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TUCSON, Ariz. — You never think it'll happen to you until it does. One Eastside family and their dog had quite the scare recently when a coyote snuck into their backyard and attacked their chihuahua. Ryan Snowden , Trudi 's owner, ran to his 9-year-old chihuahua's rescue in the early morning around 7:30 a.m. after hearing his very quiet dog 'screamed' like never before."I came out some back doors over here to find her in the jaws of the coyote," Snowden said.
"I think with the combination of Trudi bucking around a little bit and me screaming and running," explained Snowden."Trudi did get loose, and it just went right up over that fence.""If you think of the size of a German shepherd and add another one to it," Snowden described the coyote he saw that day."I saw the muscles in its leg and it was pretty large."
"Trudi's doing pretty well now," Snowden confirmed."She gets her stitches out tomorrow and she's starting to come back around; for a while she wouldn't want to come out here at all."
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