‘Demonic’: Headless canine, probably coyote, discovered on Port Stanley seashore

An 18-year-old lady made a surprising discovery whereas walking on the seashore in Port Stanley on the weekend.

Quinn, who requested to solely be recognized by her first identify, was taking a day stroll together with her mother and her golden retriever on the pumphouse seashore within the Lake Erie neighborhood Saturday when she stepped over a log and got here throughout a decapitated canine.

“I screamed. I was like, ‘Oh, my gosh,’ and I fell back pulling him (my dog) back, because I didn’t want him to get into it,” she mentioned of the carcass. “We got really close and right away my mom’s like, ‘There’s no head.’”

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A crowd of shocked onlookers quickly gathered, Quinn mentioned. “The one woman mentioned to us, ‘That is demonic.’”

Quinn reported the dead animal and the OPP responded around 3:40 p.m. Saturday, a spokesperson said Monday.

“The exact species of the remains was not determined, but did appear to be a medium-sized canine, possibly a coyote,” Const. Brett Phair said in an email. “There was nothing located on the animal or in the area to suggest that the animal was domesticated.”

The investigation is ongoing, Phair said.

The grisly find has fuelled speculation on social media, where users in a Port Stanley Facebook group falsely claimed the decapitated animal was a golden retriever, sparking fear and outrage.

Some users also made unverified claims of other decapitated animals found on the beach, but police didn’t affirm these claims.

Quinn believes the confusion is as a result of her golden retriever was together with her when she discovered the lifeless animal.

“It did look like a coyote. Right off the bat, its fur looked like a coyote,” Quinn mentioned, estimating the animal weighed greater than 20 kilograms.

“We talked to someone in the area and they see coyotes walking on the beach often.”

This wouldn’t be the primary time a headless coyote has been present in Southwestern Ontario.

Those coyote killings, together with a string of different grotesque animal deaths, prompted criminologist Mike Arntfield to invest a serial animal killer was behind the killings.