Some people are saying that this is a chupacabra. Whatever it is, it’s certainly a weird one. I can’t understand the video, but it’s worth watching just to see the animal.
Does anybody here know what it is?
As the article notes, I think it’s probably some sort of civet which has become hairless. But, it’s also clear that that website would rather encourage speculation about cryptids.
I’ve seen a number of animal rescue videos and that sure as hell looks like mange(also noted in the article). I sure hope it got the help it needed.
If Coast to Coast is hyping it, the explanation will turn out to be quite ordinary.
Yup, that’s mange. Looks a lot like a mangey fox that was in the neighborhood a few years ago.
Yeah, my first thought was a canid with mange.
My vote is also for a dog with serious mange, and malnutrition.
I’d like to see a picture of this creature after both are treated.
Hehehe, you mean the guys who used to have the “Time Traveler Hot Line” aren’t doing hard journalism? Say it ain’t so!
I really used to enjoy listening to that very, very silly program when driving at night.
The animal is able to climb, at one point it is hanging from the roof of its cage, which pretty much rules out a dog.
My first impression was a marsupial of some kind, but as the odds of a mangy marsupial found in India are quite low, I am going with mangy civet, which are endemic. Well… the civets, at least, and judging from the street dogs I saw in India, also the mange.
Not a dog - too bendy and climb-ey. Manget civet or mustelid.
Yes, a civet more than likely.
Poor thing 
Definitely an asian palm civet.
Not sure its mange, its more like malnutrition ,like a caged animal might suffer if fed badly
but also living in the city they don’t get the correct diet.
Seconded. 
This looks like a much healthier example of the creature described in the OP.
(Aren’t these also the animals whose poop is used to make the world’s most expensive coffee?)
To answer your question factually, no, I don’t know what it is. Is there a remote viewer in the house?
Canid? How did I see ‘a cryptid with mange’?
Another vote for mangy civet.
A different species. The one I posted is Viverra zibetha; the coffee poo civet is the common palm civet - Paradoxurus hermaphroditus.
They do share some territory so it is possible, I suppose, but V. Zibetha is much more common in the area where this animal was captured.
Civets of various species are common over south Asia and much of Africa.
When I hear “chupacabra” I think of a Latin dance number performed by Carmen Miranda.