Earlier this year, PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) raised a stink for Paul the Octopus. Paul is the psychic octopus that predicted the winners for seven of the World Cup winners in Germany. This animal seems to display incredible psychic ability.

Paul the Octopus lives in a tank at a Sea Life Centre in Oberhausen, Germany. Paul presumably lives at a comfortable temperature at the Sea Life Centre. He also appears to have plenty of food available to him. Yet, PETA decided that Paul needed their help. PETA decided Paul should be free and they raised a lot of ruckus to ensure his freedom.

He remains in the tank in Germany.

For the last two months, 300 goats were said to be beheaded in Mexico. Was it the Chupacabra who killed them as the people in Mexico are led to believe? Was it drug cartels murdering goats wanting to scare ‘simple’ villagers to distract them from what’s really going on around the villages? Is it just the owners of these animals wanting to gain notoriety?

I have so far not read one statement from PETA regarding these particular incidents in Mexico.

Does PETA’s assistance depend on where you live? Does it depend on the animal displaying special abilities before an animal is defended? Does it matter if a ‘mythical creature’ is slaying the animals or not?

I am making this post with the intention of a PETA representative answering any or all of these questions.

I would like to know.

Perhaps an open letter to PETA might get them to answer any or all of these questions.

The mythical creature (El Chupacabra), although presumably an animal, has never beheaded victims before. He has merely sucked the blood out of the bodies of his victims. This was apparently okay. Beheadings, however, doesn’t seem okay to me. Why haven’t you weighed in on this?

In a superstitious culture,  like Mexico, where animals are attacked by another animal (a mythical one at that) – suddenly the mythical animal begins to attack innocent goats in the same fashion as drug cartels would?

Why is that?

PETA, do you care enough about these animals to investigate and see what’s really going on there? Do you only fight for animals living in cages…or just those in tanks lately? Is Mexico simply too dangerous of an area for you to raise a stink in?

Not judging, just want to know. Any clarification on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Sucking blood from his victims seems to have become very boring for El Chupacabra. The creature now appears to be beheading the goats in Mexico, as initially reported by AOLNews.

It isn’t clear from the reports if he is sucking the blood out of the goats before or after the decapitations.

More than 300 goats have been beheaded over a two-month period. Since very little evidence of blood remains at the scene of each incident, El Chupacabra must be the culprit, they say.

The cryptid (an animal not yet confirmed by science)  has taken the blame for many deaths. He has also been the subject of frequent satire, usually related to Arizona.

Two months ago, the Weekly World News released a satirical story about President Obama releasing the creature into Saguaro National Park in Pima County, Arizona. Obama made this move, according to the story, to force Arizonans to repeal the controversial immigration law SB 1070 before it went into effect.

In another widely circulated believed-to-be-true story, the creature attacked Tucsonan Billy Nubian’s goats during one of the very first documented Chupacabra attacks. The problem with that story is that “Nubian” is a breed of goat. Considering that fact, the man’s name would be “Billy Goat”.  People, quit spreading that story, it’s not true. It’s simply another Arizona myth.

It’s  no wonder that Arizona and Mexico have beheading on their minds. With the drug cartels clearly performing that act on people in Mexico, El Chupacabra is now beheading Mexican goats.

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is blamed for creating that mythical claim about beheadings on U.S. soil.

The answer to all of this is quite simple:

Just blame El Chupacabra.

Warning: Graphic photo of slain Mexico goats below.

Slain goat photo/ courtesy argonmexico.com

El Chupacabra lives. The mythical monster has been spotted in Texas, Oklahoma, and even Connecticut in recent weeks.

El Chupacabra sightings hardly cause Tucsonans to bat an eyelash anymore. He’s old news to us.  One of the first U.S. encounters with the goat sucker occured right here in Tucson, 13 years ago. 

Or, did it?

The story goes that in the middle of the night on May 11, 1996, Billy Nubian awoke to the sound of panicked bleating from his two goats, Mattie and Delilah. While Nubian raced outside, El Chupacabra selected Mattie for dinner, and a life and death struggle between goat and creature ensued. Nubian startled the creature and reached Mattie in time. The creature shrieked at Nubian before he fled. Mattie was left unharmed.

A girl named Sarah (no last name) claimed to have encountered the creature in Tucson in 2003. The story goes that Sarah encountered El Chupacabra in her front yard. The creature leapt toward her and hissed before vacating the property. Sarah was left unharmed.

Yeah.

Has anyone bothered to study the name of the the first eyewitness? Billy…Nubian. Nubian is a goat breed. Yet, accounts still spread all over the world that Tucson resident “Billy Nubian” was one of the first to report a chupacabra. Billy…Goat.

People, please quit spreading that story. 

There have been no other pubilcized chupacabra sightings here in Tucson since 2003. Yet, encounters with El Chupacabra continue to spread across the United States.

An announcement was made in recent weeks that a dead “chupacabra” would be put on display at a creationist museum in Phoenix. That’s Phoenix, New York  –  NOT Phoenix, Arizona. Whew!

A real estate developer in the small New York town of Phoenix acquired the dead critter in Texas. He had it stuffed and placed on display. The creature’s carcass stands frozen in a menacing pose for the whole world to see.

It’s nothing we haven’t seen before.

It looks like a mangy coyote, like all the others found in recent years. It looks nothing like eyewitness accounts of the creature.  A tissue sample has been sent for testing. So, we shall wait and see what the experts have to say about this one.

Fox News discussed the creature on display recently. Who knew after all these years that the word “chupacabra” would be so hard to pronounce.

At least ”billy goat” is easier to say.

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