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.

[xcamel]

2 tidbits, in case you think this is a bit wierd

Marsupial wolf (tasmanian)

Procoptodon, for example, is a 2.5 metre high creature which looks like a koala crossed with a kangaroo. Australian palaoentologists had several near complete skeletons to work from, preserved in caves during the late Pleistocene.

[evets]

Vey hugh.

[dbehsman]

I miss Art. Talk about bringing back memories!

[hispanarepublicana]

I think there should be amnesty for alien dogs who come here to kill farm animals that American dogs won't.

[leftcoaster]

Wasn't that the "Small Potatoes" espisode of X-Files?

[MeanWestTexan]

"I wonder why John Kerry would want to kill chickens?"

It's part of the voodoo love spell he uses to convince rich women to support him.

[sharktrager]

And then, after they had it in their shelter, they'd kill it.

[Alexander Rubin]

He haunts PETA's dreams. "Sam, Sam! Wherefor art thou, Sam? You dazzling handsome scamp..." Personally, I think Sam is El Chupacabra... ;)

[ol' hoghead]

A coyote with a bad case of mange.

[DumpsterDiver]

Ugly,

As ugly as this prize winner?

Sam...."World's Ugliest Dog" 2003, 2004, 2005!

Sam is a purebred Chinese Crested Hairless. He's almost 15 years old and was taken in as a rescue.

[hispanarepublicana]

Sam is a purebred

Uh, how many TOENAILS can be counted on this pooch, anyway? Maybe that should have said INbred.

[Alexander Rubin]

Got there first... Woot!

[Doctor Stochastic]

This one was caught last year.

[TheCrusader]

"Procoptodon, for example, is a 2.5 metre high creature which looks like a koala crossed with a kangaroo."

What about the plattapus?

[hispanarepublicana]

weird-goings-on-in-west-texas-ping
Come to think of it......Coleman is not that far from Abilene, which is not that far from Baird, Texas, either, which is where Bill Burkett of the Rathergate Memos is from; "chupacabra" is a Spanish word, and "Lucy Ramirez" is a Hispanic name......are we sure this "chupacabra" wasn't mocked up at Kinko's in Abilene?

[absolootezer0]

this is very old news. the thing was found july of '04, determined to be coyote with mange.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chupacabra

[Bacon Man]

Chupacabra, they're all over Mexico.

[hispanarepublicana]

No....this is a NEW coyote with Mange. I'm thinking that I'm glad I'm not a coyote with Mange. You're thinking of Elmendorf, Texas. This is Coleman, Texas. Happened this week.

[MamaTexan]

About a year ago, our neighborhood lost over 70 goats within a couple of weeks.

They each had a hole in their neck, and one on their hindquarters....nothing else.

And none of the neighborhood dogs made a sound.

[Calvin Locke]

Do you think he'll pull out that take-off of, dang, that dance craze song from the mid-1990s by that Brazilian duo?

The lyrics go something like "The buggy-eyed creature they call the chupacabra...Hey, chupacabra!....we did it,
for the money, and now we think it's all pretty funny!"

I think I recorded it of the old artbell.com. I'll have to look tonight and see if I have it handy.