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Yet another Chupacabra candidate (alive!)

Psi Baba

Homo Skepticalis
Psi Baba
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It does appear to move like a raccoon, and, (and this is all from first-hand experience, having owned a raccoon - and, yes, I believe I could round up old family pictures as proof.) they do make that pig-grunting noise. It stood on its hind-legs and grasped with its fore-paws; wrapped its tail around itself as I have seen raccoons do. And while I have never, ever seen any animal with Mange that exstensive, I'm 99.99% convinced that this animal is nothing more than a mangy raccoon.
 
It's a raccoon and that guy from TPWD should be ashamed of himself if he was shown the same footage and called it "canine".
 
But, when it sprouts spines from its backbone, grows ridiculous canines, and actually beguins sucking on goats, then we'll all be proven wrong...
 
skullerello said:
It does appear to move like a raccoon, and, (and this is all from first-hand experience, having owned a raccoon - and, yes, I believe I could round up old family pictures as proof.) they do make that pig-grunting noise. It stood on its hind-legs and grasped with its fore-paws; wrapped its tail around itself as I have seen raccoons do. And while I have never, ever seen any animal with Mange that exstensive, I'm 99.99% convinced that this animal is nothing more than a mangy raccoon.
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We never "owned" raccoons but had a family that lived under the house and another under the cafe and I have spent countless hours with them. I agree with your assessment 100%.
 
Well, raccoons, like cats, take their human slaves at their own convience.
Cats are actually less subtle than raccoons. Cats will simply manipulate their "owners", ( 'cause we humans have been designed by cats genetically to suport their kind.)
While raccoons operate on the fringe -loathing/ pitiying humans; delighting, instead to humiliate our kind, thru' trickery, and orchestrated guerrilla tàctics to obtain what they want...- Their performances should garnish them Oscars instead of weenies.
They're much better montebanks than cats.

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LTC8K6 said:
Not sure why people don't recognize it, even in the hairless variety.
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Yup, those links are pretty conclusive - and it doesn't even have to be mangy to be hairless - although it looks mangy!
 
The story does have a dateline of April 1. But, then they also have a bloke talking about it being a mangy racoon, so I think it was a joke story that got cut from the Fool's Day run-down, then recut with the expert thrown in to legitimise the report.
 
As there appear to be several of these in captivity...breed'em! What would the offspring look like? The parents as a true mutation, or would the raccoon fur come back?
 
Certainly resembles a raccoon to me too. If you goggle hairless raccoon, you'll find a story about a little one called Gizmo who has alopecia for no reason. I can't post the link unfortunately as I'm under the recommended 15 posts but it definitely looks like the same.

As for the issue of the strange skin, if it's sarcoptic mange it would explain the slightly scaly appearance. Poor thing just needs medication, not ignorance.
 
Wildlife officials need to make these folks set it loose. You can't, in most places, just take a wild animal in. The guy who says it's a canine is an idiot. This animal eats by holding food in its hands/front paws and sitting partially upright - like a raccoon, as noted above. And if 'Bubba' has never heard a raccoon growl like that, he hasn't been around them as much as he claims.
 
"Skeptical Inquirer" shows one of these things in a 1950 newspaper.
Looks just like those caught today.
They have to be around, just catch a few and finger out what they are.
 
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