{"id":760777,"date":"2022-01-21T18:31:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T18:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/21\/watch-wildlife-rescuers-try-to-identify-mystery-animal-that-might-be-dog-or-coyote\/"},"modified":"2022-01-21T18:31:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T18:31:15","slug":"watch-wildlife-rescuers-try-to-identify-mystery-animal-that-might-be-dog-or-coyote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/21\/watch-wildlife-rescuers-try-to-identify-mystery-animal-that-might-be-dog-or-coyote\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Wildlife rescuers try to identify mystery animal that might be dog or coyote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Wildlife-rescuers-try-to-identify-mystery-animal-that-might-be-dog-or-coyote.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"4c9nRIjYuBI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mystery Animal Rescued In Pennsylvania\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4c9nRIjYuBI?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Jan. 21 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Wildlife experts in Pennsylvania said they are having genetic testing done to identify a mystery animal that might be a dog or a coyote.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8212; a small, dog-like animal curled up outside her basement door.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I peeked outside the door, and that&#8217;s whenever I noticed the animal on the left hand side. And it was so scared and cold and shivering,&#8221; Eyth told WPXI-TV.<\/p>\n<p>Eyth said she wasn&#8217;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&#8217;s Rescue Hideaway.<\/p>\n<p>TJ&#8217;s contacted WildLife Works Mount Pleasant, which sent rescuer Morgan Barron to Eyth&#8217;s home.<\/p>\n<p>Wildlife Works said in a Facebook post that the group is having genetic testing done on the animal to determine its species.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Behavior-wise, he&#8217;s very timid, very scared and not aggressive at all, which makes me lean toward dog,&#8221; Barron said.<\/p>\n<p>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.\n<\/p>\n<p>Eyth said she was happy to help, regardless of whether the animal turns out to be a dog or a coyote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was an animal in need, and I feel like I did the right thing either way,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 21 (UPI) &#8212; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":760778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}