I once owned a male dog that squatted to pee. So that ain’t proof.

Everybody wins!

I remember the Louisiana Roadkill photos that went around the ‘net not too long ago and thought the same thing. All you have is photos of the corpse(?) lying roadside and a bunch of people (apparently) poking it with a stick and asking aloud ‘what the hell is ‘at?’. By the time the ‘hard core’ investigators get there there isn’t much left but some hair and bones…

I can imagine a local news piece done on this and the anchor saying something dismissive like ‘Looks like somebody let Fluffy out to pee and he never made it back…(fake chuckle, giggle, giggle)’.

By the time Mark and I received permission to enter the property and be taken to the body (a mere 40 hours after the body’s discovery), the carcass had been mostly stripped by turkey vultures and other “varmints” (to use a local term) eating the dead animal.

The property owner also had taken the skull and would not share it. (There were rumors of posting it on eBay.) Only the paws were still whole and covered with fur. Nevertheless, the individuals who had found and photographed it said it was a male. Mark’s newspaper sent out two DNA samples to two labs, to determine what kind of animal it was.

As Mark emails here, the finding on gender merely confirmed what we were already told my the people that saw the animal when it was intact.

Let me be clear, I do not think this transported Florida dog was the same as the one found in Maine.

I thought maybe Miss Madden may have been mistaken about the gender of her dog. Scientific proof came forth, however, when she reported Woolfie squatted when she peed.