Colorado communities are thinking about the presence of coyotes after an incident in Colorado Springs that left a 4-year-old girl hospitalized on Thanksgiving Day.

According to our sister station, Fox 21, in Colorado Springs, it happened on Thanksgiving afternoon in a neighborhood south of the Air Force Academy. Witnesses reported that the girl was with another child and approached the coyote, crouched behind a tree, believing it was a dog.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers and partner agencies plan to kill coyotes they find in northern Colorado Springs as they pursue a coyote that attacked a four-year-old girl on Thanksgiving Day. Since identifying the exact coyote who attacked the little girl is impossible,