On September 24, Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee’s dog Neena got attacked by a coyote.
“Trigger warning: I was letting the dogs out to pee and I was watching them and a coyote came and grabbed Neena in broad daylight,” Lee wrote in text shared before a video of the moment on Instagram. “Please be very careful with your dogs. I’ve lived here for four years and I’ve never seen one coyote and then today this happened. They are desperate,” he added in the text.
Lee’s wife Brittany Furlan successfully saved the dog. “Neena is safe. I climbed up the wall and grabbed her out of its mouth,” Furlan wrote in a separate post. “Thank God she’s a little bit fat because he couldn’t make it over the wall with her. If it was teenie she would’ve been gone. This is in Broad daylight at 1 PM. They are getting more brazen and hungry. Please be safe. I’m not even letting the dogs out anymore. This is ridiculous. Hug your babies extra tight.”
Furlan told KNBC’s NBC 4 Los Angeles that the coyote grabbed their 10-year-old dog at their home in San Fernando Valley, California. The outlet reported that the couple’s other dog, Teenie, managed to run away.
“You know, we get lazy and we go ‘It’s okay, it’s 1 o’clock in the afternoon, nothing’s going to happen,’ and this is what happens. Sometimes you get too comfortable and I was standing at the doorway, thank God I always watch them,” she said.
Furlan said she thought the coyote was the neighbor’s dog that had escaped before realizing what it was.
“This all happened so quickly,” she said, adding that their wall was 10 feet high and that she had lived in the home for four years without ever seeing a coyote in the backyard.