Coyote Drags Toddler From Front Yard

Animal Releases 2-Year-Old Girl When Mom Appears; 3rd Incident In 5 Days

(CBS/AP)  A coyote grabbed a 2-year-old girl by the head and tried to drag her from the front yard of her mountain home in the third incident of a coyote threatening a small child in Southern California in five days, authorities said.

The coyote attacked the girl around noon Tuesday when her mother, Melissa Rowley, went inside the home for a moment to put away a camera, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said in an incident report.

Rowley came out of the house and saw the coyote dragging her daughter toward a street. She ran toward her daughter, and the animal released the girl and ran away, said sheriff's spokeswoman Arden Wiltshire.

Rowley took her daughter to a hospital where the toddler was treated for several punctures to the head and neck area, and a laceration on her mouth.

She was then flown to Loma Linda University Hospital for further treatment. Her injuries were not life-threatening. She was released from the hospital Wednesday afternoon and was expected to fully recover.

State Fish and Game wardens and county animal control authorities set traps for the coyote and were monitoring the neighborhood high in the San Bernardino Mountains about 65 miles miles northeast of Los Angeles.

On Friday, a nanny pulled a 2-year-old girl from the jaws of a coyote at Alterra Park in Chino Hills, a San Bernardino County community about 30 miles east of Los Angeles. The girl suffered puncture wounds to her buttocks and was treated at a hospital.

A coyote came after another toddler in the same park Sunday. The child's father kicked and chased the coyote away.

That incident prompted Fish and Game officials to temporarily close the park, which is near Chino Hills State Park, a natural open space of thousands of acres spanning nearly 31 miles.

Across the country coyotes are moving into cities and suburbs showing up in unusual places - like the one that wandered into a Chicago sandwich shop last year, reports CBS News correspondent John Blackstone.

Blackstone reports that the advice for people who encounter coyotes in the city or anywhere else is to make plenty of noise - that should scare them away.

[blackyowe]

The coyotes are getting the message loud and clear, the humans have gone soft and there is nothing to frear.

[algoresarse]

Sharps 50-140, Sharps 50-140 3.75 inch brass

Posted by ToolMangler at 09:29 PM : May 10, 2008
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nice

[toolmangler-2009]

..what kind of rifle? what kind of load?

Posted by obamawhama at 06:26 PM : May 09, 2008



Sharps 50-140, Sharps 50-140 3.75 inch brass

[downsteamjim]

PETA is upset because with all the junk food we eat the coyote could have been poisoned.

[cfin5]

I only shoot the "bad" yotes, not the good ones. Uhm, somebody already got to those.

[obamawhama]

Posted by LeFeaoux at 12:02 AM : May 09, 2008
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get one better...ever tried to lead a team of 3 to take out a sniper?

[obamawhama]

Posted by LeFeaoux at 12:10 AM : May 09, 2008
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seeesh a simple .22 would suffice for a small fox..
btw you guys should stop shooting paper and try something a bit more challenging..try a 1000lbd rhino less than 45 yards away at full speed..what kind of rifle? what kind of load?

[bretster7]

What? Not one comment blaming this on Bush!!! I thought everything was his fault, and only a messianic democrat will solve all the ills of the world. Come on, I am sure you can blame this on Bush if you put you thinkin'' caps on and try really, really hard

[guysdigdirt]

glock4me:
you are a faaaaaag!
Posted by gce65 at 08:56 PM : May 08, 2008------

What''''s with that comment? Lip off to his face and we will see who the fancy man is.
Posted by cfin5

Well said, but I think gce65 was just trolling to see if he could rustle up a date for the weekend. gce65 seems like a clueless eunick to me.

[minnick8-2009]

I think the human population needs to be thinned out.
By Newster1

So you are back advocating in favor of thinning out the human population, yet you haven''t killed yourself yet. What is taking you so long?