[Tennessee_Bob]

Well, something out here is eating house pets.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

That may be, but normally a new organization that ISNT the Enqurier doesn't assume it's a possibly fictional creature.

If anything, the logical assumption would be that it was an escaped exotic pet. After all, NYC had a man with a tiger in an apartment. And they found an alligator in a pond in Boston this summer.

In neither case did the press at first assume we were dealing with bogeymen or lake monsters.

[redangus]

I was just in TN for a week and heard one of the greatest quote from the public I have ever heard. A woman in Campbell county was asked about the possibilty there was a "skunk ape" killing pets in her neighborhood. Her answer to the reporter was, "all I know is that we have our guns ready and if this ape comes back here and bothers our pets there is going to be one dead monkey". I loved it. You don't mess with these peoples.