A toddler is small enough to appear to be prey to a coyote. Watch not just your pets when coyotes are around, but small children.
Snoqualmie is very rural - so the coyote was in it’s natural habitat. Heck - we are in the suburbs of Seattle and we have coyotes - although I’ve only seen them late at night (1 am) or early morning (5 am). And the neighbors wonder why their cats that they let outside go missing.
I wonder how much their numbers have gone up since they made trapping illegal in Washington State (that’s been perhaps 10 years or more now I suppose).
As another poster said - I think a large dog would provide a good warning.
Here in my suburban neighborhood that was built in a former forest one of my neighbors was walking her small dog when a coyote grabbed and ran off with it. How horrifying this had to be.