A woman was bitten by a coyote as she tried to pry her dog out of its mouth in Washington, wildlife officials said. She saw the animal in her backyard Oct. 18 in Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood, the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife said in a news release.

The incident came a week after a coyote attacked a dog in Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood. The coyote attacked the dog in a backyard and ran down the street with the dog in its mouth. The dog's owners chased the coyote and got it to drop the dog after honking their horn and shining bright lights on it.

As the woman tried to fight off the coyote and rescue her dog, she was bitten on one of her arms and her head.

The woman saw the coyote was in her backyard and had her cat in its mouth when she tried to free her pet. SEATTLE — A Seattle woman was bitten by a coyote Friday when she tried to rescue her cat from its jaws.