“These guys, I believe, followed them from central America.” “The donkeys that come from central Mexico, Texas, they come right through my gate,” said Brundige, who has lived at the base of the mountain for 28 years. The creature had a ratlike tail and a grayish black stripe on its midsection, he said. It has a very narrow, ratlike face, with undulations in it, more like a marsupial.” It has a body like a Chihuahua, stretched out, with a large thoracic cavity,” Brundige said. Tom Brundige, an inventor of fire-resistant paint additives and insulation, first saw the creatures this past spring in an area burned in the Opera Fire in April. When dogs (or coyotes) frantically scratch for relief from the itching, they eventually cause much of their hair to fall out. Mange is a skin condition found in dogs and other canines, caused by scabies mites that burrow under the skin. Officials said the Redlands reports appeared to be of coyotes with mange. In 2013, chupacabra sightings were reported in Redlands, northeast of Box Springs Mountain. By 1996, The Press-Enterprise was reporting sightings in Fontana and Perris. Initial reports focused on the “goat suckers” preying on livestock. But it had too many different characteristics from any of them.”Ĭhupacabra sightings first occurred in Puerto Rico in 1995, and were soon echoed throughout Latin America. “I thought it might be a sick coyote, a sick wolf. “The ears of a deer, long snout, no hair, tail like a rat, long hindquarters,” she said. She saw the creature for the first time a year ago, eating fruit from a tree in a front yard. Cary Shuker, of Riverside, walks in the area near his home where he encountered an animal he believes was a chupacabra, Thursday, July 20, 2017. Blunt, a retired child development consultant. “I thought, ‘That is the strangest-looking animal I’ve ever seen,’” said M.J.
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