OMG, you totally nailed that GIF! I'm a huge Dirk Gently fan!
More on the Hodag: The hodag is part of Wisconsin folklore and is mentioned in several Paul Bunyan stories. In 1893, Eugene Shepard and a group of locals claimed that they had captured and killed one, claiming that they had to use dynamite to kill it! The legend continues as the hodag is now the official symbol of Rhinelander, Wisconsin as well as it's high school mascot.