What is the matter regarding the chupacabra and pictures?”
Although experts deny its existence, pictures speak louder than words. The controversy that surrounds the mythical chupacabra now lingers in Lakehills, after the Jackson family shot and killed what they believe could be the Latin American creature. On May 26, Jim Jackson saw in his front yard a strange animal drinking from a water trough he keeps full for the resident deer. Not sure what it was, but noting that it appeared unhealthy and not indigenous to the area, he shot and killed the animal. “We feared for our household pet,” Sandra Jackson said. “There was a baby with her, but it ran away.” Sandra sent pictures of the hairless animal to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, as well as a local veterinarian. The reigning consensus was that they had encountered a sick dog or coyote with severe mange or other skin condition.
Although experts deny its existence, pictures speak louder than words. The controversy that surrounds the mythical chupacabra now lingers in Lakehills, after the Jackson family shot and killed what they believe could be the Latin American creature. On May 26, Jim Jackson saw in his front yard a strange animal drinking from a water trough he keeps full for the resident deer. Not sure what it was, but noting that it appeared unhealthy and not indigenous to the area, he shot and killed the animal. “We feared for our household pet,” Sandra Jackson said. “There was a baby with her, but it ran away.” Sandra sent pictures of the hairless animal to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, as well as a local veterinarian. The reigning consensus was that they had encountered a sick dog or coyote with severe mange or other skin condition. “First of all, this isn’t a chupacabra,” Heather Halbritter with TPWD said in an email correspondence. “But, I am concerned about sarcoptic mange…rabies…[an
When Jim Jackson, who lives off PR 37 across from Dancing Bear on the Bandera-Medina county line, shot a strange creature on May 26 at the water trough he keeps for the deer, Jim and wife Sandra were convinced that they had confirmed the existence of the ever-elusive chupacabra. “Jim feeds the deer,” she explained, “and when he saw this ugly-looking creature drinking from the water trough he said it looked like something that needed to be shot. He shot it and a baby ran away.” Convinced that they had killed a legendary chupacabra, the couple took pictures of the animal from all sides and sent them to the Medina County game warden and to a veterinarian.
