‘It simply had me trapped’: Stoughton lady says coyote tried to assault her in her yard

A Stoughton lady is sharing her expertise after she says a coyote tried to assault her in her yard earlier this month. 

Robin Totman posted concerning the incident on Fb on October 3 warning fellow residents of the Highland Avenue space. 

“He was leaping up on my automotive making an attempt to get in,” she wrote. “I used to be caught in my automotive for quarter-hour unable to get out till a deer within the woods caught his consideration.”

Totman advised WBZ she’d simply pulled into her driveway and was about to get out of the automobile when the coyote tried to get at her.

“I attempted to beep my horn to attempt, you recognize, to get it to go away or no matter, and actually, it wouldn’t go anyplace. It simply had me trapped,” she advised the station. “I attempted to rush up and put the window up. And it simply saved working forwards and backwards. It ran to the door; it ran to the automotive; it scratched again up once more.” 

Totman mentioned she referred to as her husband and advised him she was trapped in her automotive, based on WBZ. She mentioned the coyote ran after a wild turkey and deer within the neighbor’s yard, chasing them into the woods. 

“It was scary. I imply, I didn’t know what to do. That was the primary factor. I by no means encountered something like that earlier than,” she mentioned.

Totman advised the Brockton Enterprise that she and her household have determined to hold pepper spray after the incident. 

MassWildlife‘s black bear and furbearer biologist Dave Wattles advised WBZ he believes Totman had an encounter with a coyote that was rabid. 

“That type of actual aggression the place it’s type of, it’s going after, you recognize – whether or not it’s her,  the automotive, it’s troublesome to say – however with actual fervor and aggression. That’s a sign that that was a rabid animal,” he advised the station. 

He mentioned there’s been an uptick within the final 12 months or so in experiences of rabid coyote incidents.

He advised the Enterprise that Stoughton Animal Management hadn’t obtained another experiences of a coyote attacking residents within the space.

“Fortuitously, if this animal was rabid, rabies is comparatively quick performing,” Wattles advised the newspaper. “By now, the animal would have already died.”

Massachusetts officers say for those who encounter a coyote in your yard or neighborhood, to bolster the animal’s pure concern of people by making loud noises, spraying it with a hose, or tossing small objects close to it, and bodily chasing it away. 

“The aim is to scare the animal away, not harm it,” MassWildLife states on its web site. “Youngsters ought to calmly go away the world (don’t run) and discover an grownup to haze the coyote. By no means try to the touch, tame, or feed a wild animal.