It's a good thing her mother was home at the time.
Police are looking for a man wanted for criminal harassment, after a 13-year-old girl was chased into her backyard in the Lawrence and Mount Pleasant area on Tuesday.
Cops say the girl was walking her dog around 7:45 on Tuesday morning, when a man started to follow her.
She picked up the pace and returned to her home through the backyard, telling her mother when she walked inside.
The man followed, but ran off when he was confronted by the mom.
The man is described as white, 20 to 25, with brown hair, and a goatee. He was wearing a black hoodie with white on the front, and black pants.