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Baby Mystery Animal Caught, Identified (Fox With Mange in Maryland)
WBAL ^
Posted on 08/02/2004 12:53:48 PM PDT by VadeRetro
GLYNDON, Md. -- The mystery may be over as one of the creatures roaming through central Maryland was finally captured on Saturday.
According to the veterinarians at Falls Road Animal Hospital, the animal was a male red fox. However, Dr. Michael Herko -- a vet at the animal hospital -- and the man who caught the fox say it is not the mysterious creature videotaped in July, but a relative.
Jay Wroe set a trap in his back yard after videotaping an animal that was roaming around. It was an animal he could not immediately identify.
The humane trap paid off on Saturday when Wroe went out to check the cage and saw from a distance that he had caught something.
"This one is definitely the baby to the mother because the one I filmed was obviously bigger than this thing," Wroe said.
Animal control officers took the creature to the Falls Road Animal Hospital. They determined it was a fox with sarcoptic mange.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: cryptozoology; et; extraterrestrial; flying; flyingsaucer; hyote; mange; martian; martiananimal; mysterycreature; object; ufo; unidentified
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Those looking for the chupacabra will have to find another candidate.
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posted on
08/02/2004 12:53:50 PM PDT
by
VadeRetro
To: VadeRetro
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posted on
08/02/2004 12:54:42 PM PDT
by
VadeRetro
To: VadeRetro
Well, there goes my theory that it was Barbara Mikulsky out on the campaign trail. Nobody could ever mistake her for a fox, even an especially mangy fox.
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posted on
08/02/2004 12:56:40 PM PDT
by
blau993
(Labs for love; .357 for Security.)
To: blau993
Much too skinny to be Babs.
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posted on
08/02/2004 12:58:27 PM PDT
by
VadeRetro
To: VadeRetro
People can't identify a red fox when they see one????
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posted on
08/02/2004 12:59:03 PM PDT
by
gilliam
To: gilliam
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posted on
08/02/2004 1:00:25 PM PDT
by
SuperSonic
(Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. - George Jean Nathan)
To: blau993
Hillary would qualify as a vixen with sarcoptic mange. It has a tendency to locate on the ears, elbows, hocks and butt. Hillary attracted Bill when she wore a pork chop around her neck.
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posted on
08/02/2004 1:00:38 PM PDT
by
vetvetdoug
(In memory of T/Sgt. Secundino "Dean" Baldonado, Jarales, NM-KIA Bien Hoa AFB, RVN 1965)
To: gilliam
Basically, yes. This one is the baby of the one they couldn't identify earlier. Mamma was something like hairless (versus 70 percent for this one) and the available pics were Godawful.
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posted on
08/02/2004 1:02:02 PM PDT
by
VadeRetro
To: VadeRetro
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posted on
08/02/2004 1:03:06 PM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.)
To: gilliam
People can't identify a red fox when they see one???? The dead one was pretty much hairless. Hairless animals often look quiet different than their usual fur-covered form. Those hairless cats, for example, look pretty freaky.
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posted on
08/02/2004 1:04:55 PM PDT
by
Ichneumon
("...she might as well have been a space alien." - Bill Clinton, on Hillary, "My Life", p. 182)
To: Ichneumon
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posted on
08/02/2004 1:07:47 PM PDT
by
Fierce Allegiance
( "Stay safe in the "sandbox", cuz!)
To: Ichneumon
The dead one was in Texas. Still not sure what that was.
In this Maryland case the bad photos were taken by a live animal triggering some kind of shutter trap. That, and some live sightings by people who had no idea what they'd seen, was all the info available until now.
To: VadeRetro; Flyer; technochick99; sinkspur; annyokie; Scott from the Left Coast; 88keys; ...
Ping!
Animal control has custody of the fox and plans to rehabilitate the animal to release back into the wild.
Here are some of the original pictures of the 'other' one... I did guess that it was ~something~ with mange... coyote or dog of some kind.
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posted on
08/02/2004 1:11:10 PM PDT
by
HairOfTheDog
(~*-,._.,-*~Loves her hubbit~*-,._.,-*~)
To: VadeRetro
ah yes the mysterious...
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posted on
08/02/2004 1:12:53 PM PDT
by
arielb
To: VadeRetro
To: SuperSonic
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posted on
08/02/2004 1:24:05 PM PDT
by
BadAndy
(Specializing in unnecessarily harsh comments.)
To: VadeRetro
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posted on
08/02/2004 1:25:03 PM PDT
by
KeyWest
To: VadeRetro
I have seen hairless coyotes with mange in south Texas.
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posted on
08/02/2004 1:25:37 PM PDT
by
Ditter
To: HairOfTheDog
Oh, the poor thing!
Sarcoptic mange is so awful. I hope they can clear it up.
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posted on
08/02/2004 1:25:39 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
To: gilliam
People can't identify a red fox when they see one????Well, they are pretty rarely seen in these parts, and all people had to look at were some pretty grainy pictures like those I posted above.
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posted on
08/02/2004 1:28:14 PM PDT
by
HairOfTheDog
(~*-,._.,-*~Loves her hubbit~*-,._.,-*~)
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