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A two-year-old girl from Woodland Hills was attacked by a coyote last week, and the entire incident was captured on a nearby surveillance camera. According to KTLA, Shira and Ariel Eliyahuo had just picked their daughter up from preschool. They parked in their driveway, lifted the child out of her car seat, and let her stand beside them in the driveway while they gathered her toys from inside of the car. In "a matter of seconds" a coyote came up beside the car and bit the toddler's leg.
“For a second, he just turned inside the car and he just heard her screaming and he didn’t see the coyote, he thought she fell,” Shira told KTLA. “So he ran over and he saw the coyote.”
Video footage shows the animal drag the child down the sidewalk. Ariel quickly throws a rock at the coyote, and it eventually runs away from the house.
“She has a lot of scratches on her left leg and one of them is really deep,” Shira detailed. “We had to go to the ER. We had to get her rabies shots. The coyote just kind of dragged her so her face is also a little bit bruised.” The family told KTLA that this is not the first time that they have seen coyotes lurking around their neighborhood. They hope that the shocking event will spur greater animal security for the area.