Check out this dog like creature

• Check out this dog like creature Firestorm Posted : 8/17/2006 10:22:05 AM Check out this dog like creature   [linkhttp://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/hybrid-mutant-found-dead-in-maine/20060816230009990002?ncid=NWS00010000000001]http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/hybrid-mutant-found-dead-in-maine/20060816230009990002?ncid=NWS00010000000001[/link]   Your thoughts? LIKE 25 REPLIES 2819 VIEWS LAST POST PUMAWARD Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Paulo Posted : 8/17/2006 10:25:10 AM Interesting to say the least.  Could be a wolf/wild dog hybrid.  0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• rwbeagles Posted : 8/17/2006 10:27:06 AM Looks like a smooth Blue Chow Chow to me...looks like the tongue is even blue along with the inside of the mouth.   Of course it smelled horrible IT WAS DEAD...and likely hadn't had a bath in years if it was running loose catching it's own food. Might've even recently dined on skunk!   People in Maine might crack me up....these are the same folks who swear the Maine Coon Cat is part raccoon! Must be all that cold and isolation from the rest of the USA, probably why Stephen King picked it, inspiration from the locals lmao...(ducking and hiding)...   ETA: link to smooth chow chow pages...look familiar? [linkhttp://www.chowchow.at/clsmooth.html]http://www.chowchow.at/clsmooth.html[/link] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• shamrockmommy Posted : 8/17/2006 10:28:13 AM Chow/coyote?   Or a chow mix gone feral?    I don't thikn it looks like a rodent mutant and as far as the stench well, ya it's dead LOL.  The things people say!   0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• sillysally Posted : 8/17/2006 11:09:35 AM It did look chowish..... 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Margaret Tyler Posted : 8/17/2006 11:16:32 AM Yep, chowish. Looking at the picture I felt bad for it. Nothing furry or even romotely dog like looks evil. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Julitza Posted : 8/17/2006 11:26:33 AM Definately a Chow or a chow mix, I mean get real what people will do for a story!!   As for the stench part I think they guy is referring to an incident where he got a glimpse of the animal when it was alive. If thats so it probably did reek rolling around road kill and skunks [8D]   And if this was a mutant 'thing' why were his only two killings towards dogs? You think a mutant wouldnt discriminate and would go after humans/cats/livestock etc. He was obviously smart enough to go after his kind 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• pumaward Posted : 8/17/2006 11:34:52 AM At first glance I thought it looked like a pure blue chow (as Gina said). I don't even see anything in the mix. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• jones Posted : 8/17/2006 11:46:59 AM Uh, EW! Little warning about the carcass photos next time please! [:'(][sm=lol.gif]   I don't see what would cause anyone to think that is not a dog... maybe an unattractive, rotting dog but a dog nonetheless.... 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• thedoc617 Posted : 8/17/2006 11:57:24 AM The only thing that sticks out in my mind that it is NOT a dog would be the teeth.   They almost look like the teeth of a herbivore (I see no canines) But it's not the best picture if you're just looking at the pearly whites- so maybe the canines are hidden. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• meilani Posted : 8/17/2006 12:09:39 PM ORIGINAL: thedoc617 The only thing that sticks out in my mind that it is NOT a dog would be the teeth. They almost look like the teeth of a herbivore (I see no canines) But it's not the best picture if you're just looking at the pearly whites- so maybe the canines are hidden.   I was going to say the same thing. The teeth don't look dog-like. It's a very interesting creature though. In all honesty, when I saw the head it kinda looks like it has the melon of a Hyena. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• jeano Posted : 8/17/2006 12:20:17 PM The eyes looked like those of a goat, so does the head shape. That's odd. But I agree it's a chow mix. They mentioned long canines in the article. But the grass is obscuring the nose. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Spazzy Posted : 8/17/2006 12:25:59 PM Evil creature? wow...   I don't see how that dog, could kill a doberman (it looks small in pic...) Crazy people, but they'll do anything for a good story, right. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• rwbeagles Posted : 8/17/2006 12:27:17 PM "It was charcoal gray, weighed between 40 and 50 pounds and had a bushy tail, a short snout, short ears and curled fangs hanging over its lips"   Lol...don't MOST dogs have canines that hang over their lower lips? This description says Chow all the way to me...   The smell could have been from Sebboreah a common skin ailment....blue dogs are often prone to any number of skin issues actually...and many of them have a bad or greasy smell that could be aplified thru neglect...also a viable reason someone would abandon a dog...unsightly skin condition that is labor intensive to treat. Festering wounds or ear infections can also smell extremely bad...poor dog was probably in a lot of pain and miserable...no wonder it had a horrible temperament and was people shy...Chows are not outgoing dogs even when socialized...with strangers. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Mia Posted : 8/17/2006 1:55:58 PM I just see a dog as well.  The only thing that bugged me were the eyes, but I expect that is death rather than anything else making them bulge.  Talk about bad pictures though, nothing like horrible angles to make identifying difficult.  I can see hints of canine teeth, but where the tips would be there is a blade of grass.  0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login