Has a mythical beast turned up in Texas?

[rodeodance]

Has a mythical beast turned up in Texas?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070901/ap_on_fe_st/mythical_chupacabra;_ylt=Ak9EHJg98IFYzLO6wTgrCd.s0NUE

By ELIZABETH WHITE, Associated Press Writer 26 minutes ago

CUERO, Texas - Phylis Canion lived in Africa for four years. She's been a hunter all her life and has the mounted heads of a zebra and other exotic animals in her house to prove it. But the roadkill she found last month outside her ranch was a new one even for her, worth putting in a freezer hidden from curious onlookers: Canion believes she may have the head of the mythical, bloodsucking chupacabra.

"It is one ugly creature," Canion said, holding the head of the mammal, which has big ears, large fanged teeth and grayish-blue, mostly hairless skin.

Canion and some of her neighbors discovered the 40-pound bodies of three of the animals over four days in July outside her ranch in Cuero, 80 miles southeast of San Antonio. Canion said she saved the head of the one she found so she can get to get to the bottom of its ancestry through DNA testing and then mount it for posterity.

She suspects, as have many rural denizens over the years, that a chupacabra may have killed as many as 26 of her chickens in the past couple of years.

[rodeodance]

1. She is one stupid women-----as she should have turned it over to a vet or a

vet school to study. instead she keeps the head for herself.




....Canion and some of her neighbors discovered the 40-pound bodies of three of the animals over four days in July outside her ranch in Cuero, 80 miles southeast of San Antonio. Canion said she saved the head of the one she found so she can get to get to the bottom of its ancestry through DNA testing and then mount it for posterity.

[Olney Blue]

2. Perhaps.

[tanyev]

3. Beat me to it!

Rove plans to return home to Hill Country
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=1712653

[Yael]

4. Well, the last we heard from Oscar he was Greyhounding toward the Mexican border

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

Old, I know -- but just found it linked on another thread today and laughed until I cried.

:rofl:

[undeterred]

5. Maybe its First Wife Laura's dead boyfriend?

[FloridaJudy]

6. Someone found a compassionate conservative? n/t

[tularetom]

7. A few years ago something killed one of our lambs

and I knew it wasn't a coyote because it had been dragged almost a mile and then just shredded. When I spoke to the game warden he said it was probably a mountain lion.

But I betcha it was a chupacabra.

[Bitwit1234]

8. At first I thought she had bush, oops maybe she does.

[Golden Raisin]

9. No. It moved from Texas

to the Oval Office where it's been sucking the blood out of this country for the last 6 years.

[L. Coyote]

10. That's why I clicked on this thread. I was thinking a whole herd of them!

The Texas Rangers and Pioneers! :rofl:

[TahitiNut]

11. Looks like the Texas GOP mascot

[LeftyMom]

13. my money's on a coydog with mange. nt

[Critters2]

17. I was thinking a domestic dog, but definitely mange. nt

[stop the bleeding]

14. those are some CRAZY picts

very interesting.

[Ghost in the Machine]

16. Looks like some kind of feral pig/dog crossbreed... n/t

[LeftCoast]

22. That is SO sad. That is almost certainly a dog breed known as Xoloitzcuintli

They're more commonly known as a "Mexican Hairless".

I have one and they're wonderful dogs. This just makes me ill.

Here's a link to one 'blog' about the dogs: http://www.xolo.com/dogblog/

[Prophet 451]

12. Fascinating

It's clearly canine but it doesn't look like any kind of canine I've seen. Perhaps we have a new species. Should be interesting for cryptozoologists anyway.

[Critters2]

15. Looks like a small dog with bad mange

I'd be willing to bet that's what it is.

[LeftyMom]

18. One of these "chupacabra" bodies makes the news every year or three

It's always a mangy canid of some sort.

[Prophet 451]

19. Ears look wrong

Admittedly, it's not the greatest photo but the ears look wrong and the lower jaw looks too narrow.

[FooFootheSnoo]

20. I read about this on another website

one of the poster's mentioned the Elmendorf Beast. Apparently, something like this has been seen before. Poor little thing. He's ugly, but he can't help it.

Here's some stuff about the "Elmendorf Beast"

http://channels.isp.netscape.com/atplay/package.jsp?name=atplay/pm/chupacabra

[sanguinivorous]

21. It's just a funky-looking dog. (nm)

...

[Swamp Rat]

23. Texas is gettin' real weird these days...

:yoiks: ... the Chupadubya's been lurkin' around.