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The interest is all about a dead, hairless, coyote-like creature that was captured by Lynn Butler, a former student at the school. According to McDaniel, Butler heard something in his cousin's barn "tearing up the chickens pretty bad. So he left poison out thinking it was a raccoon or other varmint." The next day he found the lifeless animal that many claim is a chupacabra.
Jerry Ayer, owner of the Blanco Taxidermy School, isn't so sure that what he has really is what everyone hopes he has. But as the man who is in the process of stuffing the beast, he does know he's working on something unique.
"To be honest, I don't know what it is. I'd probably say it's a freak-of-nature coyote, or a hybrid breed with a genetic mutation," the soft-spoken Ayer said.
Ayer says he stuffs about 15 to 20 coyotes a year, and this is no coyote. "The footpads are different. They're rather bulbous. And this has longer legs by a few inches."
Just as expected. Wildlife experts have been saying for decades that the majority of chupacabra sightings are the result of diseased or hybrid coyotes, and this seems to back that theory. A cross-breed with a dog would easily account for anatomical differences the article mentions. There's certainly nothing mythical or supernatural about it.
Perhaps they should designate "Chupacabra" as the official term for coyote hybrids, so the term takes on a real, tangible meaning rather than having this aura of mysticism about it.
