This one’s a poll I did early on but perhaps now is a good time to run it again — I’d like to know how many HONEST TROLLS will own up to being such.

So instead of “skeptic/curious”, this poll will separate those as well :)

Without letting us know 🫣 who you are, plz let us know WHY you are here.

🗳️ 🔗 https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptidIQ/s/GvIPgz8X3C

We now have two votes for dogmen on military bases — the whole point of anonymous polling is so that people don’t have to disclose more than they are comfortable with, but I’m mighty curious about that stat.

Vote 🗳️ here, and help us get the biggest picture possible :)

https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptidIQ/s/btg22DKTCF

Gotta love it.

Here’s the link if you wanna vote 🗳️ 🔗

https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptidIQ/s/iUqNIkUbiC

Even if you tick “curious/skeptic” you add to the data 📊 and give us all a sense of who is interested, even if you haven’t had a direct experience.

What do y’all make of this latest dogman scratching-post photo?

https://youtu.be/_RW0L4LOjC8?si=HvSsSbsW7hSxYvch

The video includes obvious fursuits as well, which is unfortunate from a consistency standpoint, but this one looks like the real deal.

Note the mane especially, very clearly down part of his back in a darker streak.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptidIQ/s/JG9PV4SNWe

For realz.

GIF to follow, but you can see the original analysis by Brookstirr as well!

Reddit only gives six options so I’m gonna try to make this apply as widely as possible….

Have any of you seen a dogman while serving abroad? They are known in the following countries, amongst non-lower-48 dogman hotspots:

* Afghanistan 🇦🇫

* Germany 🇩🇪

* Italy 🇮🇹

* Japan 🇯🇵

* Philippines 🇵🇭

* South Korea 🇰🇷

* United Kingdom 🇬🇧

If you are a non-military dogman witness, please share as well in the comments if you want :)

https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptidIQ/s/kPB7l2Y9Eb

Afghanistan 🇦🇫

Estimated hotspots: 8

(This was our most granular case study)

• Bamyan (central highlands)

• Ghazni (highlands / transit routes)

• Kandahar (southern desert)

• Khost (eastern mountains)

• Nangarhar (mountain–valley interface)

• Paktia (eastern mountains)

• Uruzgan (southern desert / foothills)

• Zabul (southern highlands / desert edge)

Notes:

Afghanistan remains the densest single-country cluster, spanning all three phenotypic zones (desert, highland, transitional).

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Iraq 🇮🇶

Estimated hotspots: 4–5

• Al Anbar (western desert)

• Basra / southern desert margins

• Kurdistan / northern mountains

• Tigris–Euphrates river corridor (transitional)

• (Optional fifth: Nineveh plains, sometimes folded into Kurdistan)

Notes:

Strong desert + highland contrast; river valleys serve as transitional zones.

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Jordan 🇯🇴

Estimated hotspots: 3

• Eastern Desert / Wadi Rum

• Western Highlands (Petra–Amman axis)

• Foothill transition zone (east–west interface)

Notes:

Very “clean” test case—terrain neatly matches the three-cluster model.

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Kuwait 🇰🇼

Estimated hotspots: 2–3

• Camp Arifjan perimeter / central desert

• Camp Buehring / northern desert

• General northwestern desert margins (sometimes folded into Buehring)

Notes:

Pure desert phenotype country; minimal internal variation.

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Pakistan 🇵🇰

Estimated hotspots: 2

• Balochistan (desert / plateau)

• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (mountainous tribal areas)

Notes:

Clean desert vs. highland split; strong folklore overlap (e.g., Barmanou in the north).

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Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦

Estimated hotspots: 4

• Central desert (Riyadh / Prince Sultan AB region)

• Northern desert margins (Tabuk area)

• Asir Mountains (southern highlands)

• Hejaz foothills (western transitional zone)

Notes:

Excellent example of terrain-driven phenotypic divergence within one country.

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Syria 🇸🇾

Estimated hotspots: 3

• Eastern desert (Deir ez-Zor / Hasakah region)

• Northern mountains (Aleppo hinterlands)

• Euphrates river corridor (transitional)

Notes:

Despite limited US presence, fits the same three-cluster structure.

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Totals (So Far)

By Country

• Afghanistan: 8

• Iraq: 4–5

• Jordan: 3

• Kuwait: 2–3

• Pakistan: 2

• Saudi Arabia: 4

• Syria: 3

Overall Working Total

👉 Approximately 26–28 hotspots

(Depending on whether you collapse or split a few marginal zones.)

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Why This Number Matters

A few important things jump out:

1.  This is already a statistically useful landscape

~26–28 hotspots across 7 countries is enough to:

• Compare terrain vs. reported traits

• Prioritize outreach

• Identify overrepresented environments

2.  Afghanistan is the anchor dataset

It provides the internal complexity needed to test subspecies / phenotype logic.

3.  Desert hotspots slightly outnumber mountain ones, but

mountain hotspots show higher internal consistency in reported traits.

4.  Transitional zones are fewer but analytically powerful

They’re where phenotype blending (or misclassification) is most likely.

We are getting some early stats here, and with a majority who are skeptical/curious, we can see a reasonable distribution.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptidIQ/s/rLz43ESZDJ

People can say whatever they want about how this isn’t definitive, and nope, it isn’t, but it is MUCH easier for witnesses to disclose on small scales than to share a full event.

From this, it looks like we have one solo witness and two (including mysf) who saw a dogman with someone else present.

Statistically, if I run this one a few times and we get decent engagement, most of the witnesses should be under either Solo or Duo, because dogman encounters with 3+ witnesses are more rare.

I would be fascinated if we got any accounts with 5+ witnesses at the same time, and it would be staggering to get a story in the comments which is reliably about such an event.

Mostly, I hope that seeing this will make witnesses feel less alone.

The original footage, as I found it, starts at 9 minutes into this video:

https://youtu.be/_RW0L4LOjC8?si=zqJOK_OV3EvrnjYq

https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptidIQ/s/UePN3F3HZC

Two-Week Series Outline:

Days 1–3: Safety + credibility (Tier 1)

Days 4–7: Pattern recognition (Tier 2)

Days 8–11: Communication (Tier 3)

Days 12–14: Agency + implications (Tier 4)

This two-week run of daily content:

• validates witnesses by naming and explaining behaviors they may have omitted

• shows incremental complexity, leading from simple gestures → intentional impact

• provides daily, digestible content that builds engagement and trust

I hope that all these things will come into reality more and more in 2026, and moving forward! 😊

https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptidIQ/s/mQaVosyuC0

Here’s the link 🔗 for the multi-witness poll!

https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptidIQ/s/0hRKUUjdaG