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The legendary Chupacabra, a mysterious animal that is said to prey on livestock, may actually exist. A Texas farmer who's turkeys were being killed set a trap and caught an unidentified animal. Link includes video, but sound doesn't seem to work.


http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/4895017/detail.html

Ooo. Interesting.

Hope it's not a hoax though, those bite.

Cool, I guess now we might finally find out what the Chupacabras really are.

It doesn't look like a blood-sucker.

someone gave a joey a brazillian :eek:

someone gave a joey a brazillian :eek:
What's a brazilian?

Somehow, I think thats going to wind up as some type of feral dog/coyote/fox type thing.

looks like a nice place to die though. :rolleyes:

Personally I think the chupacabra is a pretty dumb legend to begin with. Supposedly it's just a rodent like creature that the sucks blood of farm animals.

I'll be impressed when we take out Big Foot, Sasqwatch,The Lock Ness Monster, or Godzilla.

Looks like a dog.

Personally I think the chupacabra is a pretty dumb legend to begin with. Supposedly it's just a rodent like creature that the sucks blood of farm animals.

I'll be impressed when we take out Big Foot, Sasqwatch,The Lock Ness Monster, or Godzilla.

"I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. There's a large out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside."

Looks like a mangy, underfed canine of some sort.

Looks like a mangy, underfed canine of some sort.

Thats what I'm thinking too.

I'm thinking it's some sort of interspecies sex scandel.

Kinda like one of the Conan O'Brien "If they Mated" things.

What's a brazilian?

are you serious?

are you serious?
Yeah. What's a Brazilian?

Yeah. What's a Brazilian?

I believe it has something to do with a type of wax, some paper, and losing some hair somewhere where its gonna hurt a bit.

Um yes.
Not that I've had one.
It's how models in gent's magazines, actresses of a certain genre of movie, and anyone who wants to goes completely hairless, if you get my meaning.

I believe it has something to do with a type of wax, some paper, and losing some hair somewhere where its gonna hurt a bit.
Oh, Ok.

Aren't these things supposed to be some sort of lizzard like animal that live in Brazil?

Um yes.
Not that I've had one.
It's how models in gent's magazines, actresses of a certain genre of movie, and anyone who wants to goes completely hairless, if you get my meaning.


They could weave that hair into yarn and start a line of fall sweaters and mittens with it.

Um yes.
Not that I've had one.
It's how models in gent's magazines, actresses of a certain genre of movie, and anyone who wants to goes completely hairless, if you get my meaning.

So, it's a hairdresser from South America?

It's either a coyote or a feral dog with sarcoptic mange - they are invariably skinny from the infection. I have shot one similar and seen others. It's not uncommon.

The forelegs appear short, but I suspect they are curled beneath the body.

I had thought maybe coyote, but without fur, the shape of the animal looks off.

But yeah, I've seen a dog that was so infested with fleas it was nearly as hairless as that one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chupacabra

Read the sightings bit.

Read the "sightings" part- How'd you like to have to tell people your from "Varginha""?

Yeah. What's a Brazilian?
A nut. :)

here's one explanation:

http://www.countryworldnews.com/Editorial/ETX/2004/et102804Creature.htm

I think it's a mangey canine. The one I shot looked the same but for a ridge of hair down the spine, making it look somewhat hyena-like. I have photos of it somewhere...

Is this a Weekly World News parody or something? :sniper:

It's either a coyote or a feral dog with sarcoptic mange - they are invariably skinny from the infection. I have shot one similar and seen others. It's not uncommon.

The forelegs appear short, but I suspect they are curled beneath the body.

I agree with you except I think it is probably demodectic mange. The hair loss seems to be over the whole body so may simply be the animal never had hair. Also, I don't see signs of scratching like you would with sarcoptic mange.

Chupacabra killed by Texas farmer!

'Bout time.

'Bout time.

I always knew one of you Texans would end up catchin the thing.

Look, a new dead chupacabra!

