DARTMOUTH, Mass. (WPRI) — A Dartmouth woman claims she was attacked by a rabid coyote over the weekend.

 

Kathy Normore told 12 News she was walking to her mailbox Saturday afternoon when the coyote emerged from a nearby patch of tall grass.

 

Before Normore could react, the coyote lunged forward and bit her.

 

“It just latched onto my arm,” Normore recalled, adding that she believed the coyote had been stalking her. “It was instantaneous.”

 

Normore said the coyote took off and she hasn’t seen it since, but she’s worried it will return.

 

“I’m very nervous,” Normore said. “I didn’t leave my house for two days.”