Whatever it is, it’s ugly and on the prowl.
Recent sighting of the mythical Chupacabra, wandering the backyards of Texas, have led to at least one neighbor setting up traps in a desperate bid to prove its existence.
Photos taken in a Houston-area neighborhood over the weekend show a large, hairless canine with pointy ears and a long skinny tail trotting past lawn chairs.
It was allegedly the third sighting of the mysterious animal in the area in 11 days, KPRC reported.
“Big long pointy ears, long tail, had no skin, or no fur rather. But on its skin you could see splotches of grey,” said Scott Black, who snapped the photo.
An animal trapper who saw Black’s photo has since left his backyard with scattered cages.
The mysterious legend of a blood-sucking creature said to drink the blood of goats — earning its name of “the goat sucker” — has tingled spines for nearly 20 years after being first reported in Puerto Rico.
Claude Griffen from Gotcha Pest Control blames the recent uptick in continental U.S. sightings on the fact that many of the creatures are real animals that were born here. The exception, he said, is that they’ve been bred with other species.
Griffen believes people are deliberately breeding canines like coyotes and wolves with domesticated dogs and letting them loose so they can turn around and report them as Chupacabras.
“They are practicing the perfection of inbreeding,” Griffen told KPRC.
Griffen’s claims aren’t too far off from what other scientists have similarly found.
In 2008, a DNA analysis on an alleged Chupacabra specimen conducted by History Channel’s MonsterQuest found it to have a mix of chromosomes shared by coyotes and wolves of Mexico and Texas.
They determined it to be a hybrid species.
Also in 2011, a couple in Lake Jackson, Texas submitted a photo of a hairless dog seen in their backyard to the local newspaper, sending readers into a frenzy.
Jack Crabtree, a 24-year veteran of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, later argued the dog seen in the Lake Jackson couple’s photo as being a coyote “with a severe case of mange,” he told ABC.
He hoped to safely trap the animals so he could give it proper veterinary treatment.
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