STOP KILLING TEXAS BLUE DOGS!
“Farmer May Have Caught Legendary ‘Chupacabra’ - October 14, 2004 Pollok, Texas - What are the strange, unidentified grey-blue animals that people keep seeing ? and shooting ? in Texas? Back in May this year, Elmendorf, Texas farmer, Devin McAnally, shot an animal eating mulberries that he also thought was killing his chickens. Devin was amazed that his bullets did not cause bleeding on the strange, grey body.”
Really? A clearly canid-type animal was eating mulberries and it gets shot because it was assumed to be preying on chickens (though it clearly was seen eating mulberries). You know what they say about assumptions.
Here’s another bright set of genes for ya:
“A Texas teenager has shot a strange animal he believes may be a chupacabra.
Carter Pope, 13, said he woke up Sunday at his home in La Salle and saw a strange animal walking across his backyard.
“Something slowly came across and started shaking, slowly moving across,” Carter said. “It was gray, no hair at all. I thought that’s a chupacabra.”
Carter said he ran to his parents’ room to wake up his dad to come see what he had discovered.
“I thought I’m dreaming or this kid is crazy,” said Carter’s father, Will. “Probably a little bit of both.”
Will Pope said when he went outside with his son, he was amazed at the strange creature.
Carter said it was about 200 feet away when he fired three shots before the animal stopped moving.”
Here is part of an article from Texas Cryptid Hunter:
These odd looking creatures are being called “blue dogs” and, ever increasingly, “chupacabras”. The chupacabra, of course, is a cryptid whose legend began in Latin America, specifically Puerto Rico. Also called the “goat sucker”, the chupacabra supposedly attacks small domestic animals like chickens, goats, and sheep. It is said it kills by making two small puncture wounds on its victim through which it drains its blood. Usually, no other marks are present on the body of the victim. Immigration has brought the legend of the chupacabra to America.
It seems any hairless animal that is captured or killed is being categorized as a chupacabra these days.
Strangely, the original descriptions of the chupacabra don’t resemble anything close to the strange creatures being seen now.
The chupacabra, according to early reports, was an upright alien looking creature with large glowing eyes, spikes protruding off its back, and large claws (see photo below).
The blue dogs of Texas, while certainly odd, look nothing like this. That has not stopped the media from dubbing these hairless creatures as chupacabras, however.
I have actually seen one of these blue dogs in the Sam Houston National Forest just outside of Conroe, Texas. A fellow TBRC member and I were returning from a camera maintenance trip in the Big Thicket National Preserve. Our route home took us through the heart of the SHNF. On a whim we decided to drive down a forest service road and take a look around.
We had not gone very far when we spotted an animal in the road. As we got closer we were surprised to see a hairless creature somewhere between 18 and 24 inches high. The animal trotted across the road and into the forest. Once in the brush the creature froze. It was difficult to see in the shadows but stayed still for about a minute affording us a good look. The animal had bluish grey skin that resembled that of an elephant. It also had a long whip-like tail. It was a truly strange site.
Strange as it was, however, the animal was clearly a canine of some sort. My guess is that it was a coyote with a terrible case of mange.
From Phantoms and Monsters:
These creatures are not ‘chupacabras’. Most likely, these ‘blue dogs’ are a hybrid species of Mexican wolf and another canine species. Ken Gerhard and Jon Downes have done extensive study and have written about this cryptid canine. I just wish people would stop killing the ‘blue dog’ just because it’s been given the ‘chupacabras’ moniker.
Full Article http://www.naturalplane.blogspot.com/2010/07/stop-killing-blue-dogs.html
