Chupacabra found?

[Soundguy]

DNA test time!

 

[Panik]

A Coati in Texas? Haven't heard of that before, but anything is possible. I know they are found in New Mexico. Then there is the variety in Brazil, and other parts of South America, but it would take a hike for one of them to get here!

Just about anything is possible with exotics. Enough people keep exotic pets, including coati, that it's fairly common to have such animals escape or be turned loose. In this case though I really do think it is a raccoon with a form of mange, or less likely alopecia.

Edit: FYI apparently coati are native to Texas - http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu/tmot1/nasunari.htm. Although I still think the animal in ques. is a raccoon.

 

[texasjohn]

original link post 1 now gone....

 

[bcp]

Dead.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...uthanize-alleged-chupacabra-article-1.1745980

 

[RobertBrown]

"Ain't nothin but a bald azz coon"

Cleatus T. Ringhaver...texan

 

[drizler]

The wildlife "expert" that says that is a canine is what is know in scientific terms as a "moron".
I don't know what that thing is, but I sure know it is no canine. Nor is it a feline. It is something else.

No dog or cat eats with it's hands. It sits and moves around like a hairless raccoon.

 

[texasjohn]

thanks, bcp, for the new link.

I watched video. Motion showed many coon like features, long tail, clever hands.... now gone...kinda like a yeti...

 

[k0ua]

No dog or cat eats with it's hands. It sits and moves around like a hairless raccoon.

Maybe it is a raccoon without hair. The hands look right, and the tail is the right length. I suppose the ears could look longer because there is no fur around them.. so yeah raccoon could be a likely candidate. If that is a raccoon... that is one sorry looking raccoon.

 

[k0ua]

Here is how we can find out for sure:
I have quite a few raccoon's around here. Who wants to come over and help hold one down while I shave it?:laughing:
Be sure to bring some good thick gloves.:rotfl:

 

[Ken]

Here is how we can find out for sure:
I have quite a few raccoon's around here. Who wants to come over and help hold one down while I shave it?:laughing:
Be sure to bring some good thick gloves.:rotfl:

Could it be one of those Naugahides there rare .
Last heard of were placed at a farm/ranch in N.Wisconsin.
ken