It looks like a coyote with a bad case of mange. Mange is very common in coyotes. Many people on this site might not like this but, I work in wildlife rehab and I have a young coyote that looks just like that now. I had one like that last year and with meds the mange cleared up and she looked like a regular coyote. I don't want to start a debate whether or not rehabbing coyotes is right or not and I don't want to make anyone angry. It is a personal choice for me. But yep, that is a mangy coyote.
I've seen a video of a racoon with mange so bad it was mistaken for a chupacabra. It looked really scarry but not like the thing in this photo. I know this will open up the opportunity for some really great jokes, but.....is it possible for a coyote and a racoon to produce an offspring? That's almost what it looks like....with a bad case of mange....
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sorry but i dont think that would work cause coyotes are dogs and racoons are related to pandas and stuff (just looked it up), so not the same family, so not possible, just like a cat (feline) cant breed with a dog (canine), a coyote cant breed with a racoon, different families/groups, sorry...
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The way this society works is When the government Don't understand what things are they make petty excuses to make us think we are crazy. the fact of the matter is there is no Case of mange that completly drys the skin to the point of an animal being hairless. There are 2 types of mange one parasitic and one parasitic that is inherited.
Microscopic parasites called mites cause the disease called mange, and there are actually 2 different types of skin mange. The first and most common type of mange is called demodectic mange, often referred to as red mange. This type of mange most commonly occurs in young puppies and causes areas of hair loss and sometimes scaling of the skin; these pets are rarely itchy. When they do itch, it seems to be the cause of a severe mite infection were secondary bacterial infection of the skin.
Demodectic mange is caused by the demodectic mange mite. All people and animals harbor this mite in their hair follicles, as it is acquired from the mother within hours of birth. Normally these mites knew if quietly within the hair follicles, not causing any problems. In those pets with a genetic defect of the immune system, these normally quiet and innocuous mites begin to reproduce uncontrollably, causing the disease we call demodectic mange. Since this type of mange is an inherited disease and occurs as a result of a suppressed immune system; affected pets should not be bred.
In no case has a dog been found completely hairless. So in my little world the only reasonable anwser could be something along the lines of someone tossing a hairless dog in the wild and it cross breeding with another wild dog thus creating a hairless gene that very well could resurface at a later date in the Dogs Breeding tree. Genetics can Remain dormant for several generations and once cross bred can never truly be bred back out.
Take a Pitbull with 2 colored eyes. Is it really a Pitbull? Absolutly not Somewhere in its pedigree it was bred into a staffordshire terrier then they attempted to bred the staff back out resulting in Blue colored dogs different colored eyes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staffordshire_Bull_Terrier. this is just my theory I bred and rescued Pitbulls for years threw A.D.B.A - U.K.C and - A.A.D.R Are chupacaruba's real? Who knows! What I do know is scientist Find new species of animals each and every year lets take our famous chickens for example. There are cases where the dinosaur traits of thousands of years still resurface in Chickens and some in rare cases are born with Claws on there wings. theres several pics here on this very forums.
My point to this long ramble is simple Do not doubt what you don't know Genetics are genetics and everything came from something. Just don't depend on the media to give you a straight story, Cause it isn't ever gonna happen.
MMPoultryfarms; Thank you for that info. I learn so much on this forum. Understanding mange makes me a little less scared of it. As far as pictures of things that I have no idea what they are, well, that's why I started this thread. I'm actually curious as to what others have seen and couldn't identify. I'm pretty sure that I'm not completely crazy an am considered a reasonable person, and, I keep an open mind to the posibility of things existing that I just don't know about.