Weird Creature in Maine
Date 2004/8/31 13:08:57 | Topic: cryptozoo

A couple of weeks ago, a Doberman pinscher was mauled by something nobody has been able to identify. It's surely not a wolverine, say the wildlife experts. We don't have them here. It's probably a fisher, the same experts say. Those buggers can be pretty mean.

A fisher? Ha! So say more than a half-dozen people who have contacted me. "There's been talk of a strange animal out here for years," said Steve Theberge, who lives in the Wales area. "They say it stands about 4 feet tall. I hear it's a pretty strange-looking creature."

Theberge is not making this up. His father-in-law has seen the creature. His son has seen it and his wife had an up-close look six years ago. "This thing, it just hopped over the road and then it stood there," said Brenda Theberge. "It was tan and gray and it had these weird eyes. It was sunset and those eyes were just glowing."
Shortly after hearing the spine-tingling scream, Steve found tracks through dirt and mud in his yard. The tracks were bigger than his hand and bore the imprints of three claws.

"I've spent a lot of time in the Maine woods," Theberge said. "I've never seen a track like that."

When confronted with something that seems alien in the familiar surroundings of our homes, a primitive chill crawls up the spine. As evolved humans, we are at once terrified and fascinated by the unknown. We are a superior species, we reason, and thus we have control over our wildlife.

So when Leo Michaud reported that something had crept from the woods behind his Wales home and killed his Doberman pinscher, wildlife experts nodded knowingly. It was a fisher, they said. A small but vicious animal with a nasty reputation in the Maine woods. It was certainly not some exotic beast that crept down from the mountains.

Shortly after hearing the spine-tingling scream, Steve found tracks through dirt and mud in his yard. The tracks were bigger than his hand and bore the imprints of three claws.

Mark LaFlamme is the Sun Journal crime reporter.

and a link
http://www.warphead.com/modules/news/print.php?storyid=510

i live in wales, and this was a pretty big story in our local paper. four Maine guides have seen the tracks of this animal and have confirmed that it is not a coyote, wolf, fisher, black bear, or bobcat. Wolverines are not known to be here in Maine, but you never know. to kill a doberman?
I know one person who claims to have seen this creature, and the best they can discribe it is like a very big hyena. Perhaps someone in the area has an exotic animal.
Discuss.

Creepy, make sure you play it safe if going near the bush.

I don't know what sort of wildlife you normally have over there so can't really comment, but I'm sure others will.

Also, just to give you all a topography of the area; it is mostly flat farmlands that grow corn. there is a mountain with a cave system that mostly houses porcupines, and many properties lie on sabattus lake. and there is a lot of woods also. i have 14 acres out of 54 myself.
just some additional info for those smarter than I to employ.

hmmmm..... sounds freaky

Wow. sounds very vicious to maul and kill a doberman. I hope they find out what it is.

Awesome a new cryptid in my book! It does sound a little creepy. I hope to find more info on it. So that's all it's called? The Creature of Wales?

Probably a feral of some sort.

i just read the whole forum on the link i posted, and i would take that last post with a grain of a salt since there is no route 131, 90, or 17.

just so you all know, there hasn't been a report of this creature since the middle of december of last year.

i don't know about the feral thing panthera. three toes? i tried finding any print pics or just pics in general, but could not.. three distinct toes, not three toes on both feet with little nub inprints from where other toes were.

i've never seen anything freaky-deaky in the woods here in maine, but we get many a fake bigfoot reports.

you woild be suprised how far wolverines will travel south. Also few domesticated animals, no matter how fierce can go up against wild animals. if this dober man chagered a wolf or a cougar, then its likely o get mauled. as for the tracts i don't know util i se um if i can say wether or not they are known.

It was a cougar most likely. We have them in Maine despite what the biologists want people to believe. There are also wolves, and most likely a few wolverines. The idea of it being a fisher is just ridiculous - sure they are mean for their size, but they wouldn't tear a doberman apart.

I talked to someone from the area that confirmed there was a mountain lion living in the area. The descriptions match a cougar pretty closely too.

WOO MAINE!!!... im pretty sure there were some other things like that tha happend....in......grey....no.. thats too far south.. but yeah i have heard of other attacks...

so did you all hear about that creature that was found in Maine. I'm from Maine myself and live about 10 miles from where it was found. most of my family lives in this area and this animal is known to have killed many dogs, cats, and other animals. It is light/dark grey, glowing eyes, short ears, short snout, and fangs that curl and hang over it's lips. It has been pretty much around these parts for half a generation. It has been seen in Litchfield by a few of my friends crossing the road and looking straight at them. As well as Sabbattus, Lewiston, Wales, Green, Turner(where it was found dead over the weekend), and who knows where else. It's deffinately evil, evil looking. It's been all over the news and papers around the world. no one is quite sure what this animal is??? I've heard stories since I was little kid about this animal and this is the first time it has actually been found. Pretty weird huh?
http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/exper...c=6&cid=842 hybrid mutant?

5th thread on this.

We have them in these parts as well the locals call it "The Chow" they tend to be dark/light grey in these parts.

Actually, this one was started over a year ago. I'd dsay this is probably the first thread on this...good job by waynefromMaine to dig it up, as the recent threads about the Maine cryptid relate to this story.

Most likely the culprit is a bear or moose, both of which can inflict hideous damage on a dog the size of a Doberman. A moose will stomp it into something unrecognizable and a bear will rip it to shreds and eat part (or most) of it. I'm not familiar with Maine, either, but it's way up in the north with a lot of wooded areas that contain bears... As for the creature itself, it could be a deformed dog or wolf. I have a Siberian Husky female that could easily maul a Doberman if she wanted to (she brought down a full grown goat - weighed 95lbs - before we finally had to pen her up in a permanent dog run), so another dog attacking the Dobie is not completely out of the question.