks.

As one can see from the life cycles illustrated above, all disease-causing species of Echinococcus are transmitted to intermediate hosts via the ingestion of eggs and are transmitted to definitive hosts by means of eating infected, cyst-containing organs. When thinking about transmission, it is important to remember that humans are accidental intermediate hosts that become infected by handling soil, dirt or animal hair that contains eggs.

An adult worm resides in the small intestine of a definitive host. 2) Afterwards, gravid proglottids release eggs that are passed in the feces of the definitive host. The egg is then ingested by an intermediate host. 3) The egg then hatches in the small intestine of the intermediate host and releases an oncosphere that penetrates the intestinal wall and moves through the circulatory system into different organs, in particular the liver and lungs. Once it has invaded these organs, the oncosphere develops into a cyst. 4) The cyst then slowly enlarges, creating protoscolices and daughter cysts within the cyst. The definitive host then becomes infected after ingesting the cyst-containing organs of the infected intermediate host. 5) After ingestion, the protoscolices attach to the intestine. 6) They then develop into adult worms and the cycle starts all over again.”

Wolves can carry a number of very bad diseases. You don’t even have to dismember them in order to contract the diseases. Some of which can be found merely on their feces.

I have never eaten a wolf or coyote and do not intend to. But a bear and a cougar are predators and I would eat either one. Cook your bear meat well.