Comments on: C2C’s Cryptid Canid

By: Lyndon

Lyndon — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:13:34 +0000

Yikes! It’s obvious what it is.

It’s the Beast Of Bray Road, captured on film at last.

Ta daaaaaaaaaaa!

By: jrenn

jrenn — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:06:13 +0000

Its absolutely, without a doubt a coyote with mange.

By: Galea

Galea — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:46:45 +0000

No doubt about it, its a coyote with mange. Animals with mange look nothing like our common conceptions of them. The way the limbs are set on the body and the size of the tail rule out any sort of photo shop with a cat’s body. Thats a dog’s body for sure. The only comparison with a large cat would be the thin hair. IE the mange.

By: MountDesertIslander

MountDesertIslander — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:28:36 +0000

Do you really think that picture is photo shopped? I spent some time looking at the lighting and the patterns in the fur and got the impression it was a legit photo. Even though the head of this creature looks way too small for the body that is the only thing that looks overtly wrong. That in itself shouldn’t disqualify the photo as real. The blurring of the focus, coloring, and overall texture look consistent to me. A nice job of photo shop work if it is a hoax. A second shot, even if not as detailed, would go a long way in verifying this encounter. Hopefully the photgrapher snapped another.

Boy there is a lesson for all of use in this digital age. If you see something, snap away.

Comparing the Shunka Warak’in to the cryptid turns up some interesting corrolations between the two, especially in the body types and posture. It’s hard to fairly compare the heads even though the cryptid head still seems small to me. Only the hyena gives me that same impression of an undersized head.

Really an interesting photo if real that deserves some investigation.

By: CryptoMafia

CryptoMafia — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:48:42 +0000

I have to agree that the photo looks a bit fake.

An animal so elusive probably would have darted off at the first sign of humans, and there is a big, noisy looking building in the background, and it seems to be looking right at the camera.

Didn’t the shunka warak’in mount recently have some DNA testing?
Any word on the results?

However, I hope it is real. Very interesting looking body structure.

By: alandp

alandp — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:24:08 +0000

I got the same impression as omne51. When I first glanced at the photo, I thought it looked like a big cat.

By: maxmahoney

maxmahoney — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:13:32 +0000

Sorry but to me this looks like an animal such as a wolf or coydog or even a wolfdog with a severe case of mange!!! Mange is a parasitic infestation of the skin of animals. Common symptoms include hair loss, itching and inflammation, all of which are caused by microscopic mites. Mange is most commonly found in dogs and other canines, but it can occur in other domestic and wild animals. …

By: fmurphy1970

fmurphy1970 — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:05:01 +0000

Very strange indeed! Does look a bit like a hyena, except that the ears of a hyena are almost oval and stick up vertically. Wolves, dingos and other wild canid species also have their ears sticking up vertically too. Although when a wolf is in defensive mode, or feels threatened it can lower it’s ears to a horizontal position. See picture of an agressive wolf here:
http://www.blackfive.net/main/images/2007/09/28/angry_wolf.jpg

By: omne51

omne51 — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:04:26 +0000

I agree with otonabee. It looks to me like the body is feline, a large cat of some type, with a canid’s head photo-shopped onto the body.

Definitely a very nice looking animal, however!

By: Samson77

Samson77 — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:56:51 +0000

coypitbull