- Arturo Strange is adamant. He insists that it is not
common for a dog attack to result in all of their prey bunched up, as he
has seen inside his henhouse -- one chicken piled on top of another. Furthermore,
he maintains that "there is a hole in the back through which the creature
came in. As far as I know, dogs don't dig and travel underground."
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- A henhouse suffered a bloody attack in this area and
this time 25 hens were the victims--along with don Arturo Strange's wallet.
The owner of the birds is a long-time resident of the Pudeto Alto sector
in Ancud, a region where the urban borders the rural. It cannot be said
that the rooster stirred things up in the small henhouse, since he too
paid with his life for being at the wrong place at the wrong time.
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- No one can disabuse Strange of the notion that the animal
that killed his birds is a strange beast--the Chupacabras itself. He is
so convinced by this that despite having lost all of his birds, he has
summoned a veterinarian to conduct an analysis. This has happened only
two days after a mink was shot in the outskirts of Llanquihue. On that
occasion, 14 birds were shot by the animal, who is known for sucking blood
and entrails out of its victim, which led people to believe that the Chupacabras
was involved.
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- In what is now being known as "the Ancud Case"
it is possible to believe that the Chupacabras was actually involved. Veterinarian
Andres Norambuena visited the scene of the attack at 13:00 hrs. at 772
Pudeto Street. Without discarding any speculation, the professional has
ventured with some certainty that a dog could be involved. But Strange
is unconvinced, since he insists that "the only dogs I heard barking
yesterday were my own. The hens didn't make a sound; they were nice and
quiet."
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- Another person living in the same household corroborates
this thesis. The only thing that the veterinarian is willing to consider
with a fair amount of convicition is an attack by a mink, but given the
area's physical characteristics and the density of buildings and human
presence, this is doubtful. "Minks attack massively, but I think this
would be the first such report ever known here. In other places there is
considerable carnage, since [the mink] is a rather aggressive animal when
it attacks. But we're in a city. It's unlikely that it would ever come
here," Norambuena observed, returning to his original idea: "But
this attack can be attributed to an animal with a larger muzzle, such as
a dog."
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- The owner of the property says that there are wild creatures
in the area, such as mountain cats and foxes, which have been seen around
where he lives, so he does not discard the possibility of minks or the
Chupacabras.
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- Strange's beliefs have been corroborated by local residents,
particularly on Las Americas street, where two residents have witnessed
an unknown animal. The creature was described as having "an elongated
body, pointy head, slanted eyes and stands on two legs...I only saw it
for a few seconds," says Jacqueline Cordero, one of the locals, who
only six months ago saw an unidentified creature that she believes claimed
the lives of six young chickens.
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- Translation (c) 2004 Scott Corrales, IHU. Special thanks
to Ing. Marco Reynoso
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