That’s the trouble with things like this. People who believe there is something pin their beliefs to any possible tangible evidence, so much so, that if the evidence is false, then in their minds the belief must be false. Ergo, because they believe that their belief is sound (Which indeed it may be), they will maintain unto their dying breath that the evidence, however flimsy and laughable, must therefore also be true.

Of course, the opposite is also true. Those who believe it must be false find possible tangible evidence that they can disprove and conclude that the entire phenomena must therefore equally be false. “Biscardi fakes Bigfoot” equals “Bigfoot is a fake” in their minds.

I’m beginning to think that we learn much more about human nature than zoological nature in examining all these cases…

When I heard about this story, I was excited that this might be a shunka warak’in. After looking at the photo carefully, I am inclined to agree with the folks here, that it is a poor messed-up hybrid dog of some kind. But it doesn’t look like a wolf, and defnitely not a coyote to these eyes. We never had a wolf, but we did have two coyotes. However a couple of things did strike me.

The shunka warak’in was said to cry and make screaming noises like a human being. Didn’t someone say a woman said it made odd noises unlike a dog? It came into the camps at night, not to get at people, but to kill dogs and carry them off as prey to be eaten. It was said to be difficult to kill because of its thick hide, and cried like a human being when it died. Not like a dog’s whining or whimpering, but rather like a human being’s cries.

Anyway, someone should do a DNA test. Also, it may be that a veterinarian (or vet student) could tell from the skeletal remains, especially the skull. Better yet, an archaeologist skilled in faunal analysis– they are practiced with variability in canids.