A listener writes “Hi Wes, I just caught up to the podcast listening to Denise in Texas around the Lone Star Trail and I started hearing her description of the weird canine that she observed.
About 8 years ago when I was a police officer in Central Alabama my animal control officer called me to the scene of a resident that had taken a picture of an odd purplish dog that “loped” like a deer across his yard.
It is exactly what she described and I believe I still have that photo on an external hard drive at home. As soon as I get home this evening I will do my best to locate that and send you a picture of it. Of course my first thought was the creature that people have been calling a chupacabra that has been spotted in South West Texas around the Border towns.”
Steven B
Wondering if this is the same kind of animal as she saw:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_PgzfK9n3M
Denise F
It looked a bit like Phyllis Canion’s in Cuero, Tx. except that the one that kept coming around our house looked more deer-like and had large rounded ears similar to an African wild dog.
Hope you can find that pic, would love to see it.
Bal G
Man, is that a real picture? That thing’s eyes are aqua blue! What is that thing?
John M
I think that’s a weird dog
Ken A
I saw a show about this once and they DNA tested a dead one that looked like the canine in the pic. It turned out to be a coyote-dog hybrid with mange or a similar skin ailment.
Steven B
I am always leery of “DNA Testing” results depending on *who* does the testing.
As a test of integrity, “Animal X” sent tiger dung to a Wildlife Service in Australia. It came back as “domestic dog”.
Daniel E
Well there you have it. The dr. , has one that’s been done by ataxidermist. Now someone needs to get us the big guy. Yeah I know easier said than done. I’ve had two sightings of Sasquatch but I’m even starting to doubt myself because there is no physical specimen.
Matt W
Definately a bear
Steven B
LOL. I concur whole-heartedly!
mark g
Coyote/Mexican Wolf hybrid……Texas Blue Dog Claimed to be Chupacabra – Seeker
https://www.seeker.com/mysterious-texas-blue-dog-claimed-to-be-chupacabra-1767765510.html
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Denise F
Also I’d like to point out if dna test came back to say anything that was dead was suffering from mange that it was a visual guess, not anything a test said. Mange mites leave an animal directly after death when blood stops circulating so actually there isn’t a way to prove mange unless you get a skin scrape from a live specimen.
Kelly W
dogs with demodectic mange can not only look a odd color and hairless.. in severe cases they can even become disfigured due to swelling and infection .. I cant post a pic but can reroute you to one.. https://www.flickr.com/photos/olatheanimalhospital/sets/72157624976137563/
Darleen C
We had a similar “sighting” in Albuquerque – turned out to be a poor coyote with a severe case of mange.
I saw the poor animal myself less than 2 feet away from – not a Chupacabra, merely a suffering animal.
The videos of supposed Chupa’s look like the mange ridden coyote I observed.
Matt W
Possibly my ex wife…. analysis on going
SCOTT O
Mange ?
Coyote wolf hybrid?
You forgot man in a suit and swamp gas….
Molly B
Just saw your YouTube episode about the bikers that rode into Nourthern Idaho and saw a man in bib overalls , strange eyes, dirty blonde hair and unbelievable fast moving legs.
I totally believe he witnessed this event.
I live in N. Idaho, strange things occurs here.