Cats or Chupas?
On each and every one of the various occasions I traveled to Puerto Rico in search of the vampire-like Chupacabras, I heard tales that at least some of the attacks attributed to the beast were, in fact, the work of big-cats roaming the island.
Of course, Puerto Rico has no indigenous big-cats in its midst; however, when I visited the island with Jon Downes in 2004, we were told several stories of people who were said to own big-cats that had grown too big to handle, and that were allegedly released undercover of darkness into Puerto Rico’s El Yunque rain-forest.
And, with this new story of a possible big-cat on the loose on the island, it seems the tales may indeed have a firm foundation in fact.
I should stress that this doesn’t mean I dismiss all Chupacabras attacks as the work of far more conventional predators. Rather, my own conclusion is that the Chupacabras is merely a significant part of the unusual animal killings on Puerto Rico; and that other cases - such as those cited in the news article above - need to be addressed on their own merits.
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Dec 15 2008 
December 16th, 2008 at 5:13 am
Sounds like a small female jaguar or a large ocelot. Reports of feral domestics getting very large have been reported from such diverse areas as the UK, the eastern US and Australia. There filling voids left by larger predators like lynxes. Coyotes are their main rivals as well as predators. The feral domestic cats grow larger to compete and defend themselves against coyotes. I’ve seen a huge feral black domestic cat in Arizona in the small patch of desert south of Luke AFB about 6-7 years ago. Feral domestic cats have peculiar gait compared to their wild cousins like bobcat. Bobcats and cougar have been reported to be getting larger as well with a trapped bobcat in Maine reported at an amazing 70+lbs.