Strange sighting: Hill Country Village baffled by mysterious creature

The wild animal was spotted at a north-side home on Tuesday. The property owner is now asking the public to help identify it.

[josephsuarez]

Let’s ask random people with no zoological background to sensationalize this story…

[Mr.spicy]

"The photos are even stumping experts." Cuts to a guy at a gas station.💀

[rconger]

"Pretty much my favorite animal."
It's a cross between a deer and a bear it's called a Beer. They are always sighted after having had too many.

[Akuma-jxdr]

Looks like a Tasmanian tiger without the stripes

[Ed-ofjo]

Even stumps “Experts🥸” as they ask normal people 😂

[meeksjjm]

Why in the hell wouldn’t she take a video of it!? These things never happen to the correct people.

[jf]

“Beautiful yard” now that’s a real friend

[Remmeister]

Definitely canine, probably a mangy dog or a dog coyote cross. (Coy-dog)

[avgrando]

She’s honestly lucky. Photographers sometimes lose their lives, but cameramen never die. Should have pressed record.

[familyemail]

we have 4k phones but every time we see something weird the clarity is always crap

[jaxonboys]

The ever elusive Wolfdogyoti. It has only ever been seen during a leap year. They eat blueberries and salamanders. Great catch!

[velc]

You never know if someone’s exotic “pet” got loose.

[R_A_]

0:25 - 0:40

Oh boy they really reached out to the top wild animal experts in the country.

[katarinavalletta-kzzr]

I might know what this is. It looks like a real, known creature: an ancient species of North American hyena called a RUNNING HYENA (scientific name: Chasmaporthetes Ossifragus). They are usually thought of as extinct, except they really aren't, because people keep seeing them every once in a while. In the 1700s and 1800s, the nickname for these creatures was RINGDOCUS or SHUNKA WARAKIN. There is a taxidermied specimen of one of these at the Idaho Museum of Natural History in Pocatello.

[canuck]

That woman has clearly never seen what a bobcat or mountain lion look like.

[davida.]

Given the guesses here, I'm a bit surprised someone hasn't definitively claimed it to be a javalina-thylacine hybrid!

[DarkWolf-dtbo]

Has anyone noticed that it looks a lot like a thylacine without stripes?
Perhaps some have survived and evolved, losing the stripes over generations. That would be an incredibly great discovery.

[brotherlittlefoot]

I'm having a hard time deciding on being more amazed by the look of the creature or the fact that those pictures were not blurry at all...Take note, Sasquatch researchers!

[WildMen]

"Babe, wake up! A new cryptid just dropped"

[rickcharlespersonal]

Speaking as a former zookeeper who has worked with both wild canids and wild felids, I can at least confidently say this is not a felid (cat) of any kind. The anatomical proportions are 100% canid. I wish the lady had captured it on video instead of just snapping a couple of photos, as seeing it in motion from potentially multiple different angles would have been much more helpful for identification. My best guess is that it's a coyote-dog hybrid with a mange-like skin condition.