Whats so cool about killing it though. Honestly, wouldn't it be cooler to catch and use against your enemies?

You know, I just recently found out that I live in prime Bigfoot country (there was a prominant sighting down the street from me and the town next over has numerous sightings, according to the dude running the Bigfoot Museum down the street...) and then there is this:
Notable sightings in the United States include the one reported by multiple eye-witnesses in Calaveras County, California and at a recent birthday celebration of a Development Team member of a local charity in Houston, Texas. According to these reports, the creature was sighted for the first time in the early to middle 1990s, harming animals of different species - although it is now thought that people did this themselves.
Calaveras County is kinda far, but not that far from me-relatively speaking.


Now, in a state where we have to keep relocating Mountain Lions because of developments how in the hell are these two predators (one thats seven freakin' feet tall) remain hidden? What the hell?

Yeah, I know.

Whats so cool about killing it though. Honestly, wouldn't it be cooler to catch and use against your enemies?

Have you made a lot of enemies out of chickens? I heard your mama talk to you about that.

Being from Puerto Rico, we got chupacabra sightings/dead livestock there quite often.

My grandmother lives in a pseudo-rural area (as in, 5 minutes from one of the major cities but far away enough that some farmers have plots of land nearby) and I heard all the tales and what-not about the dead critters.

Seems that the animals definetely do get killed and drained, but most sources down there just believe it's most been the work of sick pranksters wishing to "be the Chupacabra" late at night. That, and that many farmers have livestock that dies on them for whatever reason and it turns into, "Oh no! Es el Chupacabra! Honey, get the news, El Chupacabra somehow managed to infect our chickens with a relatively common illness, thus killing them as opposed to it just being just a normal illness!"

In case you're wondering, all of us Puertoricans speak in over-elaborate sentences based in non-sequitor.

So Texas and Puerto Rico have Chupacabra, the West Coast has Bigfoot, New Jersey has the Jersey Devil, who else has local monsters?

So Texas and Puerto Rico have Chupacabra, the West Coast has Bigfoot, New Jersey has the Jersey Devil, who else has local monsters?
We have Ian Paisley.

in England we have panther sightings which is pretty crappy to say the least :(

'Bout time.
Had there been a "damn" in there I'd have lolled.

So Texas and Puerto Rico have Chupacabra, the West Coast has Bigfoot, New Jersey has the Jersey Devil, who else has local monsters?

We have Tammy Faye Baker.

We have Tammy Faye Baker.
I've seen her lately on TV. She is truly frightening.

I've seen her lately on TV. She is truly frightening.
And this guy isn't?

http://www.sluggerotoole.com/images/ian_p.jpg

Again this come up. When will you people open your eyes and realise that the Mighty Goat Sucker is real? How many more goats must be sucked?

Again this come up. When will you people open your eyes and realise that the Mighty Goat Sucker is real? How many more goats must be sucked?
But if the goat-sucker has been killed the goats must be very upset.

That thing's gotta be a dog...

Damn-
*Update - Mr.Harvey has now spoken to Wildlife Division Director Mike Berger about the animal trapped in Coleman. Berger, who contacted the regional director in West Texas, Ruben Cantu, for more information, reported that they confirmed that "the 'chupacabra' is a Mexican folk tale, not a real beast." From the photos they've seen of the Coleman animal, they feel that it may be a coyote. According to Mr.Harvey, he hasn't found any evidence that this animal was ever handed over to The Texas Parks ans Wildlife Department. "I don't think anyone with our agency has it or knows who has it....it's possible that no one ever had this animal in custody...possibly someone took a photo of a dead coyote or other animal, doctored it a little and started spreading this hoax."

It seems only Mr.Laglow and his chickens know for sure.
Source (http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/08/25/234533.php)
Granted, thats from a blog, but still...

It's quite obviously a government coverup

It's a tall rat. Probably some mutant from one of the old atomic test-sites. No doubt would be good at intimidating the other rats.

Damn, I can just see the EPA charging the guy with killing an endangered species.