Live news: it's full of surprises. Including ... mysterious animals?

Morgan Saxton, a broadcast journalist for KUTV in Salt Lake City, Utah, kept on reporting even when an unexpected animal entered the camera frame. "What you're seeing is actually a dog coming into our live shot," she said with a calmness to which we cannot relate.
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it's a dog," she added. "I'm not sure."
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think it was a dog at all. On a version of the clip uploaded to YouTube, most commenters seemed to think it was either a cougar or a coyote, neither of which are optimal on-camera guests. Luckily, it ignored her and sauntered out of frame. 。

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After the incident, the plot thickened further. Saxton consulted with the Utah Department of Wildlife Resources, which concluded based on footprints that the creature had, in fact, been a dog.。

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Then, the owner of the dog came forward to confirm -- and also provided a nice photo as proof. It's always nice when the answer to a mystery is also extremely cute.
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