BS: Chupacabra found?

Subject: BS: Chupacabra found?
From: Alice
Date: 03 Sep 09 - 01:01 PM

Interesting video of an animal carcass that looks like the mythical chupacabra. I'm waiting to hear what the DNA report says.
VIDEO
VIDEO cnn news

Subject: RE: BS: Chupacabra found?
From: Alice
Date: 03 Sep 09 - 01:06 PM

Link to PRINT article, L.A.Times
snip
"...Two universities might help identify exactly what Ayer has. He said he has received requests from the University of Texas and UC Davis to provide tissue samples for their ongoing research."continued.... Is That A Chupacabra?

Subject: RE: BS: Chupacabra found?
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Sep 09 - 01:43 PM

Interesting. I'll wait for the DNA studies.

Right now I'd guess an overgrown feral chihuahua, though.

Subject: RE: BS: Chupacabra found?
From: Amos
Date: 03 Sep 09 - 01:44 PM

Looks like a dingo or something kin to it.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Chupacabra found?
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Sep 09 - 02:04 PM

Looks to me like a hairless dog:



http://banderasnews.com/0706/nr-xolodogs.htm

Subject: RE: BS: Chupacabra found?
From: Dave Swan
Date: 03 Sep 09 - 02:07 PM

Mange E. Coyote

Subject: RE: BS: Chupacabra found?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Sep 09 - 02:23 PM

Wile Y. Coyote.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Chupacabra found?
From: Alice
Date: 03 Sep 09 - 02:49 PM

Mexican Hairless Super Coyote

Subject: RE: BS: Chupacabra found?
From: gnu
Date: 03 Sep 09 - 03:16 PM

Nast E. Critter.

Subject: RE: BS: Chupacabra found?
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Sep 09 - 04:46 PM

or pathetic underfed puppy. Don't you eat chicken, gnu????

Subject: RE: BS: Chupacabra found?
From: GUEST,Don Meixner
Date: 03 Sep 09 - 06:00 PM

Looks like the same film that hit the internet a few years ago. Turned out to be an emaciated dog with the hair singed off.

Now let me tell you about the Big Foot I saw in Central New York last week.....

Don

Subject: RE: BS: Chupacabra found?
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Sep 09 - 06:58 PM

Chupacabra translated is goat sucker.

for the right price you could hire any number of goat suckers.

Look at them goat suckers ain't they neat
sittin there suckin that green goaty meat
Look at them goat suckers ain;t they smart
suckin them goats can sure make you

Subject: RE: BS: Chupacabra found?
From: kendall
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 09:11 AM

Dave Swan is right LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Chupacabra found?
From: open mike
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 09:23 AM

Doberman?

previous story here..woman finds beast in 2007 in texas .
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295481,00.html

Subject: RE: BS: Chupacabra found?
From: Alice
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 11:32 AM

"Some have speculated it could be a breed of dog called the Xoloitzcuintle, also known as a Xolo.

"It's been around for about 3,000 years in Mexico," said Rhett Rushing, a folklorist at the Institute of Texan Cultures in San Antonio.

The Xolo is a type of dog native to Mexico and Central America, and was considered a sacred dog in the Aztec culture. It bears similar resemblance to the gray hairless animal that is turning up all over South Texas.

"It was bred by the Aztecs both as a food source and a companion guardian, and it also had healing powers," said Rushing. the rest of the article here CLICK

Subject: RE: BS: Chupacabra found?
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 11:37 AM

If there is ONE Chupacabra/Bigfoot/etc., there must be at least TWO....and logic says there must be more for a breeding population. In these times the probability of ANY significant number of such creatures existing without being seen, photographed and captured/shot regularly is...ummm..low.

Subject: RE: BS: Chupacabra found?
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 02:17 PM

(I think it was a dog which had been shaved with Occam's Razor...☺)

Subject: RE: BS: Chupacabra found?
From: Alice
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 04:17 PM

I bet the Xolo would like Oxo.

Subject: RE: BS: Chupacabra found?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 04:45 PM

Have you ever seen a dog with demodectic mange? That's the non-spreading one that is a genetic problem in the dog. Looks awful. Looks like this poor dog they've decided is this mythic chupacabra. Has a vet looked at it?

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Chupacabra found?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 04:46 PM

Don't you just love those Texans? Got a mystery to solve? Put out poison, ask questions later. . .

Subject: RE: BS: Chupacabra found?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 05:21 PM

I just read a little more on this, on links above:

Jerry Ayer, owner of the Blanco Taxidermy School, isn't so sure that what he has really is what everyone hopes he has. But as the man who is in the process of stuffing the beast, he does know he's working on something unique.

"To be honest, I don't know what it is. I'd probably say it's a freak-of-nature coyote, or a hybrid breed with a genetic mutation," the soft-spoken Ayer said.

Ayer says he stuffs about 15 to 20 coyotes a year, and this is no coyote. "The footpads are different. They're rather bulbous. And this has longer legs by a few inches."

You know darned well that it this was a true biological mystery someone scientific would be looking at it. Instead, a good ol' boy taxidermist is tearing it to pieces, altering the consistency of the skin, and stuffing it.

It's as bogus as the finger in the chili at Wendy's and the rat in the Coke bottle.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Chupacabra found?
From: Alice
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 05:38 PM

SRS, read my first posts. Two university labs are going to look into it... tissue samples, DNA testing.

Subject: RE: BS: Chupacabra found?
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 05:52 PM

"...the rat in the Coke bottle."

umm..well, when I first worked in a grocery store about 1956, someone brought back an UNOPENED 12oz. Pepsi with a mouse in the bottom. Those were the days of returnable bottles, which were washed & reused. I should have kept it....

Subject: RE: BS: Chupacabra found?
From: Sorcha
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 06:14 PM

I have my doubts.

Subject: RE: BS: Chupacabra found?
From: Amergin
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 06:34 PM

Whoever thought to give this thing publicity ought to be fired....looks just like the xolo/chupacabras that were "found" a couple of years ago....

Subject: RE: BS: Chupacabra found?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 09:13 PM

Well, I did learn about the Xolo via Alice and others, so something came of the publicity.

Subject: RE: BS: Chupacabra found?
From: Alice
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 09:27 PM

There are lost of Xolo dog images on the internet. They look like the animal the taxidermist has.

Subject: RE: BS: Chupacabra found?
From: Alice
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 09:37 PM

Xolos are living heating pads (hot water bottles) for pain relief.

Xolos for pain

Subject: RE: BS: Chupacabra found?
From: GUEST,mike
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 05:47 PM

i think it is real because look at google they have things all over the world and though people dont wont to beleave in it i think it exist.also because we have not found every thing on this planet think about it for a sec. we have found squids that are as big as wales. we have know idea about it.

Subject: RE: BS: Chupacabra found?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 15 Oct 09 - 03:47 PM

we have found squids that are as big as wales.

Twenty thousand square kilometres? Somehow I doubt that...