And this is coming from a Registered Veterinary Technician who has seen plenty of canines in this state from said aliment so, take my opinion for what it is.

It could be a coy-dog, but it looks more like a coyote. The slender, elongated muzzle is far more indicative of coyote than of dog. It does appear to be pregnant but that could be due to post-mortem swelling.

The “banding” is normal skin coloration. Most “natural-colored” canids, that is, canids with agouti (wolf-type) coloration, exhibit a darker swath of fur, varying in size, over the neck and shoulder area. The darker skin coloration corresponds to that swath of dark fur. Even a sable (tawny) collie, shaved down, exhibits this characteristic. Wild canids such as foxes, coyotes, and wolves all have some degree of sabling (black banding) in their fur, especially about the neck and shoulders. There is nothing unusual about subtly “banded” skin coloration in canids. It is the norm rather than the exception. It does not indicate striping of the coat but rather sabling, which is banding and tipping of the guard hairs. In wild canids the sabling is almost always black. In domestic breeds sabling is usually black, but can be blue or liver depending on recessive genes that surface from time to time in breeds such as shepherd dogs.

Now the drawing reminds me of a “dog” that a guy in town has that I’ve run into a few times. I always think “hyena” when I see it. He brought it into church one day. Creepy animal.

The difference is that that animal had a black muzzle like a hyena, the drawing looks like a fox, but with a very odd coat pattern.