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Topic: can we solve this mystery animal thing?
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Jay Nistetter
Legalize Weed, Free the Dixie Chicks
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posted July 20, 2004 12:55 PM
All I get is an AOL sign-in sheet wanting my email and give a password.
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Understanding the coyote is not as important as knowing where they are.
I usually let the fur prime up before I leave 'em lay.
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Leonard
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posted July 20, 2004 06:06 PM
I don't know how to fix it, Jay. It's on CNN newspass, played on Real one broadband.
What is shows is an animal that has some long hair along it's shoulders and head, but appears to have no hair, or very short hair on the rest of it's body. Could be a dog with mange, maybe a coyote(?) but it has the stature of a hyena, rear legs either bent or maybe shorter than the front feet. Gait like a German Shepard. The color appears to be brown? It's unusual, not easy to figure.
There must be some way to access it from your provider, but I don't have a clue.
Anybody else, see it? LB
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Norm
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posted July 20, 2004 09:43 PM
can't get past that AOL screen entry.... don't have enough money to pay for AOL...
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Rich
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posted July 21, 2004 06:40 AM
The gait of this animal,the shape of it's head and long hair on top of neck. Hmmmm Looks like a hyena to me.
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If you call the coyotes in close, you won't NEED a high dollar range finder.
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Greenside
seems to know what he is talking about
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posted July 23, 2004 11:07 AM
Here's it is for you non-aol users. What about a mixed bred with a mange poblem or maybe just a bad hair cut.
http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/3545312/detail.html
Dennis
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Leonard
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posted July 23, 2004 12:31 PM
Thanks for the help, Dennis. Your guess is as good as mine, it could easily be an ugly stray dog. With mange? LB
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Cdog911
"There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell.
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posted July 23, 2004 02:49 PM
I think we can all agree of the mange issue since it presents with pretty much the same infestation pattern as my local coyotes. As far as just what it is, the ears are located and positioned in such a way as to say hyena. But, a hyena typically has much larger shoulders with a relatively lower pelvic girdle giving them something of a humpbacked look.
Because the critter is bare, it's easy to see the distention in the belly which probably means he's chockful of worms and such a feature wouldn't be a good reason for ruling our dog versus coyote versus any other canid. Along that same line, I've seen coyotes, and dogs, that had mange infestations so severe as to cause a lot of soft tissue swelling and what appears to be an entirely different facial structure because of it.
My vote is for some mixed breed dog in very poor health, mangey, and badly in need of being dewormed. Those folks need a good trapper to catch it and isolate it away from their "wanted" pets.
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Locohead
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posted August 03, 2004 12:43 PM
Someone explain to me how this, "Ancient Chinese Secret", rabbit in distress call, using a sponge and glass, works anyway?!?!
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Rich
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posted August 04, 2004 05:28 AM
I was watching the news last night, and I see that the mystery animal has been caught. Turned out to be a red fox. They said it had scabies, but I am thinking mange.
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If you call the coyotes in close, you won't NEED a high dollar range finder.
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Crow Woman
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posted August 16, 2004 03:22 AM
Hey Rich... fyi... I just got home from Maryland and was talking to a game officer there. You are right, it had scabies AND mange.
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Sheri L Baity
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Krustyklimber
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posted August 16, 2004 10:23 AM
A google search turned up this;
Mange is a skin
disease of mammals caused by a tissue-burrowing arthropod, the mange mite. A variety of mange mites exist; the ones most often identified as the cause of mange in Michigan wildlife are Sarcoptes scabiei and Notoedres centrifera. The mites are too small to be seen with the naked eye, but skin changes brought on by infestation can be dramatic. The skin diseases caused by these species of mites are sarcoptic and notoedric mange.
...Some parasitologists believe the mite is specific for the host on which it is found. Other parasitologists challenge this belief because there are records of transfer from fox to wolf and dog, rabbit to monkey, goat to man, dog to man, etc.
From http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10370_12150_12220-26949--,00.html
Scabies is caused by a small insect or mite known as S. scabiei var. hominis. This mite is about the size of a pinhead and can live only 24 hours at room temperature apart from the human body. It burrows into the outer layer of skin and lays eggs, which hatch in 3-5 days. After hatching, the newly formed mites leave the burrow and move to other skin surfaces and repeat the cycle.
From http://www.mckinley.uiuc.edu/health-info/dis-cond/commdis/scabies.html
Krusty 
[ August 16, 2004, 10:25 AM: Message edited by: Krustyklimber ]
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