Chupacabra or weird coyote?

[Kmh1]

This sure just looks like a strange dog or coyote to me--it does have a weird head/ body proportions though....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqebUluWFM4&feature=related

 

[Boemy]

It . . . it looks like a dog.

Honestly, I think the odds of an unknown large mammal existing that mysteriously no one has ever shot or hit with a car yet is pretty unlikely. (In the US, anyway. Maybe in some distant rain forest.)

 

[Lilavati]

Its a canine of some sort. Probably with mange, but who knows, maybe there's a line of hairless coyotes out there. Whatever it is, its nothing supernatural.

 

[FoxyWench]

the image of the head looked almost bull terrier ish...i think its some kind of canine with a skin disorder or mixed with a naturally hairless breed...ect.

 

[Beanie]

Wasn't the dead thing they found not that long ago a dog/coyote hybrid or something?
I think this is probably the same case... some kind of weird dog or coyote. It definitely looks rather doggy to me.

 

[FoxyWench]

the one they found dead on the beach is most liekly a very dead bloated racoon!

 

[PixieSticksandTricks]

It would be cool if it really was one. But to me it looks like a dog with mange.

 

[Beanie]

the one they found dead on the beach is most liekly a very dead bloated racoon!

No, that's the "monster" that was found a few weeks ago... I mean one months and months ago. They cut it up and did some DNA testing or something and determined it was a coyote/dog thingie, IIRC!

 

[FoxyWench]

didnt hear about that one!

its very possible for a coyote and domestic dog to mix "coy-dogs" are around, so mabe it is a coytoe x some kind of bull terrier

 

[Romy]

There is a newer extremely virulent strain of mange going around in coyotes. I'm posting links to these pics, because they are kind of graphic (be warned!), they show animals exactly like in the video that have been identified as infected coyotes.

The odd thing about this new strain of mange, is that it seems to affect their behaviour as well. I'll see if I can dig up some articles about it. My internet is painfully slow tonight.

Here is a thread from a cryptozoology forum with some really clear (and gross) pictures of DNA verified coyotes:
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread294459/pg

Here is an interesting article speculating that these animals could be xolos:

http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0904-chupacabra.html

Though if they were DNA'd as coyotes, I'd be more inclined to believe that. Species specific DNA testing is a lot more reliable than testing for breed makeup.