This sounds like eagle sh!t. I have seen large bald eagles struggle to fly with a 3-4 lb. pink salmon. An 18 lb. poodle? I doubt it.
Chupacabra.
A few years back in Victoria (BC), there was a rash of disappearing cats from the upper floors of an apartment building near Beacon Hill Park.
Later that fall, a giant windstorm hit and brought down some of the bigger trees in the park - and in one of the fallen giants, searchers found a bald eagle’s nest filled with cat skeletons.
True story.
“This sounds like eagle sh!t.”
Indeed!