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[JoshuaJSlone]

No new images this time. The story has video with it, but I couldn't get it to work so I don't know what it contains. This sighting is said to be from around San Antonio, which isn't far from where the first was seen earlier this year in Elmendorf.

http://www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=90BEAC88-E5DD-4B7A-A287-BBB622ACA55F

"I happened to be looking out my window and saw what I thought was a fawn in my backyard," said a homeowner who didn't want to be identified.

What he found was a blue-grayish animal with very little hair, a long tail, fangs and long claws.

...

"I looked at the video you have shown me and from the structure of the muzzle of the animal, ear and all, he or she looks like a coyote, in very very bad shape," said Lynn Cuny with the Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation.

But a blue-gray coyote? Cuny says mange can do that.

"It does distort the body, there's no question about that, that's what takes place," says Cuny.

But to repeat the lack of full explanation with the mange theory...
http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=4258

In fact, the animals have a disease more profound than mange, if they are coyotes, because their skeletons have been altered, most particularly the lower jaws, which appear to have incisors that are far larger than those in any canid, or, in fact, any known mammal.

This could be because of bone loss in the jaws that is making the teeth appear larger. The lower jaws are so short that the animal would have trouble eating, suggesting that it is a deformity caused by disease.

But what disease? No form of mange causes bone loss, and that lack of bleeding from the animals when they were shot suggests a profound systemic illness of some kind.

And for reference, the previous threads on this subject:
http://www.ga-forum.com/showthread.php?t=19091
http://www.ga-forum.com/showthread.php?t=12293

 

[Gek54]

I told you all it was a fucked up coyote!

 

[Ill Saint]

This is so bizarre... what the hell kind of messed up disease is this? the things are like living corpses -- zombie dogs.

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

I told you all it was a fucked up coyote!

Likely. The remaining question is, what's causing it?

 

[Jim Bowie]

I believe it's a chupacabra, the legendary animal. I mean, why not? Legend has turned into seemingly obvious proof. Perhaps that's where the indecision lies.. it's too blatant.

 

[Particle Physicist]

Likely. The remaining question is, what's causing it?

.. and let hope to fucken got it doesnt transfer over to human like many other diseases. :/

 

[Jeffahn]

A artist's impression...

 

[Warm Machine]

Did Umbrella release the T-Virus yet?

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

I believe it's a chupacabra, the legendary animal. I mean, why not? Legend has turned into seemingly obvious proof. Perhaps that's where the indecision lies.. it's too blatant.

It wouldn't surprise me if something like this was the basis for some of the reports. But the ability to stand upright is one pretty big difference.

.. and let hope to fucken got it doesnt transfer over to human like many other diseases. :/

*advertiser voice* Like mad cow? You'll love wily coyote!

 

[alejob]

That is not a chupacabra, chupacabras make tiny holes with incredible precision on the back of their prey(goats, cows, etc) and suck them dry. This couldn't do anything like that.

chupacabras = goatsucker, in case you didn't know.

I saw the video, scary dogs/cayote. LOL!