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2005-08-29 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by anonymous5089 2005-08-29 07:11|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 A rancher close to San Antonio killed one of them a couple of months ago, and the pic was in the paper. (sorry, on way to work, no time to search for link.) Basically, it turned out to be a very emaciated coyote with a really bad case of mange. Looked like an unearthly beast, with sharp teeth, blueish skin and no hair.
This looks like another one.

Posted by Sgt. Mom">Sgt. Mom 2005-08-29 08:08|| www.sgtstryker.com]">[www.sgtstryker.com] 2005-08-29 08:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Of course, noone was saying that was even what a chupacabra was supposed to look like until the first time someone caught or killed one of the coydogs (or whatever) with mange.

Every time they've found one of these hairless canid things over the past couple years it's turned out to be, well, a hairless canid with mange. Texas has a lot of suburban development poking into formerly rural land, and a lot of interspersed rural and developed land. Coyotes and Coyote/dog hybrids tend to be the apex predator (besides man) in this habitat, and the population density is high enough that mange becomes common.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-08-29 08:57|| 2005-08-29 08:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Why all this becomes interpreted as being "the infamous chupacabra," I don't know.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-08-29 09:02|| 2005-08-29 09:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Muldur?

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-08-29 10:40|| 2005-08-29 10:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Was this thing pulled off Cindy Sheehan's neck? Did it have "move on" and "DNC" tatooed on it's butt? The blood sucking Chupacabra is known to be descended from modern left wing political operatives.

Posted by MunkarKat 2005-08-29 11:01|| 2005-08-29 11:01|| Front Page Top

#6 This horrid beast looks like the world's ugliest dog pictured here:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/uglydog.asp

Enjoy!

EP

Posted by ElvisHasLeftTheBuilding 2005-08-29 13:46|| 2005-08-29 13:46|| Front Page Top

#7 I call BS on this.
From a top-secret source housed beneath the Denver airport, I present this Rantburg World Exclusive, the REAL chupacabra, along with positive proof of the US military connection alleged by many conspiracy theorists:

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-08-29 19:38|| 2005-08-29 19:38|| Front Page Top

#8 An earlier effort didn't work out so well:

It is a fine pet though. Gender is indeterminate because a lab-tech lost 3 fingers trying to find out.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-08-29 19:43|| 2005-08-29 19:43|| Front Page Top

#9 Gender is indeterminate because a lab-tech lost 3 fingers trying to find out

gotta try the right foreplay...did the tech bring a dead rat?

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