The mummified dog was a shocking find for the loggers, who were working on cutting the tree into pieces, and almost turned it into mulch the loggers were working on a grove of chestnut oaks in southern Georgia when they found a most unusual sight. Experts who studied the carcass concluded that the pup was most likely a hunting dog from the 1960s, who had chased something such as a squirrel through a hole in the roots, and up the center of the hollow tree.