Andrey, the owner of a house in the old part of Revda, who reported to the editor about the terrible massacre in his farm on July 31, 2013, is sure that the animals and birds were killed by the Chupacabra, an aggressive, cruel and unknown animal that seems to be found in southern Russia and in Ukraine.
Arriving at the place, we saw the grief-stricken owners of the house: Andrey and Angelina. Holding back tears, Angelina said that her husband was at work, and she was in the house with her daughters (7 and 16 years old), “at two o'clock in the morning (the clock chimed) woke up from an insignificant noise in the garden, something rumbled, and came again silence: not a cry, not a sound, not even the dogs barked.
“There is no sign of a massacre anywhere,” the woman says. - In the morning I went to feed the animals. I saw the package in the shed torn, the ladder dropped, the boxes collapsed. I thought our puppies were mischievous. And then how did it come out …
Of the four nearest cages, by a miracle, one remained intact, in it a rabbit with four rabbits, and next to it, a dozen young rabbits are still alive, but, according to Angelina, it is very difficult to feed them even with whole cow's milk. The mother has disappeared. Below lies a dead pregnant rabbit …
- This year we bought five breeds of ducks: the Russian crested (there is no one in Revda at all, now we have only one of the two), the Indo-duck, the decoy mallard. We bought eggs, brought them out in an incubator. So much effort, money invested …
On the distant cages (there are more than a dozen of them) there are traces of claws and jaws, literally "with meat" all metal doors are torn, and on the approaches there is a real rabbit slaughter: dozens of fluffy corpses with gnawed muzzles, paws or practically whole (apparently only strangled) are scattered throughout the garden. In the duck pen, the same terrible scene.
The hostess (she is busy with the bird) says that "there were more than fifty ducks, but if five remained, then all are crippled." Several geese were badly injured, they, like the wounded ducks, died the next day. Fortunately, for some reason the beast did not touch the pens for guinea fowls, turkeys, the barn where the pigs and piglets are.
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- This year we bought five breeds of ducks: the Russian crested (there is no one in Revda at all, now we have only one of the two), the Indo-duck, the decoy mallard. We bought eggs, brought them out in an incubator. So much effort, money invested, - complains Angelina. - We thought we were going to take care of the bird, the ducks began to rush …
The hostess laments that she did not go out into the garden at night, did not check and did not frighten off the beast. Just how to scare a woman with a stick? Perhaps the night robber would attack her too …
The head of the family has been breeding rabbits for five years already, pedigree animals: a white giant, a panda … In the cages, according to the owner, “there were breeding rabbits (about one and a half dozen), three or four dozen raised rabbits, pregnant rabbits, feeding females with rabbits - now it's the season for the cubs."
Andrey is sure that some animal ruined the rabbit cages and the duck paddock, he inherited the order: there are scratches from claws and fangs on the cages, in some places there are clumps of long gray-gray wool, on the beds there are prints of large paws. I ask, whose trace is this?
- Damn, - the owner of the ruined courtyard answers gloomily. - The dog will never break three boards of the fence and will not be able to destroy the cages like that, and the fox tracks are smaller. Yes and no wild dogs here, all the owners. See what jumps! No blood, bitten off heads. And most importantly, the dogs do not feel it! On the Internet, people say that there is such a beast unknown to science that eats all living things - the Chupacabra. Really damn. He was! And more will come!
The spouses claim that their acquaintance, "Uncle Yura said that he was afraid for his rabbits (he even moved the rabbit cages to the barn), since in Revda a month and a half ago there were two similar mysterious cases at the DOK and the Industrial Complex." However, according to rumors, either the "Chupacabra" was caught, or it did not exist at all - in a word, everyone calmed down.
The chief physician of the Revda veterinary hospital, Alexander Ivashkov, who came on our call, said that "clearly a healthy animal was hunting, animals sick with rabies do not do that." And yet, in order to prevent the next day, he vaccinated the owner's dogs.
Later, hunters and game experts from Rovda arrived at the scene of the massacre, who were very skeptical about the version of the Chupacabra. Having studied the tracks in the garden and the rabbit cages, they began to suspect that a lynx with a brood had visited the farm.
This explained the silence of the dogs, and the absence of noise, and the large number of victims. The only thing, according to the hunters, is that the lynx would not disdain piglets and chickens, and its lynxes are still too small for hunting. It seemed strange that the lynx was breaking the boards of the fence, and not just jumping over it. Besides, why would she have to rip the doors off the rabbit cages when it’s easier to jump into the pens with chickens, turkeys and piglets? One of the hunters even joked that a lynx came with a nail puller.
Experts explained that rabbits and ducks are easier prey for lynx than all others, it is easier to drag prey on the ground than to jump with it on high fences. The hunters advised the owners to set up wolf traps. And they even rented three pieces to Andrey, which he placed on the Chupacabra's path.
A day later, an animal specialist from the regional center came to the ruined farm. Having found new tracks (on the board), carefully examining the old ones, he unofficially made an unambiguous conclusion: the perpetrators of the massacre were not wild animals, but wild dogs, judging by the tracks of their paws, large. However, the bites on the cages were made with a narrow jaw, which means, according to the hunting experts, most likely a bitch with a brood came to the garden, who taught the puppies to kill.
The fur and other traces of the animal left by him at the crime scene were sent for examination to the Department for the Protection, Control, Regulation and Use of Wildlife. The surname of the specialist is not indicated at the request of the game managers. The official expert opinion will be published on the Department's website.
Andrei and Angelina think that now they will have to gradually remove the animals, "they were going to move to relatives in Tyumen anyway, when the eldest daughter graduated from school."