According to our sister station, Fox 21, in Colorado Springs, it happened on Thanksgiving afternoon in a neighborhood south of the Air Force Academy. Witnesses reported that the girl was with another child and approached the coyote, crouched behind a tree, believing it was a dog.

Colorado wildlife officials are hunting for a coyote that attacked and injured a four-year-old girl on Thanksgiving. The attack occurred on Thursday afternoon in a neighborhood east of Monument Creek – close to the Air Force Academy – in northern Colorado Springs, a Colorado Parks and Wildlife said on Saturday.

A coyote lunged at a 4-year-old girl in Colorado Springs on Thanksgiving, hospitalizing her. Now Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers say they will kill any coyote they find in the area of that attack.