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Then where would your dog be?

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― Michael White (Miguelito), Monday, 4 December 2006 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes Laurel, I have my doubts about the cat thing. This skull definitely has a snout, and cats down have those.

(My dog would feast on my carcass, then either die of a broken heart that I had left him, or saunter casually around to a neighbour's house and steal their dinner too. I suspect the latter).

― C J (C J), Monday, 4 December 2006 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link

cats down? I mean cats don't.

Stupid fingers.

― C J (C J), Monday, 4 December 2006 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Cats down!? You mean like an exotic duvet filler?

― Michael White (Miguelito), Monday, 4 December 2006 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link

That wouldn't work. All that wriggling about and miaowing all night long!

The cats wouldn't get a wink of sleep.

― C J (C J), Monday, 4 December 2006 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

If it's round Oxfordshire, it could be the fabled monkeydog - a half-monkey half-dog creature that roamed the fields around Aston Tirrold when I was young, creating fear in all those who would go out after dark and cause mischief. No-one, of course, ever saw it, but all the kdis knew it was there, and was sure that if it set it's glowing red eyes upon you, you'd be mincemeat before you could say urban legend.

― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Monday, 4 December 2006 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Tim Henman lives in Aston Tirrold.

Say. no. more.

― C J (C J), Monday, 4 December 2006 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I think badger isn't too far off - the one you linked to first wasn't a European/Eurasian badger, I believe. They can get bigger than you'd expect, too (more than a meter in length) :

http://www.wiltshireheritage.org.uk/uploads/images/159/l_1badger_skull.JPG

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 4 December 2006 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

vs.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v506/Paronomasiac/Skull_05.jpg

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 4 December 2006 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I have a badger's sett (of three generations, all living together) in my garden, Stan - I frequently see them lumbering about at night, scooping great divots of turf out of my lawns and eating their way around my vegetable garden. I once found a dead grandad-badger lying near the sett (we had to get the RSPCA to come and remove him, as they are a protected species and you aren't allowed to touch them), and he was really very big indeed.

This skeleton was larger than that though. More than Great Dane size, I guess.

― C J (C J), Monday, 4 December 2006 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Definitely had longer legs than a badger, too.

― C J (C J), Monday, 4 December 2006 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I was gonna say, merkin badgers be differing.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 4 December 2006 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Can dogs and badgers, er, if they like each other very much, well, could they have, you know?

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 4 December 2006 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Make a bog? or a dadger?

― C J (C J), Monday, 4 December 2006 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link

(Dodger Dogger Baddog Bodger Bagine Candger ?)

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 4 December 2006 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link

That sounds like the Shipping Forecast.

― C J (C J), Monday, 4 December 2006 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link

once boiled the skin and flesh off a skull, for a science project

that one looks like a dog

also: friend came back from Benin, where he was studying voodoo (anthropologically), brought with him chicken bones dipped in blood. given as gifts

― grbchv! (gbx), Monday, 4 December 2006 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.takingthelead.co.uk/3/Anatomy/dog_skulls.htm

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 4 December 2006 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, it's a shame it's all about ipods and X-boxes these days. I yearn for the simpler times when kids were happy to be given monkey skulls and blood-dipped chicken bones.

― C J (C J), Monday, 4 December 2006 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Heeeey, chihuahuas look ugly and evil even BENEATH the skin!

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 4 December 2006 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link

That chihuahua looks quite smiley.

― C J (C J), Monday, 4 December 2006 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I reckon either a collie or a great dane, based on those skulls.

― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Monday, 4 December 2006 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe German Shepherd, too.

― C J (C J), Monday, 4 December 2006 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I know a couple of humans who have a pug skull :-/

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 4 December 2006 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link

http://pug-pictures.com/PoseyLou.jpg

― C J (C J), Monday, 4 December 2006 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe it's from a big broad-headed dog, like a newfie or a rottie. Or a bulldog! Poor baby dog.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 00:30 (seventeen years ago) link

No—not squash-faced enough for a bulldog. Hey—what about a boar? Do their tusks look like dog canines?

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 00:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I must vote Chickenbear as well.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 00:33 (seventeen years ago) link

http://static.flickr.com/36/79217274_45cb474f9d_m.jpg

boar skull

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 00:34 (seventeen years ago) link

No, they have tusks that stick out at an angle on the top jaw as well as the bottom. Shoot.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 00:37 (seventeen years ago) link

http://paleodirect.com/images/textimages/boarskullanteriorlm41-005.jpg

as you can see here.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 00:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I still wonder if those teeth are too spread-out to be your average dog's.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 00:39 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.amonline.net.au/mammals/images/gallery/400/dog_skull_10.jpg

ventral view of wolf skull. Some differences there.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 00:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I think it's yr duty to make a silly artskool Jan Svankmajer fakey sto motion flick with your covetable and curious find.

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 01:00 (seventeen years ago) link

hmm, i'm thinking of uk location and the fact you found it in the woods, it could be a fox skull

― Ste (fuzzy), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 01:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Fox is probably about the right size, but the images of fox skulls I see on google dont have the forward thrusting teeth. I think it's a smallish bulldog type pup. Maybe a juvenile staffie pup or something.

― austin!@#$ (austin), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 01:58 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.nhc.ed.ac.uk/images/collections/mammals/carnivora/redfoxskull.jpg

― latebloomer (clonefeed), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 03:32 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.nhc.ed.ac.uk/images/collections/mammals/carnivora/redfoxskull.jpg

― latebloomer (clonefeed), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 03:33 (seventeen years ago) link

http://courses.washington.edu/vertebra/452/photos/mammals/fox_skull_ventral.jpg

― latebloomer (clonefeed), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 03:35 (seventeen years ago) link

http://members.aol.com/thefightingfury/whoclix/skrull.gif

SKRULL!!

― austin!@#$ (austin), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 04:45 (seventeen years ago) link

i think we have a match!

― latebloomer (clonefeed), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 05:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess those bulbous things (the auditory bullae—bony capsules enclosing the middle and inner ear) were broken off in CJ's specimen.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link

the metallic purple suit probably had already melted away as well.

― latebloomer! (clonefeed), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link

No, no it hadn't. That was still there.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I hope you are wearing it. It bestows super-powers, as long as you don't go into the woods.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

The woods are rotten with kryptonite.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I am wearing it right now. Plus the dog skull is upon my head, at a jaunty angle, tied on with pink ribbon. Fear me, I am Dog Woman.

It's a German Shepherd dog, by the way. I took it to ANNE EXPERT who confirmed it for me.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Cause of death?

― Rumps (Rumps), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't know.

ANNE EXPERT's first comment was that someone probably took the dog out to the woods and shot it, but there's no bullet wound visible on the skull. I suppose it's possible that it ingested some poison of some sort. It certainly looked as though it had died in its sleep, all curled up peacefully :(

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

:( ?

Would "looks like it died violently" have been a :) ?

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link

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