They’ll stop doing this if you shoot them: The incident is just the latest in a string of coyote attacks reported in the park. Three people were attacked in one day last week, and there were at least 17 attacks between December 2020 and mid-April of this year…
The left lives in a Walt Disney world where,
kids can chose their sex ( and genital mutilation ),
parents can go to jail for refusing to let their kid chose their sex ( and genital mutilation )
illegal immigrants are not illegal,
pedophiles or trans wearing huge dildos are invited to kindergarten to teach kids about anal sex,
more should be done for the most pampered women in history ( north american women )
but leftists are also fine with ; big tall strong fast burly men who identify as women can compete as women, and women will never ever win a medal at any sport anymore.
BLM and Antifa burning down easily over 500 hundred buildings and beating to death business owners is not violence but Trump supporter walking into a building where they were invited in by the security guards makes them worse than muslim terrorists
Verifying votes is a crime but stealing an election is ok as long as a leftist does it.
The FBI can lie, cheat and spy and buy fake dossier as long as they do it to destroy conservatives
This is barely the tip of the tip of the iceberg.
The actual list is about 300 pages long.
So yes the idea that coyotes are as cuddly as kittens is pretty much something that can only exist in a leftist world
Leftism is insanity.
and more everyday.
I consider it my personal duty to try to kill every coyote I can legally waste. It thins the population and makes them fear humans. I shoot at bears too but don’t try to hit them because I don’t want hundreds of pounds of rotting meat.
Near my brother’s place in a suburb just outside Toronto there’s Missin Cats/Dogs signs on seemingly every community mailbox and lamp post. There are coyote sightings on a daily basis in the parks and trails so it’s either them or the recent influx of wealthy Chinese, I’m still undecided.
I’m glad I live out in the bush where the farmers will gladly eliminate the coyote problem.
Is it legal in Canada to carry a machete? It might be a good idea to have one on hand if walking in that park.
Nothing is legal in Canada. Carrying a machete or even a knife in a city would likely get you arrested.
The local RCMP told my Son, who openly carries a huge bowie-style knife that it was okay as long as the purpose is for self defence against animals.The cop said if it was for self defence against humans, he would confiscate the knife. Son said it was to protect himself from vicious dogs, the cop said “okay” and drove away.
Remind your son that RCMP are police; not lawyers. He’d be well advised to search out actual law on that matter than take the word of an enforcement officer.
I think it is illegal in Canada to defend yourself in any way with any thing.
It’s not. It’s just illegal to carry a thing for the purpose of defending yourself against a person, and/or plan or prepare to use it. I think the point of the Mountie’s information to don morris’s son was that he can carry his knife for the purpose of defending against an animal, but he must not intend to use it to defend himself against a person (until a person, quite unexpectedly, actually attacks him, then he can improvise with what may come to hand – “oh,hey, I happen to have this thing…” Do not put a police officer in the position of having to arrest you for being armed for self-defence against people, just be equipped for some other purpose.
It’s not illegal to carry a machete, unless the police decide you are carrying a weapon. It’s illegal to destroy property, e.g. by burning, unless the politicians tell the police to let you do it because you are just protesting.
Just have the city send in a couple of Road Runners. That’ll keep the Coyotes busy falling off cliffs and so on.
Ahhhh … aren’t Coyotes sooooo cute!? Go ahead, honey, pet the cute coyote.
Yeah … Disney is a killer. Just ask Timothy Treadwell and his ex-girlfriend. Ex … as I believe she dumped him while being mauled to death by his “named” bears.
Oh, sure, it’s all fun and games until an anvil falls on a protected species….
I hate to be so picky, but just to be clear, Road Runner was not a Disney product. But yes, that would be humane and entertaining resolution.
My place is absolutely thick with coyotes lately which fuels my wife’s “coyote anxiety” like nothing else. They’ve lost their fear and I’m convinced it’s because the guy who lives down the road has retired and doesn’t run his hounds anymore.
Everyone but me gets into his grill about the ethics of it all but that’ll end when “Muffin” gets swiped from their backyard.
The coyotes are indigenous to Stanley Park. Its understandable that they’d try to eat the toddlers, after whitey took their land.
Sheesh!
Reparation for Coyotes I say …. and Wiley Coyote for Governor General.
Snort!
The thing most people fail to understand is that a coyote that is afraid of people is good for people and coyotes. A coyote that knows to run away from humans will be safe from humans and humans will be safe from being bitten by a human-fearing coyote.
One of my uncles used to keep us busy when visiting their ranch by giving us two rifles, a box of .22s and his oldest truck. The instructions were : “go shoot gophers”, “shoot at the coyotes and foxes”, “stay away from any badgers” and, of course, “don’t shoot any of my cows”.
The coyotes knew what to do. They’d watch us until we stopped the truck and then they’d run like hell. Not going to say how young we were when everyone decided we were old enough to be allowed to do this unsupervised.
Growing up hell and gone from town was refreshing. From the time I was 12 we packed guns when wandering through bush and fields. More amazing was that we often walked miles through the bush without guns because the animals all feared people. Things like coyotes, bears and cougars were killed instantly when they showed up. Coyotes bred like flies. There was always an old vehicle around without plates to drive from farm to farm. For trips further from home, my cousin had a Massey 35 tractor that went like hell. Sat one on the seat and one on the fender. 50 years later and I still don’t think I’ve ever seen a cop around the farm where I grew up. We never ever needed them.
I forgot to mention that it wasn’t reckless or dangerous. Most prairie kids were taught firearm safety at home and, later, sent to firearm safety courses.
My uncles and dad took us along with them for years before we were allowed to go out alone. When I was really young, I was allowed to tag along but I was restricted to reloading clips for them.
