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In Spanish Chupacabra means “goat sucker”. It got its name after farmers had found their goats dead and sucked dry of all their blood. It is said to be hairless with large fangs and pays with three claws on each. Some say it also has sharp spiney prominences on its back.

No one has ever seen a live Chupacabra but the owner of a taxidermy school in Blanco Texas thinks he might have one of the approximately 30 pound animals. Jerry Ayer who owns the school says he is not sure what he has but thinks it may be a form of a coyote that is genetically mutated or defective in some way. Ayers said it has been hard on him with all the media attention once word got out that he has a Chupacabra, and that he feels like hiding the sign advertising his business under a roc because of it.

Ayers received the body of the animal from a former student who found it in the barn of his cousin where it died apparently from eating poison the cousin put out to kill rodents. Ayers also said that Texas A & M University took tissue samples and will, hopefully, be able to determine just what the animal is.

Ayers seems to think the animal will end up in a museum somewhere and he will be glad when it does he says because then the media attention will die down. Ayers says there is no way he can teach with all this going on.