This week’s creature is a “fearsome critter” from the forests of Wisconsin and Minnesota. The Axhandle Hound is a nocturnal dog-like creature with a whip thin body and a head shaped like the head of an ax.
This thin, troublemaking hound has a preferred diet of axe handles. At night, it will sneak into lumberjacks’ camps and steal the handle off of the axes! They will store some of the handles away to eat later.
Lumberjacks report that the Axhandle Hounds are not aggressive, they just like to cause a bit of mischief and eat the handles off of the axes. Some report that they make for expensive pets, as all they will eat is ax handles.
Want to read more? Check out The Unnatural History Museum entry on them!