Farmer May Have Caught Legendary 'Chupacabra'

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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.
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WOAI Channel 4 first broadcast the discovery of the Texas Chupacabra in July 2004. A rancher in Elmendorf shot and killed the creature after it attacked his chickens. The animal was hairless, except for a strip going down its back, with blue-grey skin, a long, rat-like tail, a serious overbite with large canine teeth, and appeared to be suffering from mange, a chronic skin disease of mammals cause by parasitic mites and characterized by skin lesions and loss of hair.
Several months later in October, another animal resembling the "Elmendorf Beast" was shot and killed and several sightings were reported in Lufkin stirring another wave of WOAI Channel 4 chupacabra broadcasts

Look's more like a dog to me, but standing 3ft tall. ya got me...
here's a link to the address channels.netscape.com/ns/atplay/package.jsp?name=atplay/pm/chupacabra

[|AoD|SiN]

Interesting to say the least, although I never heard a thing about this and I'm from Texas...It looks pretty sick whatever the hell it is.

[|AoD| Horvath]

dude I think I saw another pic of 'el chupacabra' a couple years ago... and it looked like it...
weird stuff

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Update - Mr.Harvey has now spoken to Wildlife Division Director Mike Berger about the animal trapped in Coleman. Berger, who contacted the regional director in West Texas, Ruben Cantu, for more information, reported that they confirmed that "the 'chupacabra' is a Mexican folk tale, not a real beast." From the photos they've seen of the Coleman animal, they feel that it may be a coyote. According to Mr.Harvey, he hasn't found any evidence that this animal was ever handed over to The Texas Parks ans Wildlife Department. "I don't think anyone with our agency has it or knows who has it....it's possible that no one ever had this animal in custody...possibly someone took a photo of a dead coyote or other animal, doctored it a little and started spreading this hoax."

It seems only Mr.Laglow and his chickens know for sure.

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I believe these chupacabra things exists, there were some cases about it down here too, involving chickens and other animals... who knows what lies out there?