Shaggai dog

A Shaggai dog is a sapient alien species created by Darrell Schweitzer for his comedic short story "The Last Horror Out of Arkham".
Their name is a play on "shaggy dog story", an expression used to refer to an intentionally pointless narrative.
==Description==
Shaggai dogs are strange-looking creatures, about as tall as an elephant. They have four long, tapering legs, and no tail. Their bodies are covered in rope-like purplish hair. The head is neither at the front nor the rear end of the body, but in the middle.
Identified by Prof. Latham Knucklebury as a lower form of life on the planet Shaggai, comparable to a dog on Earth, this species is nevertheless sapient and has access to extraordinarily advanced technology. (: "The Last Horror Out of Arkham")
==History==
Centuries ago, the Great Old Ones sent a lone Shaggai dog to Earth, where it assembled a large technological apparatus inside a building where Miskatonic University would eventually be built. The device could bend the fabric of space and duplicate objects from any point in time, which has been used to create countless genuine copies of the Necronomicon, the Book of Eibon, and other exceedingly rare grimoires, thus ensuring that, despite their great rarity, anyone could come across them by complete chance. Once its work was complete, the Shaggai dog went into suspended animation, waiting for the return of its masters. (: "The Last Horror Out of Arkham")
Category:Sapient Species
Category:Extraterrestrial Species
Category:Species Originating From Expanded Mythos Works