Texas Farmer Claims He Caught Legendary 'Chupacabra'

NBC ^ | 8/25/05 | various

[BurbankKarl]

A Texas farmer may have found what some would call a "chupacabra," a legendary animal known for sucking the blood out of goats.

COLEMAN, Texas -- A Texas farmer may have found what some would call a "chupacabra," a legendary animal known for sucking the blood out of goats.

Reggie Lagow set a trap last week after a number of his chickens and turkeys were killed.

What he found in his trap was a mix between a hairless dog, a rat and a kangaroo.

The mystery animal has been sent to Texas Parks and Wildlife in hopes of determining what it is.

[OXENinFLA]

What he found in his trap was a mix between a hairless dog, a rat and a kangaroo.

That must have been one hell of a wild party!

[sonsofliberty2000]

Interesting, seriously.

[BurbankKarl]

art bell ping

[ncountylee]

Ugly, only PETA could love this.

[MaryFromMichigan]

Looks like a sick, mangy, deformed coyote to me...

[TheCrusader]

"What he found in his trap was a mix between a hairless dog, a rat and a kangaroo."

I wonder why John Kerry would want to kill chickens?

[clee1]

Just damn!

Maybe everthing you hear on Coast-to-Coast AM is not total bullsqueeze.

[Hold DiMayo]

Sam, the worlds ugliest dog, may have a chalanger next year.

[DM1]

"I wonder why John Kerry would want to kill chickens?"
he is just being a liberal - you know a blood sucker.

[FFIGHTER]

Fox with mange.

[keat]

Looks to me like a fox someone took sheep shears to.

[TheBigB]

Let's get a closer look, here...

[YouPosting2Me]

Cindy?

[Who dat?]

Art Bell was the greatest…

He was doing a chupacabra show once and a good-old-boy truck driver called in. Truck driver wanted to know where he could get one. He wanted it as a pet.

Art said, “Sir, a pet?”

“Six inch razor sharp fangs, blood red eyes?”

“Vicious temperament?

“You want it as a pet?”

Truck driver replies, “aw hell, that don’t scare me - that sounds a lot like my ex-wife.”

His show was the greatest. Not the show, necessarily, but the cast of characters it attracted at 2am.

[Chasaway]

"Frankenstein never scared me. But marsupials do; 'cuz they're fast!"

[rebelyeller]

a hairless dog, a rat and a kangaroo.

Add another 300lbs and you have Michael Moor.

[Mister Baredog]

Pass the tinfoil

[Double Tap]

Bingo.

This is not the first one either.

[muir_redwoods]

"What he found in his trap was a mix between a hairless dog, a rat and a kangaroo."

I assume they meant Looked like a mix between a hairless dog, a rat and a kangaroo. I don't think there would be a high success rate for marsupial/placental hybrids