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74Wind 
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 Topic: What is this animal?????Posted: July-22-2015 at 10:20pm |
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Found this head in the backyard. No body to be found. Zoom in, holy crap look at those teeth! See head size in comparison to the shovel it's sitting on. Pretty spooky, can anyone identify it?
South Atlanta suburbia but pretty wooded. Yard and part of woods fenced Dog was out but shows no signs of a fight. Coyotes spotted around every now and then but, again, dog would probably show some injury. Cats kill varmints occasionally but guess they woulda lost to this. See a lot of hawks so maybe it was airmail, but would have to be a big hawk if carrying it whole.......ideas? |
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74Wind
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Posted: July-22-2015 at 10:21pm |
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oops forgot the photo....
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Posted: July-22-2015 at 10:22pm |
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Dead animal!? You have my attention! I see no pics.
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Posted: July-22-2015 at 10:22pm |
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No picture
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Posted: July-22-2015 at 10:25pm |
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looks like it may be the chupacabra
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Posted: July-22-2015 at 10:26pm |
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Oh I see it. wow took me a few minutes to focus in on what I was looking at.? Is the nose cartilage already gone? Shouldn't be but I just can't tell with that pic.
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Posted: July-22-2015 at 10:27pm |
No no, they don't have hair. |
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Posted: July-22-2015 at 10:31pm |
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so what is it then?
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Posted: July-22-2015 at 10:33pm |
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Looks like a cat.
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Posted: July-22-2015 at 10:38pm |
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id say not but its all i could think of too definitely has canines
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Posted: July-22-2015 at 10:38pm |
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Count the teeth, adult dogs should have 42 teeth vs 30 i think. Isn't there an in-house vet here? I'm just an aspiring taxidermist.
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Posted: July-22-2015 at 10:39pm |
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No it looked pretty intact before i chucked it over the fence to keep it away from the dog. Seemed fairly light, with no blood or guts and nothing around it. My wife went over to see what the dog was messing with.......
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Posted: July-22-2015 at 10:40pm |
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its got to be a dog not coyote, not feline.
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Posted: July-22-2015 at 10:42pm |
\ Nope snout is way too long..almost more like a dog but the teeth seem way oversized in relation to the face.. And if anyone wants to count the teeth, just send me your address..... |
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Posted: July-22-2015 at 10:50pm |
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just put some latex gloves on, vapor rub under your nose to block the smell and go to town. Unfortunately cats and dogs both have 6 incisors which is what I appear to see. I'll be in Atlanta shortly, store it in the freezer and Ill give you $15 for it.
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Posted: July-22-2015 at 10:58pm |
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My wife said fine, but you'll have to buy the freezer too......
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Posted: July-22-2015 at 11:06pm |
They have got to be long lost sisters. That is flipping funny. I agree, rare pygmy hairy chupacabra. My cat brings me presents quite often. (thanks pudd'n) sometimes they are also hard to ID. |
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Jesus was a bare-footer.............
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Posted: July-23-2015 at 12:28pm |
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So whilst wondering if it is not a native species, now I' ve got this recurring theme completely stuck in my head..."a dingo ate my baby...."
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Posted: July-23-2015 at 1:01pm |
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First reaction thought was some sort of mutated wild boar/feral pig but everything is way off, especially the REALLY long canines. I am not thinking dog tho...
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Posted: July-23-2015 at 1:38pm |
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You know I kinda thought that too but the teeth look canine. Feral hogs/boar certainly reside in georgia. The largest ever shot was only about 10 miles away. 1200 lbs.
Kinda wished I hadn't chucked it over the fence but as it's gonna be high 90's today, don't think I wanna see it again......if a coyote or something doesn't get it maybe next year I can sell the skull to Ripley's..... It is a little disconcerting to find this thing in my fenced backyard....don't think our dog or cats got into it, other than a little nosing around. Woke up this morning wondering if the Australian Shepherd had turned into Cujo overnight. ..oddly enough the head has almost the same mottled tan/brown/black coloring as his does. Who's the vet? Isn't air206 or maybe another NC guy? |
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Posted: July-23-2015 at 1:58pm |
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Always heard Georgia was filled with Naughty Kitty's
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Posted: July-23-2015 at 4:28pm |
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The guys here at my lab who deal with animal remains regularly, all thought it was a cat skull.
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Posted: July-23-2015 at 5:13pm |
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I sent photo to my vet, also said it was a cat. Have my doubts but who am I to say...
If so, it must be the demon cat from hell and hope it doesn't have any big brothers lurking nearby.. 
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Posted: July-23-2015 at 5:40pm |
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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. 
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Posted: July-23-2015 at 5:59pm |
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One can never have too many skulls on display.
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Posted: July-23-2015 at 6:04pm |
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Yes Air206 is our resident vet, I sent him a PM...
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Posted: July-23-2015 at 8:11pm |
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If you liked in northern Wisconsin around Rhinelander like I do, Then I'd say it was one of these.
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Posted: July-23-2015 at 9:21pm |
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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. .. |
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Posted: July-23-2015 at 9:59pm |
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Maybe someone stole a wolverine from the northwest and realized what they got them self into.
I am bored and can't write another line of C# today. About the only images I can find with a similar snout width, eye location and ear placement. 
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Posted: July-23-2015 at 10:32pm |
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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! |
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