LAKE ARROWHEAD, Calif. — 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 towards a street. She ran towards 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, although her injuries were not life-threatening.
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.
Alterra Park is near Chino Hills State Park, a natural open space of thousands of acres spanning nearly 31 miles.
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“Help! A coyote took my baby” doesn’t have the same resonance.
HG
shades of Uluru, 1980…
bad summer for coyote food in California, or just a lot more coyotes than normal?
and also, why fly the baby to a major city hospital if it’s not badly injured? what a waste of money. no wonder health insurance costs so much in the USA.
The fucking thing grabbed her by the head and neck and tried to drag her away. Would you suggest a little bag of many pills and a white sticky patch?
You said it eats the baby!
It didn’t eat the baby!
You innacurate titler!
And you’re a wishful thinker.
couple of stitches, shot of floxacillin, and some rifampicin pills for the next week. babies are incredibly tough: bet it won’t even leave a scar.
don’t forget, we Aussies have a lot of experience at this kind of thing
but i foresee a spate of sudden unidentified coyote deaths in the area over the next season. unidentified, unless they run toxicology tests on the carcasses. cyanide meatballs, anyone?
You said there was a roadrunner!
There’s no roadrunner!
I bet he’s not really called Sam either. Probably Trevor or something, but they changed it to sound more macho.
funny thing is, inside the box there’s just a stack of pictures of chicken wings, drawn on cels. real cartoon food!
looney tunes indeed.
