Now after all that some specialist who examined the remains believes it was a wild dog. ``I think this dead animal is a chow or chow-mix, a relatively small dog, that was feral, which is unusual for that area," Loren Coleman, a Portland author and cryptozoologist "
Some other people think otherwise including: it's a goat-sheep hybrid, a Tasmanian devil, a dingo, a wolf, or coyote. Some of the more outlandish theories involve mutations and extraterrestrials.