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Mystery Creature in Maryland and it's not BV
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http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/3...dpswid=1946268 &dppid=68757 Mystery Creature Lurks In Baltimore County GLYNDON, Md. -- A mystery animal is on the loose in Baltimore County and not even the experts can pin down what it is. A Glyndon man found a way to secretly record the beast while it grazed in his yard. For a while it was just lurking in the woods watching the Wroe family until the Wroes started watching it. Jay Wroe: "My truck was parked here, started getting in my truck. I kind of saw it there where the sunlight is and said what in the world is that?" Jacob Wroe: "It looked so weird to me. I didn't know what it was." Wanting to get a better look at the beast stalking his family, Jay Wroe put technology to work for him. Jay Wroe: "The next day, I hooked up just portable motion detectors, and put them down back in the woods there." The trap worked. Jay Wroe: "Very bizarre. I went and got my father and cousin and they came and looked at it and their reactions were pretty much the same -- what in the world are we looking at?" 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. kathy :-) algae primer http://hometown.aol.com/ka30p/myhomepage/garden.html |
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Mystery Creature in Maryland and it's not BV
What an oddity!
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Mystery Creature in Maryland and it's not BV
It looks like one of those Australian animals... Think it could be a
mutant? Nedra ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Granny Grump" wrote in message ... What an oddity! |
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Mystery Creature in Maryland and it's not BV
It looks like one of those Australian animals... Think it could be a
mutant? Nedra ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Granny Grump" wrote in message ... What an oddity! |
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"Ka30P" wrote in message ... Cut and paste to see picture http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/3...dpswid=1946268 &dppid=68757 =============================== It looks like a dog with a severe case of mange. I remember seeing a large dog years ago in NYC with most of it's coat gone. All it had left was hair on it's head and a strip along it's back and tail. -- Carol.... "I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes." ~~~~~~{@ "They laugh because I'm different, I laugh because they're all the same." http://www.heartoftn.net/users/windsong/index.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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Mystery Creature in Maryland and it's not BV
"~ Windsong ~" wrote in message ... snip It looks like a dog with a severe case of mange. I remember seeing a large dog years ago in NYC with most of it's coat gone. All it had left was hair on it's head and a strip along it's back and tail. snip That was my take on it, although the shorter front legs and the shape of the head make it look very much like a Hyena. I would not put it past some idiot to grab a pup while on vacation in Africa and bring it home. BV. |
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Mystery Creature in Maryland and it's not BV
"Benign Vanilla" wrote in message ... "~ Windsong ~" wrote in message ... snip It looks like a dog with a severe case of mange. I remember seeing a large dog years ago in NYC with most of it's coat gone. All it had left was hair on it's head and a strip along it's back and tail. snip That was my take on it, although the shorter front legs and the shape of the head make it look very much like a Hyena. I would not put it past some idiot to grab a pup while on vacation in Africa and bring it home. BV. ====================== Yes, that is possible, but I don't think it's a Hyena. -- Carol.... ~~~~~~{@ "They laugh because I'm different, I laugh because they're all the same." http://www.heartoftn.net/users/windsong/index.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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Mystery Creature in Maryland and it's not BV
"~ Windsong ~" wrote in message ... "Benign Vanilla" wrote in message ... "~ Windsong ~" wrote in message ... snip It looks like a dog with a severe case of mange. I remember seeing a large dog years ago in NYC with most of it's coat gone. All it had left was hair on it's head and a strip along it's back and tail. snip That was my take on it, although the shorter front legs and the shape of the head make it look very much like a Hyena. I would not put it past some idiot to grab a pup while on vacation in Africa and bring it home. BV. ====================== Yes, that is possible, but I don't think it's a Hyena. -- Carol.... ~~~~~~{@ "They laugh because I'm different, I laugh because they're all the same." http://www.heartoftn.net/users/windsong/index.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is what a Hyena looks like: http://www.wildlife-pictures-online..../hyenakp05.jpg What is on that video is definitely not a hyena. |
