A Massachusetts mother was injured when a coyote charged toward her two-year-old son while they were outside their home.
Georgianna Orseno, a Weymouth resident, was playing with her two-year-old son in the middle of the day when she was bitten by the predator on her leg earlier this week.
The 29-year-old managed to push the predator off of her and escape by kicking it against a tree.
However, the attack left the young mother with bites and scratches on both of her legs.
‘This is the worst of the bites, on my ankle here. It’s bleeding through. My pants are all ripped here from the other bite,’ she told WCBV.
A camera fixed across the street showed Orseno playing with her son moments before the coyote pounced on her.
‘I think it was going for him and luckily I was in between. I think it got mad because I was shaking it off and then it latched on really deep and I had to keep kicking the tree to get it to let go’, she further told the outlet.
Orseno is now taking antibiotics and starting a series of rabies shots as treatment.
Orseno also said she was ‘just thankful’ that it was her who was bitten rather than her child.
‘It could have been a lot worse. I mean, for it being so small and just how much it latched onto my leg, I know it could have just latched right onto my son and just dragged him wherever it wanted to go. I’m just glad that I was in between them,’ she gratefully said.
Shortly after, neighbors said that the attack was ‘strange’ and ‘kind of off’.
Cynthia Karam, a nearby resident, explained: ‘He was weird. I’ve seen other coyotes crossing the street, [but] this one was kind of off.
‘It’s so scary. We have a little dog and we have three kids that are always outside when the weather is nice.’
Minutes after the vicious attack, one neighbor also noticed a coyote coming from Orseno’s yard, moving slowly and not being easily scared off.
It remains unclear where the coyote came from and whether it has been caught.
According to WCBV, officials from Animal Control were near Orseno’s property on December 18 to find the predator.
DailyMail.com has reached out to the Weymouth Police Department for more information.
Earlier this year, a South Carolina man was seen grabbing a coyote by its tail and dumping it in the trash after the wild animal tried to attack his adored chihuahua.
Timothy Snipe, dressed in a bright red robe and slippers, was taking his pint-sized pet Roxie out for a morning bathroom run in his Mount Pleasant yard on January 12 when disaster struck.
An aggressive coyote approached Snipe’s yard from a wooded area behind the house and set out to terrorize little Roxie, INSIDE revealed.
‘She started looking that way, and I still couldn’t see anything, and then boom, a coyote jumped out of that bush over there, and she took off,’ Snipe said.
A very bold and seemingly unafraid Roxie did not flee, but instead darted around the wolf-like beast while Snipe frantically tried to intervene in the attack.
Snipe heroically managed to grab the coyote by its neck and then clutched it by the tail as he marched over to a dumpster, with Roxie following closely behind.
Snipe revealed that the rabid animal bit his leg during the chaos.
After the unbelievable rescue, Snipe dropped the animal in a bright blue dumpster sitting in the yard.
The coyote didn’t give up and tried to force the lid of the trash bin open while Snipe fielded its attempts.
Snipe shot the coyote and then took it to the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control.
