>>294
>Not eating a cow that's been left out to rot for a night or two seems like a fairly reasonable idea
Meat doesn't rot overnight, if you have cooked or put food around your kitchen you would know that. 2 days is a big stretch but you can still get the hard parts of the cow, like the chest and legs, without much spoil. Them not eating it seems more like a combination of superstition/respect regarding the cows' demise and to avoid getting sick with something that still might be inside.
>I'd be careful with this entire "surgical" organ extraction thing
If several persons who know how to cut a cow in literally more than a hundred ways say an injury and extraction had to be made with a special kind of tool or extremely precise creature with physical capabilities not seen in known wild animals then i'm prone to believe them, even if you pulled that they are backland third world ranchers there's also the opinion of the "first world" american ranchers who have attested the same some decades ago.
Just because we don't have an explanation on how something was done doesn't mean it didn't happen.
>>296
In Latin America the modern Chupacabras is synonym with aliens, it appears after bright flashes in the sky and its appearance is similar to some of the most famous cases. The "old" Chupacabras (Demonio de la Sierra, Vampiro de Moca) is practically another monster altogether that looks, moves and behaves differently even between each other:
The Sierra Devil attacks small to medium livestock by going to the neck, brownish red color, a slow quadruped that runs fast as fuck when seen, his sounds are cries and laughter. I always found this beast to be an exaggerated account on the Onza, which is ironically another cryptid but one much more realistic with many more witnesses but still "controversial" to mention because no scientist has ever caught one, so people rather tell tall tales.
The Moca Vampire is a stranger case, it's a local anomaly from Moca which is a city near Arecibo in Puerto Rico, this dude is small, can fly at will, attacks only small animals like cats and has difficulty when fighting big dogs. Dark color, laughs and has prominently attacked people leaving them bites. Practically a big ass bat.
In contrast the Modern Chupacabras attacks any size livestock, prominently big ones like cows yet not horses, along with cabras (goats) because that's the biggest thing most normal farmers had in Northwestern Puerto Rico when it appeared, near Arecibo too by the way. It has never attacked a human and seems to be impervious to damage, either from bullets or sword swings to the head, but it bleed according to a very dusty documentary i saw when i was a kid.
Runs fast as fuck and doesn't actually eat the animals but extracts shit from them according to the infamous police sketches, it slowly pulls its spike-shaped tongue out and sucks the blood from punctures in the arteries, also pulls out the organs themselves like it was a high pressure dental aspirator.
They saw it "fly" a couple of times but it was more about levitating and disappearing than moving wings or something, leaving a stench behind, i recall they said "como agrio humo de los camiones" (like bus exhaust fumes but sour).
I believed that modern one since i was a kid, and i mean i still do believe the dozens of rural folks and cops that say they saw something, but the synchronicity of it is uncanny. You see, back in the mid-90's with all the paranormal/conspirationist/aliums fad going on there were many references and plays towards Puerto Rico but without mentioning the Moca Vampire, it was mostly due to the fact of the Arecibo Antenna as it became a stock location for mysterious works.
007's Goldeneye, the awaited second season premiere of the X-Files, and a couple of alien movies all featured the place and its jungle prominently from 1994 to 1996, and then out of nowhere in late '96 that thing appears doing a mayhem not seen before in modern era. It wasn't the locals seeking attention, they already were having lots of tourism with said movies and shows, then the travel agencies had no hotels or tours for said places because of its underdevelopment. So why? the previously mentioned rural police sketches are highly detailed and honestly very well-drawn, whoever did it was a moderately skilled cop with anatomy classes excelled, too good to be from such a place with all due respect. I can think of rural people selling their lands to big construction firms for hotels and shit, and killing their livestock to mount a bigger show to attract attention yet there's no such development in said places.
It's a very weird case, and doesn't help the place is technically United States territory because they invaded and never went away, currently it's another state and what better place to do crazy experiments than a dense forest inhabited by a bunch of dudes in shitty rez conditions who don't even speak english or contact mainland citizens.
>Do you happen to have an article
Yeah, to make the story short the gov threw the military to search what was going on, after a while they said it they reviewed some cameras and concluded it was a pack of 70 angry dogs who did it. A group of dogs, living in the middle of the desert and that moved like a single small-sized entity, killed goats and cows to extract their organs selectively leaving behind even the soft nerve tissue, also took out the blood and also they were never found and the gov never released the videos, along with nobody catching a glimpse of 70 dogs moving around.
https://www.sinembargo.mx/15-03-2018/3397402
https://vanguardia.com.mx/articulo/ayuda-ejercito-en-busqueda-del-chupacabras-en-ejido-de-saltillo
https://vanguardia.com.mx/articulo/aclaran-misterio-de-la-bestia-en-saltillo-perros-responsables-de-muerte-de-animales-medio
There's also a funny story about the Chupacabras in Mexico, while in the northern parts of the country it is a well known legend, in the south it's mocked because of "rural tales" and because when it reappeared it was at the same time big political shit happened, like the assassination of the leading presidential candidate, the high inflation/market crash, the AMIA bombing, and so on. Nowadays people from the southern cities interpret Chupacabras as political smokescreen rather than something happening that was reported only when the mainstream media needed it.