Still Waters Posted August 23, 2012 #1 Share Posted August 23, 2012 Vets in Ukraine are struggling to identify a 'mutant' animal shot by hunters in a remote area of the former Soviet republic. Locals say it is a mystery 'Chupacabra' - allegedly sighted a few times in recent years - that preys on rabbits, goats and house animals. Grey in colour and with ‘fangs’ and a longish neck, it has shorter front legs, slightly resembling a kangaroo, while also showing a likeness to a dog and a fox, say those who have seen it. http://www.dailymail...ike-animal.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imaginarynumber1 Posted August 23, 2012 #2 Share Posted August 23, 2012 (edited) Nobody is "struggling to identify" this animal and it is not a "mutant" It's a red fox with mange. Compare: From the site *Snip* Red Fox with mange Clearly one is mange-ier than the other, but I think the point is clear. And "slightly resembling a kangaroo"? Seriously? Kangaroos are plantigrade locomotors and this fox clearly had legs for digitigrade locomotion. Come on.... Edited August 23, 2012 by Still Waters Removed copyrighted image 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Still Waters Posted August 23, 2012 Author #3 Share Posted August 23, 2012 Nobody is "struggling to identify" this animal and it is not a "mutant" It's a red fox with mange. They don't seem to think so - But I cannot identify what kind of animal it is. For example, its canine teeth are similar similar to a fox, but smaller in size - like a marten. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imaginarynumber1 Posted August 23, 2012 #4 Share Posted August 23, 2012 (edited) They don't seem to think so - But I cannot identify what kind of animal it is. For example, its canine teeth are similar similar to a fox, but smaller in size - like a marten. Sorry about the copyright infringement... wasn't paying attention.. Wait a minute.... there are pictures of two different animals on that page. The top one, the one I meant to post, is most clearly a mangy fox. The second could be a juvenile fox or a marten, but it's by no mean a mystery creature. The two different animal pics don't give me high hopes for the authenticity of the story, either. Edited August 23, 2012 by Imaginarynumber1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kazoo Posted August 23, 2012 #5 Share Posted August 23, 2012 (edited) A dog and a fox got it on? Their both Canids. I suppose its possible. Edited August 23, 2012 by Kazoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orcseeker Posted August 24, 2012 #6 Share Posted August 24, 2012 Back in the office, "Chuck the chupacubra word in so our page gets more hits!" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overdueleaf Posted August 24, 2012 #7 Share Posted August 24, 2012 remember seeing the first picture somewhere before.. and if i recall correctly, it was of a supposed chupacabra shot in texas some time back. As for the other.. perhaps it is a juvenile raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) I To address the statement that perhaps a dog and fox got it on.. not likely as they are not the same species Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyverna Posted August 24, 2012 #8 Share Posted August 24, 2012 Hmm... Haven't supposed chupacabras that look very similar to this been caught and revealed to simply be coyotes or foxes with mange? I think that's all this is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simbi Laveau Posted August 24, 2012 #9 Share Posted August 24, 2012 It doesn't look like a fox to me. The head almost looks like an otter or something . It's cute . I'm sad its dead . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mnemonix Posted August 24, 2012 #10 Share Posted August 24, 2012 Could be a fox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thegreatsilence Posted August 24, 2012 #11 Share Posted August 24, 2012 Raccoon dog with mange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMS Dreadnought Posted August 24, 2012 #12 Share Posted August 24, 2012 Were-hyrax in disguise. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafterman Posted August 24, 2012 #13 Share Posted August 24, 2012 This is what a chupacabra is supposed to look like, and I don't think they're native to Ukraine. Mexico and southern Texas, mainly. Not really, a Chupacabra is supposed to look like this: The thing in your picture is simply a canine that someone started calling a Chupacabra at some point. And as for the OP, two words - Daily Mail. That's all you need to know. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrant lizard Posted August 24, 2012 #14 Share Posted August 24, 2012 I think it looks more like this than the fox, just with a smaller tail. This is a kangeroo with Mange Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKO Posted August 24, 2012 #15 Share Posted August 24, 2012 Remember when Chupacabra's looked like this: Then at some point they changed to looking something like this: A few mangy dog/fox/raccoon photos come out and these people change their minds and say "Actually, that's what a Chupacabra looks like." 