Posted on 01/25/2022 10:18:17 PM PST by nickcarraway
Christina Eyth thought she would find her neighbour's dog on the loose, but instead, she found a mystery creature she could not identify, lurking on the left-hand side of her front door.
An unidentified animal rescued by a woman who found it “scared and shivering” near her home has baffled wildlife experts, who can’t decide what it is.
Christina Eyth headed out to investigate around her house after discovering paw prints outside of her door earlier this week.
The woman from Pennsylvania in the US, thought she would find her neighbour's dog on the loose, but instead, she found a mystery creature she could not identify, lurking on the left-hand side of her front door.
“It was so scared and cold and shivering," she said.
“All I could think about was ‘this animal needed help’.
According to WJAC TV reports, Ms Eyth says she gently led the animal into her basement and phoned TJ’s Rescue Hideaway, who helped transport the animal to Wildlife Works.
Morgan Barron, who works for the conservation company, said she couldn’t “definitively say what it is” - despite her training.
"To err on the side of caution… and since it might be a coyote, we can keep it here, get genetic testing done and go from there,” she said.
“Behaviour-wise, he's very timid, very scared and not aggressive at all which makes me lean toward dog," she added.
Wildlife officials have confirmed the animal is being treated for mange and is being kept in isolation.
They are expecting the results from genetic testing to arrive in between two to four weeks.
Closer to home, a mystery animal corpse that washed up on a Devon beach back in 2019 left locals perplexed.
The strange-looking dead animal was barely recognisable, but for what appears to be the remnants of
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It’s know to be a dog or coyote, but everyone is “baffled” by the “mysterious” creature. Great F-ing sensationalism by those stupid UK papers. I’m surprised they didn’t tell us about it’s fashion sense.
Take it in, train it with bacon and it will never leave your side :-)
The spots are a blanket.
It could be a bat-dog hybrid.
a dog with mange=- likely- or a coyote with mange- but likely a dog as it was not real scared of people- not very baffling-
One word: Chupacabra
Some clown threw some leopard skin cloth onto a large possum
We’ve all wanted to...
Looks like a possum, but Chupacabra cannot be ruled out!
The leopard blanket is spotting my vision. I can barely see the slate grey animal to the right.
I would not have just brought some unknown critter into my home, but perhaps when you live near an open wilderness, you get used to seeing the uncommon.
Maybe she could spot signs of aggression when they are displayed. Probably somebody’s pet who knows what a ‘home’ for humans is; a place of safety.
Based on the spots, I’m going with leopard.
Looks like a coy-dog - - half coyote, half domestic dog. We have them here which is why we keep all of our 32 cats inside. Coy-dogs are out during the daytime as well as night and they aren’t as timid as coyotes. We lost a few cats and decided enough is enough.
Farmers here with livestock hate them with a passion.
There’s a wasting disease that’s taken out a lot of them the past few years and that one looks like it has it.
Baby mooscatayote.
How do you round up 32 cats every evening? I only have 7 and wouldn’t even attempt it. They have two good barns and a heated shop with cat doors and secret passages. There is a third barn with a feed room that is a ripe hunting ground for my big black tom but he is sleeping here on the desk right now.
I think you’re right. It looks like a coy dog.
They’re all in the house. LOL Many were already inside cats because they were too stupid to be outside.
There were places around the farm where they could have spent time at night and been safe but they didn’t. A few stayed on the back porch or deck but most wanted to prowl and hunt.
Then the coy-dogs started showing up and the cats couldn’t be safe during the daytime. So we brought them in.
Many’s the time lately that I’ve seen the vile creatures in the back yard in the afternoons. They have no fear of people. And these are BIG. Someone in the area has a large male dog that has a hankerin’ for female coyotes.
There’s a lot of coyote in the shape of its head. That’s the main clue. And I’ve seen them here with that wasting disease and they need to put that one down. It’s an ugly way to go.
Looks like one of the Podengo breeds.
The leopards are mutating and shedding their skin.
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