While a Pennslyvania woman from Fairfield Township has received thanks for recently saving a mysterious animal, wildlife experts don’t know what the animal actually is.
“I wasn’t quite sure but its behavior, it was scared, and it was cold and all I could think about was this animal needed help,” said Christina Eyth who saw paw prints outside her door, according to CNN via WPXI.
“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,” she added.
Eyth couldn’t figure out what the animal is herself. So she gently persuaded the animal into her basement, while waiting for TJ’s Rescue Hideaway.
“It’s definitely a coyote, no it’s a dog, so with there being so much question, that’s whenever they got the wildlife officials involved.”
Even Morgan Barron, a trained wildlife rehabilitator for Wildlife Works, can’t figure out the animal.
“They transported it here and I honestly can’t definitively say what it is, but to err on the side of caution, since they can carry rabies, and since it might be a coyote, we can keep it here, get genetic testing done, and go from there,” Barron said.
While the animal is said to be “very timid, very scared and not aggressive at all,” it’s being treated for mange and is being genetically tested. The testing could take two to four weeks for results.
View the animal for yourself here.
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