u/Conscious-Result-798

I have a 8 month old chow chow and was walking him around 1am, I live right on the beach in Florida and was walking along A1A when I look behind me I see a coyote about 20 yards out stalking us. I’ve never seen a coyote in my life and are no common in this area, so I kept eye contact and just started walking towards my building but this coyote kept picking up its pace until it got around 10 yards from I I just took off running towards my building and this coyote was relentless & started jogging with us. By the time I reached my gate and shut it, it was about 5-10 feet from us. Close call. Is this common? Everything I’ve read tells me they don’t do stuff like this & I see I should’ve started yelling at it. Well now I know.