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What the heck...?
Looks like a very ugly dog, dont know what the heck that is. Maybe a real Hollywood style werewolf
Interesting.

Thats one ugly critter.

Silverclaw wrote:http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jgIX ... j3lr62Yczw
What the heck...?
Looks like a very ugly dog, dont know what the heck that is. Maybe a real Hollywood style werewolf
Interesting.

Thats exactly what it is. An ugly dog.

Here in Texas...even.

Saw this on CNN or something, i just think its some weird dog.

Well, haven't seen anything like that before.
What's weird is that it's still licking its muzzle. You can see the tongue plantted on it.

It does looks like an odd looking dog.

Oh I saw this. I think it looks like a cross between a pig and a dog or something o.O

But I find it rather creepy that this lady plans to put it on her wall...

Yea I was thinking some weird boar/dog like thing.

I'd say it's a dog. Some sort of mutt, probably had a bad case of mange. I realize it's roadkill but the thing doesn't look like it was a healthy animal.

O.O that's weird.... could it have had mange?

it looks kinda like a big fox, or coyote...

Wulfur wrote:Yea I was thinking some weird boar/dog like thing.

Ditto, It diffinatly looks like a crossbreed.

Just an ugly, likely diseased, mutt of a dog.

Nothing more and nothing less.

mangy dead fox (litterally)

According to the news, there were three carcasses found, not just one. The woman saved the best preserved head, that's all.

Now, just based on the shape of the dammit; it's not a dog or dog cousin.
The fangs are all wrong, too- for a canid.

I wish the person who found it had also preserved a foot or paw, that'd tell a whole lot. It actually seems more mustelid than anything else; and if it is a mustelid (weasels, and their kin) it's off the charts as to size.

I'm going to try to keep following this; there's something off-square, here.

Didn't they just find onna these 'bout a year er two ago here in West Texas? An' it turned out ta be diseased foxes?

Thats one strange looking animal. I can care less on what kind of an animal is that,yet it's out of the ordinary. Maybe some faulty half bred .

RedEye wrote:According to the news, there were three carcasses found, not just one. The woman saved the best preserved head, that's all.

Now, just based on the shape of the dammit; it's not a dog or dog cousin.
The fangs are all wrong, too- for a canid.

I wish the person who found it had also preserved a foot or paw, that'd tell a whole lot. It actually seems more mustelid than anything else; and if it is a mustelid (weasels, and their kin) it's off the charts as to size.

I'm going to try to keep following this; there's something off-square, here.

This quote has the most logical reasoning in it. It provides reasons for the conclusion. Although I have no idea what the "dammit" is...

RedEye wrote:The fangs are all wrong, too- for a canid.

Eh? I've seen dogs with teeth like that before.

The "Dammit" in question, this time, is the animal's head. I didn't feel that "Do-hickey, whatchamacallit, thingamabob, or whatsis" was really appropriate.

And the "Fang" is set too far back in the jaw for comfort, to call it a dog or dog relative. Plus, the ear-shape is just not really canid in apparent structure. It almost looks like a Hyena; but again the dammit (the head) is too large and the jaw too square.
The braincase and jaw almost make it look like a Dire-Wolf relative (extinct) but- there's no hair, and no evidence that there was any hair on the head. I really do wish that there had been a paw or foot saved; that would make classifying it a lot easier.
Another question: why were there three bodies, apparently close together, all apparently deceased at nearly the same time?
Something smells funny here, and I don't mean the carcasses...

Update

They found out what it really is here:
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/texas-myst ... 0000000001

Though, of course, its really a government cover-up

Mmmm...Fugly

According to the News, again; these are just plain old Coyotes, according to their DNA. "Perfect match" is what the lab said.
Ri-i-i-i-ght. Given that: One> Coyotes have fur. Two> They're Canids-although in their own phylum. Three> Do not in the least resemble what these critters look like...

Plus: research has given more sightings of these "Coyotes" in Texas, alive and still hairless; and that they make a sound that more resembles a shriek than a Howl, and have been in various local news reports for some years...

Either there is more in the Coyote genome than we expected, or there's something seriously wrong here. Genomic Identification rarely says that something is a "perfect match", since that would mean that it shares 100% of all genetic material, and outside of Single-egg twins, that doesn't happen. What you expect is "Genetic Proximity" or "Genetically Similar" terms, not "Perfect match".
Of course, that might just be a Newsroom simplification for us stoopid readers.

Fact is, I've hunted Coyotes (with a camera, this time) and after looking through a viewfinder at several dozen of the critters; I am willing to say-
this isn't one of them. It doesn't even resemble a Coyote much; there are even some pig-like features on the animal (Javalina + Coyote? =very sore Coyote IMHO.)

They're still trying to figure out why they're hairless.

I still say they had mange. For those of you who've never seen it, this is what mange does to an animal.

RedEye wrote:and that they make a sound that more resembles a shriek than a Howl

Makes me think of a fox.

RedEye wrote:It doesn't even resemble a Coyote much; there are even some pig-like features on the animal

And RedEye...pig features? What the hell are you talking about? Are we even looking at the same creature? (And I know very well what a pig looks like, thankyoumuch. Practically grew up on a damn farm...) Though I do agree it doesn't look much like a coyote.

Just remember what Steven Colbert had to say. It is not a Chupacabra it is a wild mutated dog that bites the heads off chickens and drinks their blood. Nothing to be afraid of =P