Animals

If footage can be believed that the chupacabra has just been spotted. The video of the rare animal was caught by a deputy sheriff for DeWitt County. He said that he spotted the animal while driving on the back roads southwest of San Antonio.

The video shows some type of creature, which looks similar to that of a dog or coyote, running in broad daylight as Corp. Brandon Reidel followed it in his car. But while the animal may have some similarities, Reidel said from his view, it didn’t look like a dog or a coyote to him.

“I’ve been patrolling these back roads for a long time and I’ve never run across anything like this until that day,” he told reporters. Reidel said he noticed some interesting characteristics as he followed the fleeing animal. “And you can tell that the front legs were shorter than the back legs. And the way it’s running, it doesn’t run like a normal coyote or dog would.”

But what really sealed the deal, Reidel said, was when he watched the video later and got a good look as the animal turned its head towards the camera. “When I saw it from the side, I was like that is exactly what we have been seeing in the papers, what we’ve seen on the T-shirt,” he said of the animal’s unusually long snout.

The creature was not caught. While Sheriff Joe Zavesky told reporters that he loves what the chupacabra sightings have done for DeWitt County, he said he believes in all likelihood that the creature was most likely some type of coyote-dog hybrid. However, he hasn’t appeared to rule it out totally. “I love this for DeWitt County,” he said. “It has brought a lot attention to us, and I believe there is something to it.”