Mystery Creature

Mystery Creature Lurks In Baltimore County

http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/3...68&dppid=68757


POSTED: 5:19 am EDT July 19, 2004
UPDATED: 6:54 pm EDT July 27, 2004

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.

They already have a video of me, don't worry people, i did advertise AO on it :)

where's Steve Irwin when you need him??

is def weird thing to be running about in Baltimore - maybe escaped from a privat zoo or something?? surrprised the newspapers aint got some kind of zoologist to pin down what it is - unless it is a new species which if it is that is a seriously big deal......most likly just a mongrel of something tho

v_Ln

Last thing I heard about it on the news was that it is believed to be a fox with some kind of endocrine disease, and that they'll only try to catch it once it becomes dangerous for humans...

thats one messed up looking fox - yuck!!!
didn't watch the vid (saw real player download link ¬_¬) but it looks like it must be seriously bloated up then

v_Ln

I'm still thinking it's some mix of hyena or dingo and something else. Nasty looking bugger though.

I'd say catch it but with the luck animal control has had in the recent past, nope, just leave the thing alone.

my vote goes....."SHAVED HYENA!" w00t...thast what it looks like. Perhaps someone got one illegaly, had the sick Idea of shaving it and they Heyena got pissed, ran off, now its hungry and is going through this poor man's garbage. I say shoot it...they're annoying animals...they are ugly, and they make the worse noise ever. Yeah...and they stink too.

nah
it was nemory running naked there. He use to do that things.

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Originally posted here by Negative
Last thing I heard about it on the news was that it is believed to be a fox with some kind of endocrine disease, and that they'll only try to catch it once it becomes dangerous for humans...

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That's what I look like when I don't get my insulin...

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where's Steve Irwin when you need him??

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Now, What I am gonna do is grab the blighter and shove my thumb up his bum ole.

pause as steve sneaks up.

Whoa, That seems to have really pissed him off. Whoa, he is definitely a wild one.

:) Sure looks like a mangy assed fox to me. magine that rubbin up ya leg. :chuck:

Geez, the poor thing looks really sick :( That much hair loss can't be indicative of good health. And the fact that it's eating cat food would indicate to me that whatever it normally eats, it can't hunt it anymore.

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Originally posted here by debwalin
Geez, the poor thing looks really sick :( That much hair loss can't be indicative of good health. And the fact that it's eating cat food would indicate to me that whatever it normally eats, it can't hunt it anymore.

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Uh oh. Sounds like Deb wants to take another animal home. ;)

I love how theatrical the news report was though. They had their cameramen creeping arond bushes to make it look like a cheap horror movie rather than a news report. They must be BORED. :)

Oh shut up :p ;)

I just feel sorry for it, it's obviously sick, and I'm not sure 'waiting til it's dangerous' is all that great for the animals quality of life.

*bwaaaaaaaa bwaaaaaaaa bwaaaaaaaa* mom alert ;)

although i do have to agree with deb, it can't be good for the thing to be living like that...

Well, I sent my wife out for a bottle of wine three weeks ago and haven't seen her since?

Seriously, it looks like a hyena to me..........rear quarters are higher that front quarters..........large head.......large rear jaws for cracking bones that the big cats can't handle.

They are natural foragers and scavengers, so eating "opportunity food" seems to fit in. If you are going to feed it cat food, mix it 50/50 with the small dog biscuits..............cat food is too rich........messy!

I don't think that they have that much hair anyways, so from the quality of the picture it is hard to tell the health of the animal.

just my thoughts :)

That I'm aware of, we don't have hyena's in the US. However, I could be wrong, and will willingly take that back if someone knows for a fact that we do.

Fire up the barbi !

Yea I kinda think it looks like a Fox on meth....LOL. Im pretty anxious to find out what it accutally is though.

I still say we eat it. Endangered or rare things are always tasty !

Debs,

In a rare serious moment (for me!), I think that it is a hyena................it is probably an escapee from a private zoo?

You are absolutely correct..................it is NOT indigenous to the USA or South America..........and certainly not the cooler climate of Canada. It is an African savanna animal.

It is a pack animal, and a scavenger, if released or escaped, it has no idea how to feed itself (unfortunately, they cannot read, so don't understand theMacDonalds signs)

I would suspect that it might be suffering from malnutrition............that would posibly induce "mange" which would explain the possible poor condition it seems to be in?

It is NOT a dingo..........wrong head shape and body profile IMHO.

It probably wants company (pack animal) and human support ( to eat)............if my private zoo theory bears any credence, it is probably accustomed to the company of other exotic animals.

I feel sorry for it.........humans mess around too much!

just my thoughts

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I feel sorry for it.........humans mess around too much!

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Yeah i'd feel sorry for it as well who know's what Mark did to it the other night, poor thing it must be terrified after seeing Mark in the nakie ;)

Anyhow what ever it is i think that it should be caught and taken to the RSPCA or something as it obviously needs to be checked out, and if nothings wrong with it then it must be some fruited up breed between 2 different species...
And then once i'ts been examined i think it should be put some place were it would recieve the care that it needs..

Damn i'm starting to feel a little emotional, what the heck is wrong with me, quick someone slap me back into reality......

The more I look at it the more I think hyena. Private zoo possibly, but no one will know for sure cause who'll fess up to smuggling animals into the U.S.??? Dumb, dumb, chicken little.

And as far as cooking it up, IMO there's WAY too much dark meat on that sucker, probably a bit too gamey to boot. Maybe if they fatten it up with some choice kibble it'd round out a bit. But mind you people would'nt want to put in the time to bar-b-que or crockpot it properly, it doesn't seem like a microwaveable type thing to me. But then a gain that's just me.

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Mysterious Animal Captured In Maryland

By First Coast News Staff

GLYNDON, MD -- All it took was a cage and a sirloin steak. That's how neighbors in Glyndon, Maryland, captured a strange looking animal.

Neighbors were calling it a monster, but it turns out it was just a fox, with some serious health problems.

The Red Fox has a severe case of scabies, which caused all its fur to fall out.

That, along with the small face and long tail, had neighbors struggling to identify the animal.

Animal experts are now working to rehabilitate the red fox.

Wildlife experts say where there's one sick fox there may be more, so neighbors have been warned to be on the look out.

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Now we know! Glad the poor thing is getting some treatment now, and also glad they didn't wait til it got dangerous, because we all know how that would have ended. :rolleyes:

Deb, You neglected to mention that it is actually basil brush

Boom Boom.

:)

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Neighbors were calling it a monster, but it turns out it was just a fox, with some serious health problems.

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I'd say.....

Scabies is a nasty ailment, transmittable to humans................but:

1. It does NOT make your front legs shorter than the rear ones
2. It does NOT increase the size of your rear jaw

I am not convinced as yet...............



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The animal they caught is NOT the animal from the guy's backyard video, close but it's not. Te animal they caught looks like a sick fox, the animal in the video looks quite different, to me at least. :confused:

Dam that is ugly... lol what is it supposed to be anyone figured it out yet?
It look like a broken doggy, fox, want to be one but it is not thing...lol

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Originally posted here by NemorY
They already have a video of me, don't worry people, i did advertise AO on it :)

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I knew it!!! Someone finally managed to photograph an AO troll!