I am in the middle of writing up an analysis of two footprints - possibly thylacine - and I would love to see what that dew claw does for the animal’s footprint.

If anyone does know where I can see such a footprint, please let me know. (Did anyone keep the foot? Feel like making a plaster cast?? :D)

This dog appears to be a Chow Chow. Chows do come in a blue color, kind of a blue-grayish hue. These dogs can also have a slate-gray pigment and even slate-gray eyes which would explain the eye color.

The dog appears to be in relatively good shape - except that it’s dead. If I’m not mistaken, from the looks of the lumps on the dogs belly it would appear that they are nipples, and that it may be a female dog who has been nursing puppies. So it would be a shame that instead of just one dead dog there would now be as many as six - seven dead ones now if indeed it had been nursing a litter.

It’s just sad that nobody in the area had taken more time to check things around a little more thoroughly and possibly found out that it was just somebody’s abondoned dog who needed someone to take the time to offer it a helping hand and prevented it’s unfortunate death.

It’s also a shame to learn that local health/wildlife officials failed to take any action regarding these ’strange’ animal reports.

But all-in-all what was found there is nothing more than ‘Canis familiaris’ or better known as a domestic dog. Too bad it had to die like that, though.

Wayne