Calgary woman encounters aggressive coyote, warns community: "It just kept coming at us"

After an aggressive coyote encounter a week ago, Tanya Barkley says she can’t quite overcome her fear and still hasn’t taken her four-year-old Cavalier King Charles spaniel Lilly for a morning walk.

“It just kept coming at us no matter what I did, and that’s why I ran to my house. I was thankful that I was close enough (to home),” she told Global News. Barkley said she was up early, taking Lilly for the morning ritual at 4:30 a.m. on March 14.

“I let her do her business and kind of turned around I saw these dogs. I looked and those are coyotes, but they were large coyotes.”

One of the coyotes immediately turned and began following them. Barkley made a beeline to her front door a few metres away.

“I started yelling at it and it started to pick up pace,” she said. “And I started yelling and waving my arms a little bit more and I ran up my stairs, and the coyote ran up the stairs behind me and I literally slammed the door in its face.”

Once she regained her breath, she went to work and dialled 311 to report the aggressive encounter. But she wasn’t happy with the response.

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