the gévaudan beast keeps getting called a 'dragon' online and i need to set the record sorta straight

ok this one's only half on-topic for a dragon thread but hear me out, the period accounts described it as a thing that 'seemed to fly or bound across the fields' so the dragon crowd adopted it, and now half the cryptid pages list La Bête like it's some winged horror. let me actually go through it. ……