# Maine residents find dead mystery beast? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 16, 2006, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-residents-find-dead-mystery-beast/369015 "2006-08-16T22:00:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enter_the_Flagon)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2006, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-residents-find-dead-mystery-beast/369015/21 "2006-08-20T18:02:32Z")
[QUOTE=NoClueBoy] What the hell kind of ugly dog would a wolf/dog hybrid have to be from to look that ugly dead thing? [/QUOTE] How 'bout a [pug](http://www.puppydogweb.com/gallery/pugs/pug_sarza.jpg) ? Short snout, bug eyes, a face only a mother could love; I could see it. ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2006, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-residents-find-dead-mystery-beast/369015/22 "2006-08-20T18:17:14Z")
[QUOTE=NoClueBoy] I worked on a guy’s house last year who had a wolf as a pet. Right in the middle of the city. A wolf. Gorgeous animal. Large and muscular but still sleek and beautiful. What the hell kind of ugly dog would a wolf/dog hybrid have to be from to look that ugly dead thing? [/QUOTE] I had a dog that was a huskie. I wouldn’t be surprised if she was part wolf, she was one big mofo and had both an eye of blue and one of brown. I miss her ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-residents-find-dead-mystery-beast/369015/23 "2006-08-20T19:13:36Z")
It looks a lot like a Schipperke dog right down to the comepletely black lips and eyes. The animal looks like a one of the parents were one. [Pictures](http://www.puppypoopy.com/sp1.html) ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2006, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-residents-find-dead-mystery-beast/369015/24 "2006-08-20T19:19:10Z")
When my sister lived in Alaska, one of her neighbors decided to see what would happen if he bred “Pit Wolves.” Answer: the smarter ones figure out a way to escape. It was shortly after this that my sister’s husband insisted that she learn to use the pistol. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2006, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-residents-find-dead-mystery-beast/369015/25 "2006-08-20T23:57:11Z")
[QUOTE=saoirse] When my sister lived in Alaska, one of her neighbors decided to see what would happen if he bred “Pit Wolves.” Answer: the smarter ones figure out a way to escape. It was shortly after this that my sister’s husband insisted that she learn to use the pistol. [/QUOTE] I’d learn to use a pistol, too, if I lived next door to a guy like that. Who knows what brilliant ideas he might come up with tomorrow? Anyone who breeds pit bulls with wolves just to “see what would happen” is probably just as likely to decide that kidnapping people and selling their kidneys over the internet would make a spiffy get-rich-quick scheme. “Pit wolves?” Seriously, that’s beautiful in its inspired stupidity. Yes, by all means let us breed timber wolves with pit bulls! What could possibly go wrong? Surely nothing but good could come of such an endeavor! What utterly perfect B-movie material. Lance Henriksen could star as the rural Alaskan sheriff confronted with a bizarre series of savage animal attacks around Denali National Park. “Dammit, Clay, I don’t care if no other tracks were found; there’s no way a wolf could have been the killer! Look at the way the femur’s been sheared away-- only a grizzly exerts that kind of bite pressure!” ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-residents-find-dead-mystery-beast/369015/26 "2006-08-21T01:30:35Z")
[QUOTE=NoClueBoy] What the hell kind of ugly dog would a wolf/dog hybrid have to be from to look that ugly dead thing? [/QUOTE] Maybe it mated with a [freaky-ass mutant Maine lobster](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=384520) ! ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-residents-find-dead-mystery-beast/369015/27 "2006-08-21T02:35:06Z")
[QUOTE=Terrifel] I’d learn to use a pistol, too, if I lived next door to a guy like that. Who knows what brilliant ideas he might come up with tomorrow? Anyone who breeds pit bulls with wolves just to “see what would happen” is probably just as likely to decide that kidnapping people and selling their kidneys over the internet would make a spiffy get-rich-quick scheme. “Pit wolves?” Seriously, that’s beautiful in its inspired stupidity. Yes, by all means let us breed timber wolves with pit bulls! What could possibly go wrong? Surely nothing but good could come of such an endeavor! What utterly perfect B-movie material. Lance Henriksen could star as the rural Alaskan sheriff confronted with a bizarre series of savage animal attacks around Denali National Park. “Dammit, Clay, I don’t care if no other tracks were found; there’s no way a wolf could have been the killer! Look at the way the femur’s been sheared away-- only a grizzly exerts that kind of bite pressure!” [/QUOTE] My first reaction on hearing it was, “Thank God there’s an Alaksa.” I don’t think the guy was born there, you know. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-residents-find-dead-mystery-beast/369015/28 "2006-08-21T02:40:32Z")
I’d like to breed pit bulls with monkeys. That would be cool. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-residents-find-dead-mystery-beast/369015/29 "2006-08-21T02:43:55Z")
[QUOTE=Revtim] I’d like to breed pit bulls with monkeys. That would be cool. [/QUOTE] Done it. Ended up with a footlocker full of dead hookers. That was one weird church service. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-residents-find-dead-mystery-beast/369015/30 "2006-08-22T02:08:43Z")
If I had seen the picture first before reading the story I’d have said, that looks like a dead Chow Chow. With the story, I still think it looks like a Chow. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-residents-find-dead-mystery-beast/369015/31 "2006-08-26T16:03:12Z")
[DNA test proves it’s a canine.](http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/memutantverdict/) Now is there still a mystery beast in Maine? In all fairness this just proves this animal wasn’t a mystery beast. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-residents-find-dead-mystery-beast/369015/32 "2006-08-26T16:07:40Z")
[Original author’s update.](http://www.sunjournal.com/news/city/20060826086.php) The article says some people thought it was a German Sheperd. Did these people ever see a German Shepherd in their life? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-residents-find-dead-mystery-beast/369015.md?page=1)