What a great dog!
SHE IS A FUCKING KID!!!!!!
How in the hell does she know???? She was ignorant of what to do, yes but she was not stupid and she didn‘t bring on anything, she was attacked. The attack had to happen first before she could be ignorant about what to do and ran instead of making noise towards the animal.
Fucking victim blaming a little girl. Hope it made you feel like a big man
The little girl never stood a chance. Those techniques about facing the Coyote and appearing big and aggressive, are the correct things to do, but they only work for a full grown adult.
Coyotes are opportunity hunters. They attack based on surprise and advantage. Rarely will they attack something when they think that something can put up a good fight.
Adults offer too large of a target if the adult is acting aggressively towards the coyote.
A child just isn't big enough for it to matter what they do. A coyote will always see a child as a possibility, because they are too small to offer enough of a fight.
The only thing that saved that little girl was the little dog. To the coyote, it offered an even easier opportunity than the girl. If she had picked the dog up, or pulled it towards her and ran, it would have shifted the coyotes focus to her, and it likely would have attacked.
It is horrible to say, but the girl sacrificing the dog, be it intentionally or not, likely saved her from attack.