Finally, we caught it and it turned out to be a hybrid.'

'One was out somewhere in eastern central Montana killing sheep like crazy. 'We've had a few instances of wolf/dog hybrids out there,' Ty Smucker, wolf management specialist for Montana FWP, told the Tribune. It's a wolf-dog hybrid: Wolves and dogs are interfertile, according to the International Wolf Center, meaning they can interbreed and produce offspring that can then produce more offspring. A breeder in southern Oregon has spent the last three decades trying to create a new sort of dog called the American Alsatian that would look very much like the extinct species and the animals given to the children of House Stark. 'In reality a dire wolf is a prehistoric mammal from the age of mammoths and saber tooth tigers.'īut it could be a dire wolf 2.0. 'First off, 'Dire Wolf' was a wonderful song by The Grateful Dead in about 1971. Thousands of dire wolf skeletons have been found in the La Brea Tar Pits, according to the BBC.Īuchly, with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, doesn't put much stock in that theory. But they went extinct more than 10,000 years ago, The Washington Post's Karin Brulliard reported. It's a dire wolf: The creature got too close to livestock, not Prince Joffrey of the 'Game of Thrones' fame, and although Winterfell is actually a real place you can visit, it's nowhere near Denton, Montana.ĭire wolves were native to the Americas and larger than their cousins, the gray wolf. It was almost like it was calling to others.' While looking at it, I saw that it had pointed ears, with tufts of fur, like lynx have, and a muzzle like a German Shepard.'Īfter the dogman stepped over the poster's fence, 'I heard it yip and bark while on the other side, which was prairie, with a butte and then forest. 'I sat up in my bed, frightened, but I didn't feel the need to yell for my parents or anything,' the anonymous Montana poster said. There has been only one reported dogman sighting in Montana, according to the dogman encounters website, which includes a handy map. Others look like a Sasquatch with a Doberman's face.

Some dogmen look like a stretched out dog that walks on two feet. 'Several people report being strong armed into keeping quiet about their reports by men wearing black suits.

'They're spotted each day and the government quells any and all reports,' one person on social media said, according to the Great Falls Tribune. Or, as a website dedicated to dogman encounters defines them: 'cryptozoological beings that are large and sometimes described as looking like upright canids.' It's a dogman: Think bigfoot with a snout. It's Bigfoot: Because it's large and hairy and unexplained. Their leading theories about the mystery creature: The paw of the wolflike creatureBut from that vacuum of information has sprung not-quite-educated guesses from armchair taxonomists and conspiracy theorists - people who have spent entirely too much time staring at a picture of a carcass of a wolfish creature on the tailgate of a pickup truck.

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