CCTV footage captured the dramatic moment a coyote chased a little girl through her backyard.
Charlie Schmidt was working outside his home in Portland, Oregon, when his 4-year-old daughter started running around the yard.
His children and a neighbor were playing together when his daughter said ‘dad, there’s a coyote.’
The girl jumped on a table to get away from the animal before her father shouted an insult and ran towards her.
Schmidt then sprang into action, grabbing his daughter and picking her up before telling everyone to come inside.
Charlie Schmidt was working outside his home in Portland, Oregon, when his 4-year-old daughter fled from the coyote.
Schmidt told KGW, a local news station in Portland, that it was “abnormal” for animals to chase children.
One of the other children can be heard yelling, “There’s a coyote, get in quick.”
Then the father disappears from sight with his daughter in his arms. No one was injured during the incident.
Schmidt told KGW, a local news station in Portland, that it was “a little abnormal” for coyotes to chase children. However, he said they are a common sight in his neighborhood.