Some kind of superdog?

I came here to ask the very same thing! All the references to 'wild dogs' also seemed important...

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it seems weird that it was really left open!

contains spoilers about the plot and film ending -

In one of the last scenes, he looks in the 4x4 type vehicle after the shoot out (the driver is dead in the front) and in the back seat there was scratch marks on the back seat he sees. It is a reference to the dogs (and there is a dogs theme throughout the whole film with the sounds and the various townspeople fearful of them). The scratch marks are not a dogs but sadly Julie Mason fighting on the backseat because he then finds her missing jewellery there!

I think the super dogs and dogs plot is to do with the police covering themselves up, they messed with the DNA somehow. The "super dog" was blamed but it's something to do with police corruption.

There is a sub theme to the whole movie about dogs, I think it alludes to the town going "wild" and people being attacked and behaving badly. But also it alludes to the racism going on the town. I think due to editing or whatever, the dogs theme was not entirely finished or works successfully. But I think the super dog DNA is something to do with the police covering themselves. In the end of the movie, it's the corrupt police / drug dealers and town baddies who did all the things the "wild dogs" were blamed for I think. Just my ideas anyway, it was a sub plot which was never finished properly.

Most of the time Pete had what looked like pure-bred hunting dogs in the back of his pickup. Probably these were used to hunt down the girls and may therefore have bitten them before or after they were killed. Why super-dog, I don't know. Maybe a pure breed would show up different from the mongrel strays the coroner guy was expecting.

I also took it as a way of saying there are labelled "whites" and "blacks" or "dogs" and "wild dogs". Remember Jay asked the question was asked "how can you tell the difference?" between types of dogs. And the genetics coming back as "super dog" (inconclusive) showed that we are all one and the same inside. Wild dog/normal dog... black/white... these are labels society gives that mean nothing genetically and say nothing about that inner character of someone... I am not sure, but that is what I took away from that super dog...

I took it as a possible link to the involvement of Pete Bailey. Bush hunters are always in search of the latest & greatest canine hybrids, and breeders are happy to oblige.