As is and will always be the case with all things cryptid, Cryptomundo has already reported this story.
I gotta post about something on Fridays, though, and I think it’s safe to assume that there isn’t 100% overlap with our respective readerships.
So basically there’s a lady in Texas who has found herself a Chupacabras — as roadkill no less.
Being a smart one, she’s preserved the specimen and it can be viewed in its horrifying detail through a number of photos.
Take a look at the picture on the right here and you’ll see that there is little resemblance.
The creature that Ms. Canion has on her hands looks an awful lot like a dog to me (or at least some member of the family Canidae).
At any rate it seems to be an odd breed of dog. A lot of folks seem to be pointing towards the Mexican Hairless Dog as the culprit, but it is also pointed out that this breed of dog is exceptionally rare and wouldn’t be expected to just be found as roadkill in the middle of Texas.
Stranger things have happened.
It remains to be seen whether DNA testing will be done on the specimen. I hope that it is because it’s always nice to end these things definitively.
Whether it’s a new breed of dog or some coyote with mange, it’s just not freaky enough to be a Chupacabras in my opinion.
I’m gonna hold my breath for a sexier specimen somewhere down the road.
(Look Loren, I learned to spell it right!)
That was definitely a dog! You should check out http://tinwiki.org/wiki/Chupacabra for more info and links to some grainy photos.