the tail of Chows and most Akitas are often building a wide circle by their muscle tension. the dead dog does not expose those thing, but think about it, he’s dead so no muscle tension anymore.

let me be a bit entertaining… doent it look like Benji or Boomer just fallen in a bin with black ink? i am sure, some of the people would say yes to that, just because agreeing is easier than disagreeing…

With some research i got to a forum pointing out it could be a Chow. Of course wikipedia describes chows as rather wide in color, hair and eyes
varietys. Black and blue are
definitely valid colors but yet not
that wiedespread as those dogs are
a bit more costly than others.

Look at those Chow Chow puppy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Blackchowpuppy.JPG

It closely matches the eyes, the mouth and even the eyes. Other adult Chow Chow attributes might match a bit less, like the leg length and diameter. Chow is known to me as a dog with square side proportinality. The car victim rather indicates a lengthy base structure, some called it to be swine alike. Of course there are swine alike dogs. Please note that the “hips” and therefore the tail are wider than by most sheep dogs.

Inspired by suggestions here in the
forum i found an image link to this one:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Star.jpg

I think it already comes close if you ignore the color mismatch. In the photo it’s an American Akita (previousely Great Japanese Dog) – not to confuse with “native” Akita (Inu and Ken jsut means dog in japanese).

I am not sure what mixture the dog in question is. If a chow is involved, then there is likely a second breed involved. The leg and tail might be the best hint for that one or two other line of genes. The mouth, ears, eyes, face, color and fur would fit into chow. Maybe the shown American Akita has already with some chow in it, at least he is already one of many flavours of its base race.

Concerning the horror stories… on a farm in my area they had some 10 new cats every year, and due to the fact that the road is only a few 10 meters away, the farmers daughter brought it to the point with this “any few weeks one of the puppys vanished”. Its just that you might interconnect anything unresolfed with a single solution as
soon as you see reason for building a row. In former times, the “beast” would
have been gulty of drought, rain and whatever if having been in sight
or even after beeing dead for sure.

http://web.mac.com/gmustico/iWeb/Site/Welcome_files/IMG_0662.png

My gut instinct tells me it’s more likely a wolf/dog hybrid. Wolves are not “fighters”, per se. Many were tried, hybrids included, in the pit against fighting dogs, most notably, the Pit Bull, and they were found lacking. Since the animal reportedly killed a rottweiler and a doberman, I am more inclined to believe that a fighting breed, e.g., pit bull, tosa, pit bulldog, etcetera, might be a likely candidate for the cross.

One thing that sent a shudder through me was the placement of the eyes: I was struck at how human-like they appeared.

The mystery solved …an ordinary dog.

Good job guys and gals!!! LOL