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Richyboyo

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I wonder if anyone can throw any light on this photo—as in exactly where and when it was 1st published?

It was some time in 1950

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Chupacabra or What - Is It? If you know, you might tell Charles Hudson of Dallas, Tex. His coon dogs ran the strange creature down and killed it before he could stop them.

It has the head of a fox, tail of a possum, feet like a raccoon and is completely hairless.

Acme photo. Mar. 10, 1950


Source:
http://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2010/07/fortean-oddball-news-7192010.html
 
If you do a Google picture search for 'hairless raccoon' it's starting to look like a very good call. But my god, some of them are ugly!
 
And just as I was typing my previous post there was a simultaneous reference to beaver (Leave it to Beaver) on TV. And it's a word I hadn't encountered in ages. Just a very small coincidence...
 
I wonder if anyone can throw any light on this photo, (click on link), as in exactly where and when it was 1st published? It was some time in 1950

http://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2010/07/fortean-oddball-news-7192010.html

No. It appears this photo first surfaced online circa 2010, and it's been copied to photo hosting and cryptozoology sites worldwide.

All the ones I've found seem to be scaled versions of the same photo.

I even checked for possible hits under the older crypto category 'blue dog' (as in 'Texas Blue Dog'), but found nothing more.

Without some sort of publication citation it's impossible to determine where / how it first appeared.

There's nothing in the young man's appearance that refutes or clashes with the 1950 attribution.

There was an 'Acme Photo' in Dallas - both as an independent photo shop and the photo processing offered through the Acme supermarkets.

The most telling features would be the raccoon-like feet and the stated fact it was chased down by coon dogs (which are trained to focus on raccoons). I'm convinced it's a bald raccoon.

Here are some specific links to available photos of bald / hairless raccoons:

http://torontoist.com/2012/04/spotted-the-return-of-the-bald-raccoon/

(2012 report of hairless / bald raccoon in Toronto: The Torontoist)

http://carnivoraforum.com/topic/9699450/1/

(Post #9: A 2012 thread on the Carnivora forum)

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2009/08/01/is_a_bald_raccoon_prowling_parkdale.html

(2009; Toronto Star)
 
Hi all you good people, I will inform Jon Downes of the CFZ UK (who asked me to look into this) of your replies
 
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