Comments on: Maine Mutant #6 in 2006

By: LaFlamme

LaFlamme — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 09:05:18 +0000

The beast story caused a lot of frustration for experts and others who felt this was a dog from the start. Understandably. But ultimately, I think it raised awareness about a lot of issues some folks aren’t aware of: the work of cryptozoologists; the matter of feral dogs, and of course, the role of the state game wardens in the investigation of these types of finds. I won’t lie to you: it was one fun story to cover. And of course, many thanks to Loren for his expertise and enthusiasm.

The beast is dead. Long live the beast.

By: Ratopia

Ratopia — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 06:24:43 +0000

What a fascinating story! I just happened to see a bit about this on a news site last night and before this, I had not read about it.

I was a veterinary assistant for 10 years, a dog groomer for nearly 15 and a dog owner most of my life. And, yes, I had a lot of Chows in my lifetime. They seemed to be the entire family’s choice in dog. LOL!

Yea, that animal was definitely part Chow. It was either mixed with something else, too, or else it was a very badly bred animal.

I feel pretty bad for the dog, as it didn’t appear to be very attractive and that’s possibly why the original owner let it go feral, if it was, in fact a feral dog, anyway. After having been hit by a car and dead for who knows how many hours, it would have looked pretty bad, anyway.

I don’t know where people came up with the idea it was a wolf mix or coyote mix as neither of those canines look anything like this dog did, at all.

By: UKCryptid

UKCryptid — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 20:59:12 +0000

Oh, and of course everyone else at CM Happy new year.

By: UKCryptid

UKCryptid — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 20:56:49 +0000

Whilst I was getting quite frustrated as more and more parts of (to me) an exaggerated story came to us, this is a nice compilation of the info to look through, nicely done Loren.

By: bill green

bill green — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 14:52:07 +0000

hey loren & everyone good morning wow definetly a great new very interesting article about the maine mutant. great above photos as well. thanks bill . im sure we will see more updates about maine mutant soon.