The school bus driver, a resident of the village of Kamensk, Sergei Lyashko, is clearly not inclined to fantasies. But what happened in his courtyard cannot explain.
It began with the fact that on a January morning the owner found a dead rabbit in the yard on the path. There were clear bite marks on the animal's neck, and the cage was broken. The next day, at about six o'clock in the morning, Sergei was awakened by a noise in the yard: the rabbits were rushing wildly in their cages. He immediately jumped out with a flashlight, but found no one.
A few days later - the same story. This time the man saw that one of the cages had been gnawed “like a chainsaw” -and a thick board, nailed down with four nails, had been torn out with meat. Apparently, Sergei frightened off the night robber, and he did not manage to get to the rabbits. Here the former hunter ran out of patience, and he placed wolf traps at the cages.
Several days passed. And again in the morning there was a commotion in the yard. Sergei and his son immediately jumped out. Near the cages, an unknown creature beat and howled in a bad voice.
- Imagine the cry of a goat, only not intermittent, but drawn out, - says our hero. - And the manner of "execution" of howling was like a wolf.
Seeing people, the animal, sitting on its hind legs, hunched over and took a threatening pose. At the withers, it reached about half a meter, the muzzle - not elongated, like that of a dog, more like a badger. The color - either gray or black - could not be clearly seen in the early winter morning by the light of a flashlight.
- I shouted to my son: “Bear, if you want her!” - says Sergey. - The son grabbed a pitchfork and hit the beast with a swing. But … the pitchfork bounced!
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The attack seemed to give the beast strength. As soon as Mikhail raised the pitchfork for the second blow, the animal thrashed, somehow twisted and escaped from the trap.
- They were old, worn out, - Sergey complains. - And the beast, probably caught, tried to escape, and also loosened the mounts.
The animal runs very quickly, on four legs. Interestingly, the front ones are much shorter, so the back of the body is much higher. When dawn broke, the men measured the footprints left. The claws were at least five centimeters long.
The night visitor appeared at the courtyard two more times, but prudently did not approach the traps. Judging by the tracks, he was stomping at the door to the chicken coop, but for some reason he did not touch the chickens. I calmed down only when Sergei, who was tired of these visits, led the lighting into the courtyard and turned it on at night. After that, the family stopped worrying.
Unusual, unlike anyone else's tracks, in Pavlovsk this spring were found more than once
- There is no such animal as the Chupacabra in nature. Most likely, this is a fighting dog, which unscrupulous owners release at night, and it “has fun” in this way,”says Olga Kirnasova, head of the zoological department of the Pavlovsk station of young naturalists. - Animals of such breeds have powerful jaws and paws, they can easily break the spine of a small animal or gnaw and break something very hard.