A girl was bitten on her arm and received other injuries on her leg and back in a mountain lion attack, according to California wildlife officials.

The 11-year-old girl was attending to chores with her family's chickens outside a home in Malibu, California, when she was attacked by a mountain lion.

An 11-year-old girl feeding chickens outside her Southern California home was bitten by a mountain lion, reports say. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, along with the county’s fire department, responded to a report of a child “attacked by a mountain lion,” deputies said in an Aug. 11 email to McClatchy News.