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Mystery Creature in Maryland and it's not BV
"~ Windsong ~" wrote in message ... "Benign Vanilla" wrote in message ... "~ Windsong ~" wrote in message ... snip It looks like a dog with a severe case of mange. I remember seeing a large dog years ago in NYC with most of it's coat gone. All it had left was hair on it's head and a strip along it's back and tail. snip That was my take on it, although the shorter front legs and the shape of the head make it look very much like a Hyena. I would not put it past some idiot to grab a pup while on vacation in Africa and bring it home. BV. ====================== Yes, that is possible, but I don't think it's a Hyena. -- Carol.... ~~~~~~{@ "They laugh because I'm different, I laugh because they're all the same." http://www.heartoftn.net/users/windsong/index.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is what a Hyena looks like: http://www.wildlife-pictures-online..../hyenakp05.jpg What is on that video is definitely not a hyena. |
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Mystery Creature in Maryland and it's not BV
"Benign Vanilla" wrote in message ... "~ Windsong ~" wrote in message ... snip It looks like a dog with a severe case of mange. I remember seeing a large dog years ago in NYC with most of it's coat gone. All it had left was hair on it's head and a strip along it's back and tail. snip That was my take on it, although the shorter front legs and the shape of the head make it look very much like a Hyena. I would not put it past some idiot to grab a pup while on vacation in Africa and bring it home. BV. ====================== Yes, that is possible, but I don't think it's a Hyena. -- Carol.... ~~~~~~{@ "They laugh because I'm different, I laugh because they're all the same." http://www.heartoftn.net/users/windsong/index.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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Mystery Creature in Maryland and it's not BV
"~ Windsong ~" wrote in message ... snip It looks like a dog with a severe case of mange. I remember seeing a large dog years ago in NYC with most of it's coat gone. All it had left was hair on it's head and a strip along it's back and tail. snip That was my take on it, although the shorter front legs and the shape of the head make it look very much like a Hyena. I would not put it past some idiot to grab a pup while on vacation in Africa and bring it home. BV. |
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"Nedra" wrote in message . net... It looks like one of those Australian animals... Think it could be a mutant? ==================== A dingo? Yes. But this animal looks furless or hairless in those areas that are very smooth. -- Carol.... "I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes." ~~~~~~{@ "They laugh because I'm different, I laugh because they're all the same." http://www.heartoftn.net/users/windsong/index.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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Mystery Creature in Maryland and it's not BV
"Ka30P" wrote in message ... Cut and paste to see picture http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/3...dpswid=1946268 &dppid=68757 Mystery Creature Lurks In Baltimore County Very strange, indeed. It does kind of look like a hyena, but I agree with others here that it could be a feral dog, possibly with the mange. |
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Mystery Creature in Maryland and it's not BV
Ka30P wrote:
Cut and paste to see picture http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/3...dpswid=1946268 &dppid=68757 Very poor pictures from the article, but I wouldn't discount the possibility of it being an exotic. With the state of exotic animal smuggling these days, it's entirely possible that it's an escapee from some illegal situation. Thus the "owners" would not report it missing (as a zoo would if an animal went missing from an exhibit). I remember seeing a story in Florida about some large "mystery monster" that turned out to be a large reptile (and by large I mean several feet in length) and several of its smaller friends that escaped from an exotic reptile importer down the road. That importer was legal, but known to authorities for having escaped reptiles due to shoddy cages. I'm sure if they actually got an expert out there, they could figure out what the animal is quite rapidly. Those pictures are really too poor to do anything but speculate. Even the mange theory is just that, because you can't really see the skin well enough to see if it has a skin disorder, just that a mane is sometimes seen in advanced mange cases. An in person sighting by an expert would likely clear the matter up quickly. I'm willing to bet the news station nor the neighborhood authorities have bothered yet because they don't feel threatened by the animal. Proclaiming "oddity spotted" gets a lot more attention than "authorities find animal with severe mange" or "authorities find exotic animal running loose" from the news perspective anyways. |
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