Brothers Shoot Mystery Animal in East Texas

[emad]

Another strange dog-like creature has been found in the East Texas woods. The animal bares a striking resemblance to so-called Elmendorf Beast (aka Chupacabra).

Over the weekend, two brothers out hunting shot it and killed a mysterious animal with leathery skin, long teeth, and hind legs longer than its front legs.

Kolby Russell told KLTV in Tyler-Longview that this wasn’t his first run in with the creature. "I had chased it a couple times earlier, about a month ago, and my friends didn't believe me, I finally showed them and they did."

"I've seen mange before, and he has a body kind of built like a coyote -- but he's real skinny," says Kolby’s brother Coty told KLTV.

http://www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=5372682F-C7CB-4B42-A651-7354BD92A0F9

[Hugin]

1. Hmm...

It's not APRIL yet, dudes.

:eyes:

[Coventina]

2. *sigh* Why did they have to shoot it?

Stupid people.

[RebelOne]

6. Because they are dumb redneck hunters.

And hunters love the thrill of killing.

[Name removed]

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[barb162]

21. they gotta show what big studs they are?

I agree with you

[ET Awful]

3. WAIT! has anyone seen OSCAR lately?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=624815

:scared:

[Hugin]

5. Yikes!

Yeeeahhhh... Umm, where's Oscar?

Oscar?

OMG! They shot OSCAR!

:cry:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

8. You BASTARDS! -nt

[no name no slogan]

9. and he was DELICIOUS

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. That does it. I'm siccing PETA on you. -nt

[Strong Atheist]

18. People Eating Tasty Animals? nt.

[Midlodemocrat]

7. Oh, no. Please tell me it wasn't Oscar?

:cry:

[radwriter0555]

13. MY FIRST THOUGHT! Not OSCAR! Say it isn't so!!!!

I love him.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

35. Unshootable, inedible.

Impenetrable fur.
Tastes like bad okra cheese (don't ask).

[ET Awful]

36. That's a major relief.

I was worried about the poor thing. :P

[A-Schwarzenegger]

40. Not poor, rich.

Texas hold'em & insider trading.

[Mutley]

38. Phew!

Good to hear Oscar is okay. :D

[northofdenali]

46. Thank heaven (or wherever it is that Oscar hangs out)

The description didn't really match Oscar, but you know how reporters will lie............

[A-Schwarzenegger]

48. Fresno, at the moment.

3-day mystery convention, business with mixed pleasure.

[DS1]

4. Skinny coyote

Occam's Razor strikes again

[nickinSTL]

11. :shakes head:

ok, I get that these guys are morons, so it's like their code that they have to shoot anything that moves...

But...if they shot it, and it's so unusual...why are there no pictures?

Sounds like a bunch of crap to me. An underfed coyote gets shot, and they manufacture a 'news' story around it. :puke:

[Hugin]

12. I'm thinking it was a mange covered Jack-Rabbit.

Big teeth... Large hind legs... bald. It fits.

[nickinSTL]

15. possible

I'm sure it's NOT a chupacabra :eyes:

If it really was anything unusual...there would be pictures.

As it is, I'm sure the reason there aren't is because most people would look at it and know it's a typical animal...sick, maybe (mange, malnutrition, whatever) but nothing supernatural.

[snooper2]

19. There are pictures...

if you click on the link :) / video

[nickinSTL]

33. ah...I should have looked more carefully, I guess

I don't like clicking on video links, generally.

I feel weird about watching them at work :P

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

24. There was a picture in a related story link

Here

[nickinSTL]

34. thanks for posting that link

looks like a hairless deer to me :shrug:

Not impossible that it's just a hairless...some sort of animal.

After all, I suppose if someone ran into this in the wild:

there would probably be lots of wild speculation.

(this is one of the chimpanzees at the St. Louis Zoo, she has alopecia universalis, which causes hair loss, but is otherwise healthy.

[JVS]

14. If they shot it, why not put a picture with the story?

[Hugin]

16. "You eat what you kill."

Let's hope they live by this motto. ;)

[Robeson]

47. Yes, it would be nice to see if they put Chupacabra where....

...their mouth is....

[LaraMN]

17. That's no animal!

It's our Vice President!



Guess that's what he gets for sporting that decrepit snarl.:shrug:

[BikeWriter]

20. Sad news: Easter is canceled!

[pointblank]

23. LOL

That picture is disturbing...yet strangely hilarious.

[BikeWriter]

26. Yep, it is rather dramatic.

[pointblank]

22. Perhaps

it was the infamous wily "SNIPE"?





or the never before captured "LIGER"







Either way, they suck for shooting it. Someone ought to hunt their asses down.

[jobycom]

27. Actually, Ligers are real.

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

[pointblank]

29. HOLY CRAP

I had no idea.

How funny!

thanks

[jobycom]

32. That was my first reaction when I ran across the article, too! nt.

[BikeWriter]

37. That's one big kitty!

[AlienGirl]

45. There's a reason ligers are HUGE and tigons are smaller

Among big cats, growth-inhibiting genes are inherited from only one parent. In lions, the genes come from the mother; in tigers, the gene comes from the father. So a liger, who has a tiger mother and a lion father, doesn't inherit *any* gene that codes for "stop growing now" and gets huge (I'm pretty sure they continue to grow throughout life). In contrast, a tigon inherits two sets of growth-inhibiting genes, and stops growing early. Tigons are often smaller than either parent; ligers can be twice the size of tigers.

Tucker

[Mutley]

39. Whoa! Talk about a big cat!

[bertha katzenengel]

25. WHY, you idiot, did you have to kill it?

:banghead:

[RebelOne]

28. Because as I stated above they are dumb rednecks

and it gives them a thrill to kill.

[jobycom]

30. We must prove it exists by destroying it!!

Now you understand two things. One, why Texas voted for Bush, and two, why you should never, ever, stop in east Texas. To them, liberals are more rare than a Chupacabra! :rofl:

Yeah, I know there are some great liberals and even DUers in east Texas (the great Ralph Yarborough was born in Chandler).

[WeRQ4U]

31. "What the hell is that Bubba?......"I don't know Roscoe, better shoot it."

Morons. It's a fuckin' dog.

[KitchenWitch]

42. I hope it was not OSCAR!

:scared:

[A-Schwarzenegger]

43. It was

not. See above somewhere re: imperterbabel fur.

[KitchenWitch]

44. OMG I am so glad!

:hi:

[uppityperson]

53. I'm so glad it wasn't Oscar.

[AllegroRondo]

49. Does it taste like chicken?

[Aristus]

50. "Hey, Buford! Looky there! Whut in tarnation is that thang?"

"Don't know if'n Ah'm shore, Cooter, but Ah reckon we oughts ta shoot it!"

Ah! Texas hunters! Around them, EVERY animal's endangered!

[BikeWriter]

52. You don't have any stupid people in Washington, huh?

:shrug:

[Aristus]

55. No, they all moved to Texas!

:+

[BikeWriter]

56. ...and that's where we got all our crazies!

[Aristus]

57. LOL!

:rofl:

[Cathyclysmic]

51. If this was a Koontz story...

It's a genetically altered dog from a secret lab. That was a good book.

[RebelOne]

58. "The Watchers." Read that.

There was also a TV movie made from the book. Totally different. It did not follow the story line of the book at all.

[LT TX]

54. Strange...

I am from East Texas - yes there ARE liberals around here. I live about 30 miles from where this supposedly happened and I still can't believe how stupid some people can be.