[Dusty Road]

No need to test it’s a badger with mange, Sometimes the coyotes around here get it and they’ll be completely bald and they are ugley! Besides everybody know’s Chupacabra’s are only found in South TX.

[Cvengr]

Werewolf?

[Hot Tabasco]

No need to test it’s a badger with mange,

Yep, definitely a badger.....

Where I used to hunt in Kansas, they were as common there as groundhogs are here..........

[Scanian]

You beat me to the punch——I was about to contribute that the chupacabras only exists where the majority of the population speaks Spanish.

It was actually “discovered” in Puerto Rico about 20-25 years ago and the tale spread all over the Spanish-speaking world.

Most of the US “chupacabras” roadkill have turned out to be coyotes. Mangy, maybe, but still coyotes.

[tdscpa]

I don’t think it is a badger. Snout too long and narrow. Teeth totally different.

http://www.google.com/search?q=badger+teeth&hl=en&biw=1045&bih=704&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=iQhBTt_TFMSKsQL2zpW2CQ&sqi=2&ved=0CC4QsAQ

I think it is a dog that had mange for a very long time. Dogs can grow very long “claws” if they are not active.