What is this animal?????

skutsch wrote: HA! Ok, so cat family makes most since to me, since Jeff (OP) said it was also stinky it probably was fairly old and is a good reason why so much fur is missing. I bet they have Bobcats in GA! Headed to Germanfest tonight in Milwaukee, so I will have to keep a close look out for the Lion Roaming the streets in Milwaukee

Latest theory from Milwaukee radio.....Someone put a lions mask on a Bull Mastiff, and let ole Fido roam the neighborhood. Pretty creative!

My guess:   the cat was killed by a chupacabra who dropped it in the dumpster behind the chinese buffet, then found by a raccoon who then dragged it to Jeff's back yard.

OverMyHead wrote: Jeff, I think you are overlooking the big concern. There was some other creature in your back yard that was able to tear the head off the fanged mutant you found. YIKES!!!!

Yes that occurred to me..
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A while back my drinking buddy across the street had a coyote in his backyard. He ran after it with a machete and it leaped/cleared his tall fence in a single jump. Not something I would have done but he's an ex-French Foreign Legion sniper so pretty crazy. (also a former multi-national European special forces Muy Thai kickboxing Champion, good friend to have ha ha)

So I'd guess it was a coyote, or airmail from a passing bird of prey.

Bri892001 wrote: 8122pbrainard wrote: If you liked in northern Wisconsin around Rhinelander like I do, Then I'd say it was one of these. Wait!! You guys have Hollywoods running around in Wisconsin too?!

Brian,
No, that's just a HW look alike. HW won't travel that far north in Wisconsin because they don't import Coors lite that far and he doesn't like Leinenkugel

8122pbrainard wrote: If you liked in northern Wisconsin around Rhinelander like I do, Then I'd say it was one of these.

Wait!! You guys have Hollywoods running around in Wisconsin too?!

Definitive is not possible with a picture like that.......... Looks like a Maine Coon cat skull to me. Teeth are wrong for rodent or porcine. Ears carriage and placement are incorrect for canidae. Likely a big, long-nosed cat .... (could also be small bobcat since you guys like the exotic.... don't know what Bobcat-like cats you have around there.....)

You guys ...... silly goofs!

If you put a GI Joe in that thing wonder if it would qualify as an observer.

I took a computer punch card class in college and a DOS class in the 80's.
A bit rusty but a quick learner, you hiring?

BTW: Never mind my previous "financial windfall" post. After a quick discussion here i was told, in no uncertain terms, "hope you can tie up your new boat....by yourself. ....
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Gotta ask, what is "writing C#"?

I'm like obsessed with this thing. Have looked up all sorts of stuff including wolverines. One thing I did see was a fisher...not from here but yikes that looks like a bad mofo. There seems to be a hog-like ridge from brow to nose on this thing...so .weird.

So.....Lake Champlain has Champie it's Loch Ness Monster equivalent (beautiful lake if you've never been)...Wisconsin has Pete's Dragon (perhaps imagined from an overindulgence in shrooms and cheese)...maybe I can glom onto this thing if I could only find a good name...then make enough money off it to buy an ostentatious spork-bow boat and be forever banished from this site....wish me luck and been nice knowing you all!

Interesting creature Pete. Tell me, Rhinelanders also fond of mushrooms?

So still a bit perplexed, took a good look at my cats when I got home, and while it may have been a cat, with the head size and the giant choppers there's no way it was an ordinary house cat. Seen a lot of things around here, coyotes, armadillos, cotton mouths, copperheads, even had a bear cross our yard once, not beyond the realm of possibility it was some little feral cat or lynx or something. Of course if air206 pipes in he will probably debunk this whole theory. ..

Yes Air206 is our resident vet, I sent him a PM...

Orlando76: now that we know it's just a cat you still offering $15 for it? Just send me your address. Although....it's real hot out...and it's been out in the rain all day....

Wouldn't wanna be your mailman.

The guys here at my lab who deal with animal remains regularly, all thought it was a cat skull.