Pawn Shop What-Is-It?

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What is this? What could this be?

This is a body of what Dave’s Pawn Shop claims to be a Chupacabras in a display case at the downtown El Paso, Texas shop.

What do you think it might be?

It does sound as if the shop has a number of gaffs, including mummified FeeJee mermaids, a supposedly shrunken head, and Pancho Villa’s alleged trigger finger.

Is this one different? Is it a Chupacabras, as indicated in an article from the El Paso Times?

Could this mummified body be something other than the dried carcass of a dog? What do you make of those “paws”? And those teeth? What do you think it is?

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Please refer to “Update: What-Is-It Solved,” posted on February 21, 2007.