Colorado wildlife officials are hunting for a coyote that attacked and injured a four-year-old girl on Thanksgiving. The attack occurred on Thursday afternoon in a neighborhood east of Monument Creek – close to the Air Force Academy – in northern Colorado Springs, a Colorado Parks and Wildlife said on Saturday.

Witnesses said the girl was attacked in Colorado Springs when she and another child approached a coyote crouching behind a tree thinking it was a dog.

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.