Posted on 04/02/2014 9:23:39 PM PDT by Rebelbase
RATCLIFFE, Texas — Deep in the back woods of South Texas, you never know what might be lurking around the corner, or in your tree.
“He saw this strange animal up here eating corn,” Jackie Stock said.
In Ratcliffe, a small town in DeWitt County, residents are certain they've found the mythical, despicable chupacabra, and this time, it's alive.
Ratcliffe Resident Jackie Stock said her husband caught the creature Sunday night.
“He called me to come and look, and I said ‘Bubba that looks like a baby chupacabra,’” Stock said.
With its hairless back, large claws, countless teeth and ferocious growl, many would say this animal fits the bill.
“I hunted coons for 20 years with dogs and I ain’t ever seen anything that looks like that right there,” Ratcliffe resident Arlen Parma said.
Parma said one of the biggest signs it's not a raccoon is its growl.
“A coon doesn’t make that noise, or a possum. What makes that noise? I guess a chupacabra does,” Parma said.
Most people in DeWitt County are convinced this is the elusive chupacabra, but what do wildlife experts have to say?
“The animal in the cage as best I can tell from the view is some sort of a small canine,” Brent Ortego, Wildlife Diversity Biologist with Texas Parks and Wildlife, said.
Ortego said a canine can include a coyote, dog, or even a fox. He said the animal most likely has mange which has caused it to lose its hair. But as for a chupacabra, he thinks otherwise.
“It's never been proven to be a unique species. It was always something out there that allegedly was said to cause harm to people or livestock,” Ortego said.
Chupacabra or not, right now this little guy is staying at the Stock household, living off a diet of cat food and corn, at least until someone can find out what it really is.
“We were just trying to figure out what it is because we've never seen anything like it before,” Stock said.
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Did you see the paws clinging to the wires on the top of the cage in one photo. They seemed much longer than a dogs or a cats. The hair was really weird too. Any ideas anyone?
Coyote with mange....
hairless racoon
It looks like a mangy (and very lost) wallaby. I’d name it Rocko.
You’re right. I was getting exited too.
Bald opossum with a high blood pressure and hemorrhoids?
Obama’s son. Really, if you look at photo #13, there is only two critters that it could be- a coon, or a possum (which I doubt) with mange. Canines don’t have paws like photo #13.
Perhaps that’s all a chupababra ever was.
Just think. What kind of legend would Davy Crockett be if his hat had been made from a hairless raccoon?
He called me to come and look, and I said ‘Bubba that looks like a baby chupacabra,’” Stock said.
“Bubba”?
As in Bubba Hotep?
As in they also found Elvis ?
Double April fools me thinks
That was a mangy coyote.
First of all, why is this on an Arizona website? Texas should be ashamed.
Second, if they want to find out if it’s a coon, sick some coon hounds on him. If they attack, it’s a coon. If they run like hell there’s not tellin’ what it is. KNOCK HIM OUT, JOHN!
I’ve been looking at some other photos of hairless raccoons, and they do resemble this one.
Cryptid Ping
I went to the site and looked at the video.
My unprofessional opinion - It’s definitely NOT a mangy dog.
It eats with its “hands.”
Yep - this is the fuzzy-wuzzy lost his hair version of a plain ol raccoon.
The haunches are not known in any American species. The teeth are coyoteish. The hands are racoonish. This is a juvenile.
Unwrapping this DNA is going to be a delight.
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