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Wild coyote mauls and critically injures defenceless toddler, two, in porch attack
The Dallas Morning News last night that his son had undergone several hours of surgery and is now in stable condition.The attack happened early on Tuesday (May 3). Coyotes rarely attack humans but locals say that animals had been coming closer to their homes over recent months and they suspect that some people in the area had been feeding them.One local resident, Shery Harrison described how a coyote had attacked her dog a few weeks ago.She says she was watering her garden when she saw what she first took to be to be a sick dog walking down the street.“And then I said: ‘Wait, that’s not a dog,’” and turned her garden hose on the animal, which started walking away.But then her little Pomeranian, Marshmallow, ran towards the coyote: “She ran after it, and it literally grabbed her, shook her and took off running."Her neighbour Heather Duge says that locals had been trying to raise the alarm about the presence of coyotes in the area for quite some time: “The warnings were there for a long time, and we are just heartbroken about this little child.
