Escaped from Plum Island? [Scheduled for Shutdown in 2023]
Posted on 01/21/2022 11:39:10 AM PST by Red Badger
VIDEO OF ANIMAL AT LINK................
Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Wildlife experts in Pennsylvania said they are having genetic testing done to identify a mystery animal that might be a dog or a coyote.
Christina Eyth, of Fairfield Township, said she noticed paw prints in front of her door earlier this week and followed them around her house to their source -- a small, dog-like animal curled up outside her basement door.
"I peeked outside the door, and that's whenever I noticed the animal on the left hand side. And it was so scared and cold and shivering," Eyth told WPXI-TV.
Eyth said she wasn't sure if the animal was a dog or a coyote, but she wanted to help the creature, so she coaxed it into her basement and contacted TJ's Rescue Hideaway.
TJ's contacted WildLife Works Mount Pleasant, which sent rescuer Morgan Barron to Eyth's home.
Wildlife Works said in a Facebook post that the group is having genetic testing done on the animal to determine its species.
"Behavior-wise, he's very timid, very scared and not aggressive at all, which makes me lean toward dog," Barron said.
The rescue group said the animal is being kept in isolation until the genetic testing results come back, a process that could take weeks. In the meantime, the creature is being treated for mange.
Eyth said she was happy to help, regardless of whether the animal turns out to be a dog or a coyote.
"There was an animal in need, and I feel like I did the right thing either way," she said.
https://www.wpxi.com/news/top-stories/coyote-dog-animal-experts-unsure-what-type-creature-local-woman-helped-rescue/YOPEYP4ABNBSPDWHQT4AD7NRVE/
Coy-dogs and wolf-dogs are not new at all. Been around for years. You can even purchase wolf-dogs with varying percentages of wolf.
Definitely has some dog DNA judging by the look in his eyes and angle of drooping ears. Definitely not coyote judging by fur.
Me too - I feel sorry for it. He looks like Wile E. Coyote after one of his traps backfired on him. Funny in the cartoons, not so much in real life.
Democrat after mid-elections.
A mangy dog
And how the heck does this make national news? Someone finds a dog and they alert the press and they report it??
It’s got a long crinkled snout and flarcears just like Wile.E.
Flat ears not flacears.
Eesh
dinner in china...
Yup. It is not that uncommon anymore.
They call them coydogs round abouts.
Couldn’t you put your poor ol’ schnauzer in some classier digs so he wouldn’t have anything to howl about? I did break one of my dogs from howling at the coyotes by rigging a water bucket over his house, which he got on top of to howl, and pulling a jerk-string whenever he lit it up. He filed a complaint but he quit talking to the coyotes.
Thank you for posting this story.
Such sad, sad eyes on this poor, neglected, baby. 😢
I hope he/she will find a caring forever home. ❤
It’s a dog. Snout is too long for coyote.
He DOES look a b it like Wile E. Coyote though...
Take the fur coat of most familiar dog breeds, and you wouldn’t recognize them.
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Several years ago there was some sort of mange that stripped the coats off a local black bears, and when seen occasionally on the side of old country roads really freaked out anyone who happened to see one.
Hungry Coywolf pup with the mange ?
We had what everyone thought was a coyote roaming a neighborhood here. When they finally caught it it was an abandoned dog eaten up with mange.
Escaped from Plum Island? [Scheduled for Shutdown in 2023]
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