Has anyone ever seen a fox/coyote with a ringed tail?

[TheBroker]

78. sighting in Indiana

First, to they guy who started this thread, I would urge you to find a popular forum that is not so difficult to post on (took me 15 min just to get to this point) can you imagine how many sightings you are missing because of the difficulty to reply?
So what I saw was a red fox, but he was bigger than a normal fox. He had a bushy tail and 3 (exactly 3, I'm sure of it) black rings at the end of his tail. So it was red tip, black ring, red, black ring, red, black ring...that was half his tail, the other half was red. That was the only black on him (the rings) and this is where I saw him. https://www.google.com/maps/@39.2335647,-87.5161964,515m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en he ran across the road from the left (west) to the right (east) right in front of my truck. I had to hit the brakes to keep from hitting him. This was May 2nd around 3pm. This was during the rain/flooding we had, the Wabash river isn't very far away, I suspect he could have been trying to stay out of the water, but thats just a guess. I had heard the term "ring tail fox" somewhere and assumed thats what it was, but kept forgetting to look it up until last night. I then discovered that what people called a ring tailed fox was actually some little cat like critter that looked nothing like what I saw. This page was the only thing on the net that matched what I saw.
I only live 2 miles from that spot, this weekend I intend to put out my trail cams (I have 20 acres of woods) But 2 miles is a long way, so I'm not very hopeful.
Side note, I found a page that had maybe 10 different variations of a standard red fox, black, white, etc. I'm wondering if this isn't perhaps some rare genetic variation and it is indeed...just a red fox? Just a thought!