Coyotes are Highly adaptable Opportunists.
If you act like Prey their Instincts take over.
She should have been carrying, That way You are the Predator.
Can't 'carry' in Canada - open or otherwise.
don't know if pepper spray is also outlawed - but I'd want that with me...actually, a tazer too = more against two-leggeds, but whatever decides to violate my territorial imperitive