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Mystery Creature Resembling Blood-Sucking ‘Chupacabra’ Appears on Woman’s Doorstep
Metro (U.K.) ^ | Sarah Hooper

Posted on 05/16/2025 8:52:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: Jonty30

Looks more like a mangy, diseased possum....


41 posted on 05/17/2025 4:52:16 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: nickcarraway

Another mangy raccoon?


42 posted on 05/17/2025 5:01:22 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: nickcarraway

Raccoon with mange, poor thing...


43 posted on 05/17/2025 5:03:30 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: nickcarraway; george76

A mangy thing lost a fight with ‘Big Mike’ in Pueblo.


44 posted on 05/17/2025 5:58:58 AM PDT by dynachrome (Auslander Raus!)
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To: Deaf Smith

“Coon.”

It’s sure bowed up like one but the face looked like a Badger to me.


45 posted on 05/17/2025 6:20:30 AM PDT by dljordan (The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
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To: Jonty30

Yep. That is a mangy racoon.


46 posted on 05/17/2025 6:33:14 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (Don't worry,pray.)
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To: nickcarraway

Mangy raccoon or ‘possum…?


47 posted on 05/17/2025 6:34:33 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Jonty30

Only with years and years of intense psychotherapy


48 posted on 05/17/2025 7:31:50 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: nickcarraway

RACCOON WITH MANGE.


49 posted on 05/17/2025 8:03:37 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( )
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To: nickcarraway

Mangy raccoon.


50 posted on 05/17/2025 8:29:28 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Jonty30

I rescued an abandoned mutt that looked like that. Now she is all healthy and a full body of shiny black hair. Yep. That’s just a malnourished I’ll dog.


51 posted on 05/17/2025 9:10:12 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: trebb

Not a possum, the tail is wrong.


52 posted on 05/17/2025 9:54:23 AM PDT by gleeaikin (Question Authority: report facts, and post their links)
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To: Salamander

Agree-a Raccoon with mange or some other skin condition. I guess some people don’t look around outdoors much-they’ve forgotten what ordinary wildlife looks like. Chupacabra-not...


53 posted on 05/17/2025 10:55:54 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"... )
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To: Texan5

Grew up a hillbilly.

Seen it all , generally know what I’m looking at.

As an example, a weird WTH critter showed up on my gate cam.

I was briefly baffled and googled “ Fisher” because that’s what came to mind

Lo and behold, they’re apparently common here but reclusive.

Cool.

( maybe I should have clutched my pearls and panicked instead?)

😜


54 posted on 05/19/2025 2:48:37 AM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRD)
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To: Texan5

Only been completely stumped once.

Weird flying furry/skinny naked-tailed thing caught on camera

NOT a bird.
NOT a flying squirrel.
About 10’ above the ground and moving fast.
Roughly 2’ in length.

No idea but it looks for all the world as if some yeeted a possum across my field.

Maybe they’re evolving.

😁


55 posted on 05/19/2025 2:56:03 AM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRD)
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To: Deaf Smith

Indeed it do

😜


56 posted on 05/19/2025 2:57:16 AM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRD)
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To: frank ballenger

Could be melanistic.

It happens in all critters


57 posted on 05/19/2025 2:59:07 AM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRD)
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To: SteveH

Vitiligo turns things white.

Melanism turns them dark and masks normal fur patterns


58 posted on 05/19/2025 3:01:47 AM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRD)
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To: Deaf Smith

Sorry for the bummer photo but…

https://kentuckyhunting.net/threads/black-melanistic-raccoon.81427/


59 posted on 05/19/2025 3:09:28 AM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRD)
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To: gundog

😢


60 posted on 05/19/2025 3:10:31 AM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRD)
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