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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Chupacabra speculation swirling in Texas
2010-07-14
Encounters with two hairless canines last week in northeast Hood County are stirring speculation that goat-sucking "chupacabras" have expanded into North Texas. Or, according to a more scientific explanation, mange is infecting coyotes, robbing them of their coats.
Let's not let science get in the way of a good goat-sucking story
Goat-sucking? I'm not sure what that means, but it doesn't sound like I want to.
There haven't been any local reports of livestock or pets being sucked dry - the modus operandi of the mythical beasts of south-of-the-border folklore. But a frail, hairless hound cornered on Wednesday, July 7, was no less startling to a code enforcement officer for the city of Cresson.

Johnny Collins said he was checking a city water well when he saw an emaciated, gray-skinned animal sneak into a barn at the adjacent Wake Sports Ranch, which operates a cable system that slings water skiers around a lake. Frank Hackett, Hood County animal control officer, entered the building with Collins to flush the creature out, but that's when it showed its teeth.

"It came toward me," Collins said. "It growled and leaped, kind of like a kangaroo rat, and when it came down, it went back toward Frank." So Hackett shot the animal, Collins said.
That's how we deal with mythical beasts in Texas
One Ranger, one mythical beast?
Jack Farr, owner of the ranch and neighboring MotorSport Ranch, said he had been seeing the animal for about three weeks on the property.
"One time I was on a four-wheeler and I came within 15-20 feet of it," he said. "I just kind of veered closer to it, but it trotted away. I've never seen anything like it."
"Hi, honey. How was your ride?"
"Pretty boring, just the usual blood sucking mythical beasts. What's for dinner?"
"Unicorn, hunter style. I know it's your favourite, so I sent little Suzie out in her prettiest white dress to fetch one."
Sightings of similar creatures have popped up in recent years at Edinburg along the border with Mexico and farther north near Cuero.

Collins, a member of the Texas State Guard, attended a drill a few days later and showed pictures of the animal to fellow troops from South Texas. "They'd take one look and say, 'Yep, you got a chupacabra there,'" Collins said.

Actually, said Sgt. Rosemary Moninger of Hood County animal control, the animal was a "coyote-canine hybrid," according to tests conducted at Texas A&M University.
Denier.
Probably doesn't believe it gets hot every summer, too.
Moninger took the carcass to veterinary experts there, who found skin mites still active on the animal a day after it was killed and put in a cooler, she said. Mites are known to cause mange, but this animal had even more problems. "It had extreme internal parasites," Moninger said, "and it was totally emaciated, just starving to death."
ALIEN PARASITES TURNING COYOTES INTO MUTANT BLOOD SUCKERS! NEWS AT 11!
Collins said he regrets that the animal was shot. "But, my gosh," he added, "the misery it was in ... it was just horrible."

A similar animal was killed two days later on the Hewitt family ranch near Acton, about eight miles southwest of Cresson. Joyce Hewitt, a 30-year resident, said coyotes are regularly spotted on her land, but like Farr, she had never seen one without hair -- at least not until recently. "We've been seeing it for a week or two," she said, "and then it started coming up to the house. Well, I had an outside kitty, and I didn't want him to get it."

So, on Friday, July 9, her son David shot the creature.
Texas ain't a healthy place to be a chupacabra.
But shortly after the kill, the Hewitts noticed that it wasn't completely bald. "He had some hair right down his spine," she said. "He had really sturdy paws and substantial claws."

The Hewitts didn't want to touch the creature, she said, but before animal control could have a look at it, "the vultures got it."
"Clean-up, aisle two"
Consequently, the carcass can't be tested to determine if it's a coyote -- or something else.

"David e-mailed a photo of it to a friend who hunts," she said. "He told David that's what it was - a chupacabra. "I don't know what it was or how far back they go. I just know that they are rare."
Seeing how Texans handle them, I guess we know why.
Yup.
Farr said he doesn't want his customers having contact with wild animals that have parasites. The MotorSports Ranch offers tracks where people can try out race cars and motorcycles.

Nevertheless, he said, there was something appealing about having a mysterious creature nearby. "I kind of miss him already," Farr said, "even though he was kind of mangy."
Posted by:Steve

#2  "I didn't want him to get it."

I think they got that wrong.

"I didn't want him to get et."

Posted by: Anonymoose   2010-07-14 22:39  

#1  The PERTS say andor infer that

* BIGFOOT/SASQUATCH > may be a surviving Specia of NORTH AMERICAN APE = LARGE SIMIANS.

ALSO POSSIBLE > A FAILED = "REGRESSED" SPECIA OF EARLY PROTO-HUMAN/HOMINID.

* DEPICTIONS OF THE AMERI-INDIAN "THUNDERBIRD" DEITY > allegedly closely resembles a PTERANODON = FLYING DINOSAUR.

* WISCONSIN = MIDWEST "WOLF/DOGMAN" > Among other hypothesae, IFF TRUE COULD A SURVIVING SPECIA OF NORTH AMERICAN KANGAROO OR RELATED.

NOTHING in Modern Science = DARWINISM says SURVIVING, POST-EVENT OR POST-EPOCH, ETC. NATURAL ORGANISMS CAN'T EVOLVE, OR OVER TIME/EOONS ADAPT CERTAIN TRAITS OR BEHAVIORS DIFFERENT FROM THEIR ORIGINAL OR LINIAL ANCESTORS AS DUE TO CHANGES IN THEIR RESIDENT ENVIRONMENT.

ME > IMO the CHUPACABRA = ALLEGED "NEW JERSEY DEVIL" may be some sort of GIANT BAT = BAT-ZILLA SPECIA SIMIL TO MODERN DAY BUT SMALLER "VAMPIRE BATS", + NOT to be confused wid the mythic
"MOTHMAN" whom I'm inclined to regard as some sort of DIVINE "ANGEL/ARCHANGEL" OF FATE-DESTINY WHOM MAY, OR MAY NOT BE, AKA "ANGEL OF DEATH" [nominally]???

One doesn't have to travel far to discover strange or mysterious Mysteries.

VEE MADONNA'S "LIKE A PRAYER" VIDEO > D *** NG IT, [Angel] GABRIEL, I NEVER KNEW YOU COULD LOOK THAT UGLY BEING THE "MOTHMAN"!
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-07-14 20:17  

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