A home surveillance camera captured a frightening moment last week when a coyote attacked a toddler in the backyard of a home in Ontario, Canada.
A couple with their 5-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter were returning to their Aurora home after dinner when the incident occurred, according to CP24.
The video shows the coyote checking things out and disappearing into the neighbor’s backyard before the children come onto the scene, running to check out a newly planted tree.
As the girl runs toward the tree, the coyote sees the toddler as fleeing prey and gives chase. In a flash, the coyote grabs the girl and knocks her to the ground before running off. The boy turns and runs as the parents come to her aid and scare off the coyote.
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“She’s fine, she just has a very superficial lesion on her body, but she is frightened,” the unidentified mother told CP24.
“At first she was very scared. After the incident happened she did not talk for about an hour. She didn’t see too much that happened, she just knew she was attacked.”
The mother told CP24 the coyote saw her son first but probably thought him too big to attack and went for her daughter, thinking she was the perfect size.
The girl was taken to two different doctors to determine whether she needed to be vaccinated and neither thought the contact warranted such measures, according to the mother.
Generic photo of coyote courtesy of Tom Koerner/USFWS.
