100% Dog
Posted by: Loren Coleman on September 1st, 2006
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See my September 2, 2006, update on this story, at “Gone Where The Goblins Go”.
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The Lewiston, Maine, Sun Journal, in a late online update for September 1, 2006, is reporting that DNA results show that the animal carcass found on the side of Route 4 in Turner, Maine, belonged to a species that is 100% dog, according to HealthGene of Toronto.
Check back tomorrow for more details from Mark LaFlamme’s discussion and my thoughts on the matter.
Here I am with the carcass of the beast, a wee dog that grew to be a Maine Mutant Monster. Sun Journal photograph by Douglas Van Reeth. Used by permission. Click to enlarge.
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still think it was rediculous all this hype, but no one took the time to keep the body safe from scavengers.
I still say it was a plesiosaur.
>I still say it was a plesiosaur.
Haha! Brilliant.
Damn…who knew? HYPE…just a four letter word…
May this DOG finally rest in peace…
Later
D
Well, I’ll go to the foot of my sock!! A dog, was it?? WOW!
I thought the gills and wings were indicative of a more exotic species. Shows what I know.
Once upon a time this would have been a local event, covered in the local media. However, the ubiquity of communications technology has eliminated that kind of isolation in many ways. And with a media industry hungry for sensational items, this is what can happen. While the media hype was, as typical, overblown and even a bit deceptive, the actual investigations involved are the everyday nuts and bolts of cryptozoology. I say good work, Loren.
Heck I figured by now the dog could breath fire and be a crossbreed of a werewolf and dragon. But hey another myth bites the dust. Next Please.
Sturgeon for sure.
plesiosaur gets my vote !!!
Duh!