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16 August 2006

Hybrid mutant rat-dog found dead in Maine.
post by: mudpuppie at: 16:47 | 25 comments
eeeeewwww! I demand pictures! Also, what's a cryptozoologist?
posted by pieisexactlythree 16 August | 16:51
I searched for pics, couldn't find any yet.
posted by mudpuppie 16 August | 17:00
For five hundred bucks I know a guy who can put together a rat-dog for you in 48 hours. Only four hundred bucks if you supply the dog and the rat.
posted by Slack-a-gogo 16 August | 17:02
pie: cryptozoology. Man, I'd love to do that for a living. It's probably much less glamorous in real life, though.

Slack: Can I have his number? I've been wanting a hippo-puppy for ages.
posted by elizard 16 August | 17:12
Oh yeah, didn't Christian Slater play one of those in an Uwe Boll film?
posted by pieisexactlythree 16 August | 17:17
Chupacabra has come. My children, it is the time of the unraveling. All shall perish.
posted by weretable and the undead chairs 16 August | 17:18
Ruh roh.
posted by Specklet 16 August | 17:34
weretable beat me to the chupacabra! Rats! (ha ha ha ha clunk.)
posted by rainbaby 16 August | 17:42
Somebody go get that skull. Sheesh.
posted by warbaby 16 August | 17:57
My first thought was that, surely, it was Sam, the world's uglyest dog, but his alibi is pretty air-tight.
posted by lekvar 16 August | 17:58
A couple of pictures from this article but they're pathetically small.
posted by porpoise 16 August | 17:59
That looks pretty doggish to me. I was hoping for something more chupacabra-ish.
posted by small_ruminant 16 August | 18:01
That doesn't look like a rat at all. Nor especially evil. Evil smelling, perhaps.
posted by lekvar 16 August | 18:12
I want photos of this thing already!
posted by getoffmylawn 16 August | 18:30
Beast
posted by psho 16 August | 18:32
that is sad even if he was stinky.
posted by getoffmylawn 16 August | 18:49
Yuck. Looks like there some goat in there too (lending credence to the chupacabra theories), but those teeth look almost human to me.
posted by mudpuppie 16 August | 18:57
I may be the only one to say this, but I think this animal is beautiful. I feel sadness when I look at his face; not dread or terror. It strikes me as a lonely end to a lonely animal. Sad.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 16 August | 20:42
Wadda ya think it was? A jacked up dog? The body looks like a dogs, but that face... yeah I agree with LT, must have been pretty lonely.
posted by Divine_Wino 16 August | 22:02
Well shit. But if it was going around attacking things, what else would it be BUT lonely?
posted by mudpuppie 16 August | 22:15
It's the mainline quaker/catholic liberation theology liberal in me, pups, sympathy for all the sinners, hasn't quite been ground out of me by the whirling horrors of the real world, at least not for dog-things in Maine. If that thing was after my pets or my livestock I'd give it both barrels but I'd surely tip a glass and shed a tear in its honor after the shoveling was done.
posted by Divine_Wino 16 August | 22:28
Holy m'freakin cow. Am I the only who's going to have nightmares after seeing that picture? The eyes are so human looking...
posted by moonshine 17 August | 01:21
"This is something I've never seen before. It's an evil-looking thing," he said.

Ehh, it's an animal, probably much smarter than the average hysterical person.

Did anyone else think of the Weekly World News when they saw this?
posted by shane 17 August | 09:33
I work as a wildlife Photographer in the area where this beast was found and we have crossed paths several times. It was a ferril dog with bad breath, that was only interested in a free lunch. The dog was aproachable but aprihensive as was I, but i did manage to feed it a piece of my sandwich. Some morron kicked it out of the house and it has had to fight like hell to survive. The real story is about animal abandonment
posted by canteenathecow 29 August | 22:03
The picture is of a dog that suffered head tramma when hit by a speeding car. It baked in the sun for 4 days and got pecked on by a bunch of local vultures. That is when a curious neighbor went to see what all the ruckuss was about, and got some great photos.
posted by canteenathecow 29 August | 22:08
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