A ten-pound Maltese, with nerves of a German shepherd K9 officer, saved his little brother by chasing off a coyote in their Mission Viejo backyard. The coyote already had the smaller pup is its mouth.
David and Erin Mascaluso, the owners of the two dogs caught the scary scene on their home surveillance camera earlier this month. The hero pup, named Vinny, is 11-years-old, has only three teeth, but in all reality, this pooch should be wearing a Superman cape; everyone is impressed!
The video captures the incident where the coyote is spotted jumping the fence and chasing Vinny’s brother, Harley into a corner. Harley started to yelp out in fear, and within seconds, Vinny can be seen running across the yard and chasing the coyote away, while Harley runs off in the other direction.
The video also captured sight of another coyote on the other side of the fence during the attack. Harley suffered two lacerations on his upper back and one on his chest. He did receive some stitches, and apparently had Vinny not interjected his scrappiness and determination to look in the mirror and see a Rottweiler’s reflection, Vinny may not have survived.
Check out the video:
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Very lucky puppies to have both escaped from the vicious coyote!!! I grew up in “wild animal territory” and knew of lots of families who had cats (mostly) and dogs who were killed by coyotes, cougars, birds of prey and bears. We had very strict rules for our pets (& thankfully we didn’t lose any of them to predators).
I think these furbabies and their family were very lucky this time. If those two precious little treasures were my furbabies, I would NEVER allow them to be outside alone and would avoid dawn and dusk for going outside with my furbabies on short leashes (3’ or 4’).