The townspeople say: Chupacabra is back. However, experts are sure - there is no mysticism in these incidents. And everyone knows the ruthless killer. So who takes the life of rabbits under cover of night?
Footprints on the fence and cages. Tolley from teeth. Tolley from claws. An unknown beast came to visit the family of Vladimir and Larisa Shishkin at night. At that time, only Vladimir was at home. He heard a suspicious noise in the yard.
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Vladimir SHISHKIN:
- I hear, she squeaked, I jump out, I look - just flashed, well, that's all, there were guests, then I turned on the light, looked like that, I didn't seem to see it.
In the morning, Vladimir and his wife Larisa saw the result of the night's visit. They have cages with rabbits in the yard. One of them was opened. A large, almost five-kilogram rabbit, which the other day was supposed to bring offspring, lay dead on the ground.
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Larisa SHISHKINA:
- There was a rabbit in this cage, but the carcass was lying here, blood was sucked from the head of the neck, everything was in the blood, it’s necessary to turn the booth open, open it, close it.
The family first encountered the vampire beast at this time last year. Then similar invasions took place in different areas of the Altai Territory and in the Kemerovo Region. An unknown predator made its way into private yards at night, destroyed animals and disappeared. The dogs did not speak at the same time.
In 2015, this animal visited Larisa and Vladimir's courtyard four times. He left more than twenty rabbits bloodless. The hostess was able to make out the night vampire, as she then called him - the Chupacabra.
Larisa SHISHKINA:
- Here she is, with a curled tail, one with a curved tail, the other with a small tail. She just ran up. So I walked over the tomatoes, and I put my paws here, I looked through the tulle, you know, it seemed to me gray, well, the fangs are big, and the teeth are like crooked, but the eyes are red.
Experts have suggested that the mysterious pet hunter is none other than a dog. But the owner of the Shishkin family is sure it is a lynx. It is to her that the manners, habits and appearance of these stranglers are similar.
Vladimir SHISHKIN:
- Because I know everything about her habits, because in April-March three-month-old kittens are kittens, right now she teaches them, because she herself is dark red, the kittens are light, that's all, they saw a red and a light one.
Now the owners are on duty every night. As practice has shown, an intelligent animal avoids traps and poison. There is still hope for a homemade net, with which Vladimir and Larisa hang the cages with rabbits. The owners are sure that the beast came again tonight. However, the network is no longer useful.