User blog comment:Blood Reaper/Todd Howard Hinting at Future DLC's and Patches/@comment-151.188.213.231-20120306132914/@comment-76.17.238.192-20120313170152

About that, lycanthropy means they would be a werewolf. Werewolves turn into wolves. To have them turn into something else would mean changing what they were ie. werecrocodile, weresabercat, and werepanther.