Strange Animal Seen Roaming in Rockford [VIDEO]

Is it a deer? A fox? Chupacabra? The answer may have been found.

Residents in Rockford have reported sighting of an unidentified animal roaming the Rockford area.

There have been multiple photographs and video of the animal posted on Facebook.

What is it? In my own opinion, it looks like a deer, with a cat tail and a fox body.

WTVO reports that the animal is most likely a red fox with Sarcopic Mange, Sarcopic Mange is:

...a common skin disease, caused by the Scarcoptes scabiei mite, that's found in coyotes, deer and foxes. And it causes a itchy sensation to the animal. “The animal can't help itself, so it has to scratch and bite itself, and as the mite reproduces under the skin, it causes a thickness of the skin and causes the hair to dry out and the hair to eventually fall out.