Ma. Woman Describes ‘Scary’ Coyote Attack in Her Driveway: ‘It Just Had Me Trapped'

“It kept jumping at my car. I put my window up and started blowing my horn to try and scare it away," shared the Massachusetts woman

A Massachusetts woman is detailing a recent attack by a coyote while she was in her car.

Robin Totman explained that as she was pulling into her driveway in her rural neighborhood of Stoughton, Massachusetts, a coyote attacked her as she was leaving the car.

"It was scary. There was definitely something wrong with the animal. I am not an expert, but you could tell maybe it was rabid," Totman told CBS News Boston.

“I had the window down and the coyote came running at the car and jumped towards the window,” Totman told The Enterprise. “It kept jumping at my car. I put my window up and started blowing my horn to try and scare it away.”

Totman explained she tried to defuse the situation by scaring the animal to leave. "I tried to beep my horn to try, you know, to get it to go away or whatever, and really, it wouldn't go anywhere. It just had me trapped," she said. 

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Totman told CBS News Boston she remained trapped in her car for around 15 minutes while the coyote stayed in the vicinity. Totman unaware of how to proceed knew she couldn't safely exit her car, especially as the coyote stayed close.

“It just kept running back and forth," she said. "It ran to the door; it ran to the car; it scratched back up again.”

While she remained in her car she called her husband to notify him that she was trapped in her car due to the wild animal.

Fifteen minutes later, another animal in the nearby woods distracted the coyote from Totman, and she was able to safely run into her home.

Totman remains concerned due to her 11-year-old son’s frequency in the driveway. "It was scary. I mean, I didn't know what to do," she said. "That was the main thing. I never encountered anything like that before.”

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Totman reported the incident to the Stoughton Police Department and shared the story in a neighborhood Facebook group to warn other residents of the coyote’s presence.

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Dave Wattles, a black bear and furbearer biologist for the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, explained there has been “a recent uptick” of rabid coyote incidents due to a “high density of coyotes throughout [Mass.],” per The Enterprise.

Wattles added he believes the coyote Totman encountered was rabid.

"That kind of real aggression where it is kind of, it's going after, you know - whether it's her,  the car, it's difficult to say - but with real fervor and aggression. That's an indication that that was a rabid animal," he told The Enterprise.

The Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife notes that to prevent an altercation with a coyote, residents should remove food sources, protect pets, eliminate shelter, and haze coyotes — which includes waving your arms or clapping towards the coyote, making loud noises, spraying a hose or throwing small objects in the coyote's direction.

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