I don't doubt you. Different places will have different situations but I'd bet it's a lot more rare in the wild than most "locals" believe.
People around here, until recently, referred to any dog-like wild animal as a "coy-dog". Now days, many are starting to realize that they are in fact just coyotes or, at worst, coy-wolf hybrids.
In all my years, I've seen wild dogs that were unmistakably one-time domestic, now a couple/few generations wild, and coyotes, that were unmistakably NOT closely related to, certainly in no way close to first generation coy-dog hybrids. Light colored, dark colored, solid and mottled and everything in-between, but clearly coyote.
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