Chicago Coyote: Urban Attacks Are Rare, but Frightening – The New York Times

A coyote attacked a 5-year-old boy near the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in Chicago on Wednesday, sending him to the hospital.

He was in stable condition, the Chicago Fire Department reported.

Later that day, a coyote bit an adult man on the buttocks, according to news accounts. The man showed up at another Chicago hospital with a minor injury. Since a coyote had not been caught, it was not clear whether the same animal had assaulted both people.

via www.nytimes.com

Just ask Gandalf, our dauntless Bichon, who fought off, or in any event survived, the attack of a large coyote.