Chupacabras

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When I lived in the white mountains (AZ) we had some thing running around.....maybe it was this........?

I heard allot of myths while I was out there.......saw some tracks I could not totally identify almost like a mix between a bear and dog track, but it was either muddy or sandy.....so its hard with tracks sometimes......it had a weird loud growl, came out at night.....and I know that it scared all the mule dear away so we never got any....and we went hungry.

It seemed heavier than 40lbs though whatever it was out there every night.....

Phylis Canion holds a photo of what she is calling a Chupacabra in Cuero, Texas, Friday, Aug. 31, 2007. She found the strange looking animal dead outside her ranch and thinks it is responsible for killing many of her chickens. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) The Associated Press By ELIZABETH WHITE Associated Press Writer

CUERO, Texas Sep 1, 2007 (AP)

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Share Phylis Canion lived in Africa for four years. She's been a hunter all her life and has the mounted heads of a zebra and other exotic animals in her house to prove it. But the roadkill she found last month outside her ranch was a new one even for her, worth putting in a freezer hidden from curious onlookers: Canion believes she may have the head of the mythical, bloodsucking chupacabra.

"It is one ugly creature," Canion said, holding the head of the mammal, which has big ears, large fanged teeth and grayish-blue, mostly hairless skin.

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Elizabeth White

Canion and some of her neighbors discovered the 40-pound bodies of three of the animals over four days in July outside her ranch in Cuero, 80 miles southeast of San Antonio. Canion said she saved the head of the one she found so she can get to get to the bottom of its ancestry through DNA testing and then mount it for posterity.

She suspects, as have many rural denizens over the years, that a chupacabra may have killed as many as 26 of her chickens in the past couple of years.

"I've seen a lot of nasty stuff. I've never seen anything like this," she said.

What tipped Canion to the possibility that this was no ugly coyote, but perhaps the vampire-like beast, is that the chickens weren't eaten or carried off all the blood was drained from them, she said.

Chupacabra means "goat sucker" in Spanish, and it is said to have originated in Latin America, specifically Puerto Rico and Mexico.

Canion thinks recent heavy rains ran them right out of their dens.

"I think it could have wolf in it," Canion said. "It has to be a cross between two or three different things."

She said the finding has captured the imagination of locals, just like purported sightings of Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster have elsewhere.

But what folks are calling a chupacabra is probably just a strange breed of dog, said veterinarian Travis Schaar of the Main Street Animal Hospital in nearby Victoria.

"I'm not going to tell you that's not a chupacabra. I just think in my opinion a chupacabra is a dog," said Schaar, who has seen Canion's find.

The "chupacabras" could have all been part of a mutated litter of dogs, or they may be a new kind of mutt, he said.

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As for the bloodsucking, Schaar said that this particular canine may simply have a preference for blood, letting its prey bleed out and licking it up.

Chupacabra or not, the discovery has spawned a local and international craze. Canion has started selling T-shirts that read: "2007, The Summer of the Chupacabra, Cuero, Texas," accompanied by a caricature of the creature. The $5 shirts have gone all over the world, including Japan, Australia and Brunei. Schaar also said he has one.

"If everyone has a fun time with it, we'll keep doing it," she said. "It's good for Cuero."

http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3548226

[Steven]

Dude this is so funny, because back in Cali we had a running joke at the office that when anythign fucked up ... we balmed it on chupacabra. Lola and I even wanted to come up with a chupacabra hot sauce...the catch phrase: "Chupacabra....it'll gitcha..."

[Head Wreck]

goatsucker sauce?

isnt that illegal in most civilised states?

[Homicidalheathen]

I can't wait to see how this turns out. It made major news so I am hoping there is a follow up with some scientest exclaiming;

ureka! We have a new life form!

[Kit Kat P]

goatsucker sauce?

isnt that illegal in most civilised states?

not if you patent it

[Homicidalheathen]

It could be the dgn mascot lol