Know what this critter is?
Neither, it seems, does anyone else at present.
Yes, one of “nature’s special creatures” is now stalking the byways–and eating from the garbage cans–of Maryland.
Fortunately, the critter seems to be non-threatening (thus far) and is reported to get along well with cats.
Excerpts from the story:
More than a month after the first sighting, the creature has become a neighborhood regular and showing up often.
Kim Carlsen: “It comes to our house. It’s been up in the woods for a while and it comes up through the bottom of our yard and eats our cat food.”
Despite the fact it’s lurking in these woods and no one knows when or where it will come out, no one here seems afraid of it.
Jacob Wroe: “I don’t know, it doesn’t look like it’s going to harm anybody.”
Even the other neighborhood animals like Bullwinkle the dog next door seem okay with the beast.
Kim Carlsen: “It’s not afraid of the cats and the cats seem to get along with it fine.”
The beast is not shy, and visits most often under bright sun. While no one here knows what it is, they do have a name for it — the hyote, a combination of a hyena and a coyote.
In a boon to cryptozoologists, the hyote has been caught on film repeatedly, and in the story above there is a link to a good number of pictures.
Hopefully animal experts will be able to use these to determine what the creature is. If not, it might be captured and viciously identified.
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We discussed it at Catholic-convert.com. Then updated news told that it’s a sick dog.
All these cryptids were banished from Monsters, Inc. Remember “Abominable” Snowman and his “don’t worry, it’s lemon” snow cones?
Maybe the hyote didn’t make his scream quota. 😉
It looks kinda like a tapir. Are any local zoos missing an inhabitant?
“Viciously identified”? Wouldn’t that be a little hard on the poor thing?
From a first glance I thought it was a razorback hog. After reading that it was identified as a dog, I’d have to say that the dog has a really nice mullet.
Growing up in MD, we had a mythical (I suppose) thing called ‘the goat man’. Half man, half goat, supposedly he was developed in the government agricultural farms in Beltsville. He roamed the woods around the farms. When I saw the head line here, before the picture loaded, I figured someone finally caught the old guy. Maybe this is his dog.
Cool! We had ‘frogman’ in our small town in WA when I was growing up. I had to walk past his house on the way to elementary school. SCARY. Is he related to goat man?
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