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When I was on the road a few years ago, I spotted a strange animal alongside the road. I believe my trainer and I were in New Mexico...maybe Colorado. Either way, we were driving at dusk, and, I saw these dog-like animals, with antlers, and what appeared to be pig snouts. Now, I'm not saying that there's some new creature out there, like Bigfoot, or anything. I just don't know enough about animals to identify this thing that I saw.
It was about 2 feet high, with paws (NOT hooves), antlers that were about 6-inches long, it moved like a dog, had the snout of a dog, but the nose of a pig (sort of). They were a tan-to-light-brown color. The never made noise, and they traveled in packs. I saw a lot of them dead on the side of the road.
If anyone can help me, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks, guys...and keep it safe out there!
Chuckles,
Are you serious?
It sounds to me like either a joke or some serious driver fatigue. I've never heard of such a thing and I thought I had heard of about every wierd animal on the NA continent.
I'm not calling you a liar, just saying it is very hard to believe without proof. Especially for someone from the home area of both the jeer and the jackelope -- a jack rabbit with either the antlers of a deer for a jeer or the horns of an antelope for jackelope. I've seen them both mounted, but in every case they turned out to be very good taxidermy rather than the corpses of actual animals.
I wish you good luck in identifying them and if you get an identification, I'd like to hear what it was and where I could get more factual information on them, because they seem to be a very interesting animal.
Don Jones
Chuckles,
I ran this by several of my acquaintances who are from the Southwest and everyone seems to agree that it sounds like antelope, also called pronghorns, and you just didn't see the hooves and mistook the strange coloring of their noses for pig like snouts.
They are about the size of a very large dog, light tan and white with short upright horns that slightly split into prongs at the end. They are very common in New Mexico, parts of North Texas, Eastern Colorado, Wyoming, and parts of Montana and Idaho, but it isn't real common to see them as road kill. They seem to avoid the highways and they are not nocturnal like deer so they don't get frozen in the headlights like deer do, so they usually don't get hit.
I hope this helps.
Don Jones
It sounds like a dogaolpe with a pig nose stay back very dangous can snoot u to death get some sleep
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