Toddler reportedly attacked by coyote outside house in California in broad daylight - FOX13 Memphis

LOS ANGELES — A toddler was reportedly attacked by a coyote extracurricular her family’s location successful Los Angeles, California, connected Friday successful wide daylight.

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The 2-year-old girl’s parents, Shira and Ariel Eliyahuo, told KTLA that they had conscionable gotten location from preschool. They took their girl retired of her car spot from the car that was parked close retired beforehand of their house. As they went to cod her toys from wrong the car, a coyote ran toward their daughter, biting down connected her legs and dragging her facedown down the sidewalk.

The girl’s father, Ariel, heard her screaming and ran implicit to rescue her, yelling arsenic large arsenic imaginable to effort to scare the coyote, according to KTLA.

Ariel besides charged astatine the coyote, which caused it to merchandise their daughter, intermission for a 2nd and past tally off, according to The Associated Press.

The miss was taken to the exigency country wherever she got a rabies vaccine, according to the AP. She besides suffered immoderate scratches and bruises from the attack.

Her mother, Shira, told KTLA that she had a batch of scratches connected her near limb — immoderate of them being beauteous deep. She besides said that the girl’s look was bruised from the coyote dragging her.

Coyote sightings are communal successful immoderate Los Angeles neighborhoods but according to the AP, attacks connected radical are rare.

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