"You can't take the sky from me."

"You can't take the sky from me."

Good interesting post. It looks more like my friend Marias chiuaua cross dog than a Chupacabra to me, but still interesting. The teeth look like its a mature animal. I don't believe the undercoat or skin on a coyote is quite this color through and through though. Hmm? I read the ladys interview from the 7C, and at least, there's some excitement down Cuero way other than horned toads and snakes. Keep us up on anything with this story if you can.

A Family that Hunts together, stays together. (unless they leave me home!)

While working for a branch of the USDA called Wildlife Services as a biologist another "Chupacabra" was found by an eight year old boy who shot it while squirrel hunting near Tyler, TX.  I was working the area at the time and everywhere I went people kept asking me about the "chupacabra" they saw on the local news.  When I tried to explain that these things usually turn out to be a coyote with mange they always would say "Well I've seen mange before and this wasn't mange."  People fail to realize that rare, extreme cases of mange can cause major deformities to the skin, drastically altering an animals appearance.

Whatever it is, I can honestly say that nasty!

Brian M Thomas Yard of Dreams Landscape Co.

What Brian43 said!

"Life's too short to hunt with a beardless dog . . ."

This thing reminds me of one of my friend's cats. Interesting/Eww.

That just not right.

Guns don't kill people....Its those pesky little bullets making lots of holes that all the blood leaks out of.

Whoa Nelly, that is one ugly animal!!! So is it truly a coyote?

I have seen photos of several of these most turned out to be foxes or coyotes that were suffering from severe mange or simple had lost all their hair for some reason. Pretty ugly like those dogs that were in the ugliest dog contests.

Here's a photo of a coyote with mange from Montana. Bad photo but looks a lot like the photos above.

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Definately coyote with mange.

Keep yer eyes peeled!

They are some ugly animals! 

 Found in Cuero, hmmm.............cuero mean skin, leather or hide in Spanish.

Well, I just couldn't resist emailing Linda Moulton Howe about the groups reaction to the pictures and story of the Cuera, Texas "Hairless Creature." She appears to agree with the coyote mange theory... her email response is below:

Hi, Chris,

Yes, I think the Cuero, Texas, animals are coyotes with severe mange and I'm doing an Earthfiles this coming week (on CoastToCoast Am with George Noory) with a mange expert about them.

However, mange does not clearly explain the Elmendorf or Pollok animals of 2004 and 2005.

Sincerely,

Linda Moulton Howe
Reporter and Editor
www.Earthfiles.com
and Investigative Reporter
Premiere Radio Networks;
Dreamland Online

e-mail: earthfiles@earthfiles.com

So there you go...but the legend lives on! :)

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And now nearly a month later...FoxNews has picked up the story CLICK HERE to read it.

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Hairless dog...I've seen one in East Dallas running the streets.

"It takes 32 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, but only 3 for a proper trigger pull."

I have killed two coyotes that looked like this in years past,but theywere bigger than the one in the picture.

Adolfo, do you have any photos of the coyotes you killed that you could post?

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In reference to Fox News, they regularly are biased on most issues.  Probably on time mostly but doing a real injustice with it's reporting.   And people believe the reporting comments.   Can't imagine anyone using Fox as a legitimate news source.  Maybe for entertainment purposes if you need to look at reporting and how funny and biased it can be.

Well, Larry, you spoke too soon with your little Foxnews comment.  Here's some Chupcabra video from a CNN broadcast.  They report, You Decide.

CLICK HERE to view the Cuero, Texas Police Dashcam video of the CNN Chupacabra report.

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Larry,

Are you telling me that CBS, NBC, ABC, and CNN aren't biased?  If that's what you think, time to take those rose-colored glasses off!

CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT THIS IS

I dont know what it is but lets chicken fry it and see how it taste's

It's a raccoon with mange.  Look at the hands and the tattered striped coloration on the tail.  While they look a lot different without any hair and the skin deformities caused by mange, that one's a no brainer.

Those animals have to be miserable.  I thought about Scabies as well as mange. If Mange feels as bad as Scabies, then it is horrible. I caught a batch of Scabies once while Bow-hunting antelope near Carlsbad, N.M. The little boogers set up housekeeping under my right arm-pit and it felt like a pin cushion for a while there.  Low and behold I caught up with them again the next spring while Turkey Hunting. Realized they were in the sleeping bag. LOL

Traditionalist

See at 29'', and the 5'41'' to 5'43''. Thats what I saw 5'43.

I've never seen racoons hop like kangaroos and run like hell with front feet together and back feet together in a gallop!

I think there are several types of animals being called "chupacabras". I saw 2 that moved like coyotes (heads low, eyes forward, sneaky), that had tan fur, eyes that reflected golden in spotlight, and long rear legs like a kangaroo.

Might be different mangy animals, but whats this? I saw 2 animals very much like this, and several other people have described the same thing.

The ones I saw seemed to have eyes that were directly forward and deep set, not on the side like prey animals.

dear hntr, my name is kelly and i love to hunt deer and i love the deer on your picture its bad ass

Looks like a dog to me

that thing is ugly!...it does kinda look like a dog, maybe a really burnt one or something

i lived in mission valley texas which is 10 miles from cuero i had seen one of them on my ranch and i can tell you this wasn't a coyote i saw the way it moved and what it sounded like and that is not a coyote. every night you would always hear wierd noises that always scared me and know i know what it was 

Whatever it is, if I see one its gonna die of lead poisoning.