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKO Posted August 24, 2012 #16 Share Posted August 24, 2012 I think it looks more like this than the fox, just with a smaller tail. This is a kangeroo with Mange Are you sure that's a kangaroo? Kangaroo's have very rigid tails. The pretty much use it as a third foot, I can't imagine them being able to wrap it around themselves. Also they have large ears and wide snouts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrant lizard Posted August 25, 2012 #17 Share Posted August 25, 2012 Are you sure that's a kangaroo? Kangaroo's have very rigid tails. The pretty much use it as a third foot, I can't imagine them being able to wrap it around themselves. Also they have large ears and wide snouts. I couldn't be less sure about anything! I googled kangeroo with mange and that came up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKO Posted August 26, 2012 #18 Share Posted August 26, 2012 I couldn't be less sure about anything! I googled kangeroo with mange and that came up Haha, bloody google images. I typed in kangaroo to get the above pictures, a bunch of koala photos showed up too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeptic Chicken Posted August 26, 2012 #19 Share Posted August 26, 2012 jeeeeeeeeeeeeeez that picture is ancient. I've seen that thing well before the date of that article :\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raggedw00ds Posted September 24, 2012 #20 Share Posted September 24, 2012 So far every so called dead Chupacabra people have found look to be either a dead mangy Coyote, Dog, or Fox. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urisk Posted September 26, 2012 #21 Share Posted September 26, 2012 Is it just me or does the animal in the second picture look totally different to the other two? Mind you it is the Daily Mail; hardly known for it's high-brow journalism... Must be a slow day, no reports on Polish teenage single-mum hoodies with drug problems stealing everyone's jobs or something Badger? That's kind of what I wondered. For the second picture anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notoverrated Posted September 27, 2012 #22 Share Posted September 27, 2012 this is so old, i want to see something freaky not just a naked dog >.> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junior Chubb Posted September 27, 2012 #23 Share Posted September 27, 2012 this is so old, i want to see something freaky not just a naked dog >.> Dude, get some money and head for the Red Light district, all the freaky action you will ever want, as well as a few naked dogs... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan'O Posted September 28, 2012 #24 Share Posted September 28, 2012 Wait a minute.... there are pictures of two different animals on that page. The top one, the one I meant to post, is most clearly a mangy fox. The second could be a juvenile fox or a marten, but it's by no mean a mystery creature. The two different animal pics don't give me high hopes for the authenticity of the story, either. I agree 100% imaginarynumber1. Mangy fox and a mangy marten. The story itself is a bad joke. But here is some more on mange in ukraine (mange-chupa...whatever) http://bigfooteviden...-torch-and.html Anyway the nasty, rusty rimmed trays, blue/greenish hospital colors and dirty cart does scream of some old/abandoned/ill-kept clinic/hospital in Eastern Europe/Russia though. But I looked deeper and I see that "east2west" submitted the pictures. They have submitted weird stories/pictures before. Some may remember the tree growing in the lung story: http://news.sky.com/...nside-mans-lung ...pictures by east2west As far as I can find there is no real east2west, and that is where the story takes a weird turn. Now I have found many references to east2west. One from a media company (semi/pseudo-religious?) run out of the states. I also found that catholic.org picked the story up too: http://www.catholic....ry.php?id=47362 ...anyway A found a few links that had "East2West British news agency" with references to a bunch of linkin profiles all to Russian/East European women. http://nl.linkedin.com/in/kalashnikova http://uk.linkedin.c...tova/28/540/175 http://uk.linkedin.c...enko/51/5b7/7a9 Which leads to: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rmottola82 Who has that company in the states http://www.east2west....com/about.html Now what is the first thing you guys think? Well I then found these stories with images supplied by "east2west" http://www.telegraph...ort-skirts.html http://www.guardian....ina-zatuliveter http://themoscownews.../188263585.html That kinda confirmed my suspicions anyway. I did find the original story is out of Russia (from what I can tell) here with NO COPYRIGHT/OWNERSHIP in the pics: http://englishrussia...hunting-season/ Which leads to a blogger here: http://2leep.com/bar...686.html#cutid1 I find this all very ****in weird. The story here is not the mange/chupa angle either... But what do I know. "I know nothing!" -sgt Schultz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostHunterChickx Posted October 10, 2012 #25 Share Posted October 10, 2012 I was reading somewhere that someone tested an animals dna, something the locals killed and believed was a chupacabra, but turned out it was a coyote and a grey wolf cross breed......so anything that resembles a dog, is probably either a mangey dog or a hybrid of some sort! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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