Comedian Brittany Furlan snatched her dog from the jaws of a coyote that ran into her backyard in Woodland Hills, according to an Instagram video posted Tuesday.
Furlan, wife of Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee, posted Ring camera video showing a coyote running into her yard around 1 p.m., attacking her two dogs and grabbing her dachshund, Neena, from the side of the pool.
Furlan begins screaming and chases the coyote out of the camera's view, eventually bringing the dog back into frame. As Lee runs off, Furlan pushes Neena back in and yells, “A coyote got Neena!”
“Thank God she's a little fat because he couldn't get over the wall with her,” Furlan wrote in her post. In the video's description, Furlan said she climbed over the wall and pulled the dog out of the coyote's mouth.
“Please be very careful with your dogs,” Furlan wrote in the post. “I have lived here for four years and have never seen a coyote, and today this happened. They are desperate.”
Experts say food becomes scarcer for coyotes in the fall and neighborhood pets may seem like easy prey.
In May, a coyote entered a Simi Valley home through a dog door and attacked the family's Chihuahua.
If you are approached or attacked by a coyote, California Department of Fish and Wildlife resources recommend waving your arms, making noise and walking toward the coyote until it moves away, and avoiding leaving animals or food in your backyard overnight in residential areas.