As long as you didn’t shoot your eye out, it’s fine.
I prefer coyotes over babies of crazy lefties. Ooops, did I say that in my outloud voice?
It is a terrible accident and I actually wouldn’t wish it on any child no matter how stupid/crazy the parents.
The city should be having the coyotes put down or at least relocated.
I need to carry a gun for the crazed lefties more than a random coyote. But I never said that.
A friend who has a small farm up North raises chickens and has a hell of a time with coyotes. He is a lousy shot unfortunately and only has a .22 rifle. A couple of years back while driving out to his farm I noticed a coyote in a field limping. I described this to Buddy who said,”that’s probably the sob I shot a few days ago, hit it in the hind leg”.
The coyote still came back to his place and stole chickens even though Buddy had shot it, owned a dog, and the damned thing still occasionally swiped a wandering chicken. Finally a neighbour who was a better shot killed it when it came into their yard to take a chicken.
The little buggers are tenacious,if there’s easy pickin’s they much prefer them to mice.
I was raised in bush country hunted from the time I was 8 years old,my Dad was a trapper and expert shot/hunter. But there is no one who knows more about wild animals than a University of Victoria wildlife biologist or the average citizen of Vancouver or Victoria. To the parents of the kid, carry a folding baton,they’re cheap and effective.
“To the parents of the kid, carry a folding baton,”
Not allowed in Canada.
Fred, Incorrect, I bought one, a collapsing baton in Red Deer a few years back, and my step daughter up in Fort St John, now has it. The point as mentioned above, is, needing it for a purpose other than defending against, or attacking, for that matter, another human. Of course, if that is what first comes to hand, when some miscreant decides to kill you, then it’s OK to use it.
Carry an axe handle or get a real dog and not one of those fluffy purse dogs ffs unless you want to feed them.
JRT can do both – but it’s more of a Terrier Bag than a purse.
https://terriermandotcom.blogspot.com/2019/05/terrier-bags-on-horses.html?m=1
“According to the Conservation Officer Service (COS), the little girl was with a group of adults and children walking near the Vancouver Aquarium when the animal suddenly jumped on her.”
how did said animal get close to the group of adults and children that it was close enough to jump on the 2 year old?
what were the parents doing?
JD; Stanley Park is a natural forest (for the most part). The trails are decently wide but then you’re into heavy underbrush, usually on both sides. If a coyote doesn’t want to be seen, it won’t be. Having said that, several of the attacks on adult runners have occurred along the Stanley Park seawall…very brazen on the coyotes part!
These forest trail attacks aren’t limited to Stanley Park either; we have them up here on the Sunshine coast, but so far they’ve been limited to dogs being walked, or at least I haven’t heard of any kids being attacked…yet.
All the local parks and trails have warning signs about the problem.
https://stanleyparkvan.com/photos2/stanley-park-van-05587-bridle.jpg
I’m amazed that coyotes would do that. Out here on the prairie a coyote would never do that. Out here they are real shy and you rarely see one; mind you here we feed em a regular diet of attitude adjustment pills made from lead.
Dan, I live at the top of the Sunshine coast, and in 39 years here, I have never seen a coyote. I’ve seen em elsewhere in BC, but not up here.
What is the color and gender identity of the victim?
Is the coyote racist or transphobic?
What is the coyote’s gender?
Important questions.
Soft living = soft head = soft heart = soft (tender) meat.
Jamie, Yup!
I’m in west central AB visiting and took the paisanos for a walk last nite. I’m in the country but it’s residential. An uncut hay field is where we were walking.
We hadn’t gone 100yds when the dogs lit it up. Something had crossed the trail very recently and the dogs were interested. I thought deer but almost immediately a buck coyote let fly with a challenge bark. He was a150 yards away with at least one pup. The dogs looked at him and we carried on.
The coyote trailed us getting closer and closer all the while challenge barking.
Finally the 3 paisanos had enough of this crap and they took after him. He hadn’t expected this and they built right too him before he hit the bush with Shot Jackson right on his ass.
I suspect he will have a limited life expectancy as everyone around here is packing.
Ab, Of course you would be packing, ….a lunch, right?
My wife has us camping a lot lately, and I tell you, I’ve come to the opinion that negative interactions with all sorts of wildlife would happen a lot less if people were encouraged to carry long guns around in the bush…or short ones in the city.
Several years ago a fellow called me to help him out. Wolves had killed 2 of his heifers overnight and he was wondering if I would go over and hunt them down before they killed the rest of his herd.
A couple of months earlier we were talking about having a gun out in the country and he had told me that it wasn’t really necessary. He had bought a donkey and put it in the field with his cattle … supposedly the best anti-wolf/coylote medicine a fellow could get.
So I asked him, ‘Where was your *&^%$#g guard donkey, on strike?” “No. Looks like they killed him first.”
Well, guess you better get a gun now, was my reply.
I have not read any comments on this thread,however, i have been up close and personal with three Coyote interactions in the last year.
They are big dogs that are afraid of humans.
This took place in Mississauga On. about 5am.
They did scare the shit out of me and i was prepared for a fight.
They did however just Lope along and ignored me.
Conservation officers found an ACME portable picnic set in the woods near the scene. They’ll find him.
When you protect them from being hunted the most successful are those without fear of humans. They will find food associated with humans, you don’t necessarily have to feed them directly. You end up breeding offspring without fear. it is the same with bears. At least that is my theory.
Spot on, Concerned.
A lot of people here put a spare freezer or fridge out in their carport, stocked with stuff like frozen salmon etc. Then they’re surprised when the bears rip it open. How dumb is that?
Back in the day, were out tenting with family at a nice SE British Columbia campsite. We awoke in the night to see a couple of bear cubs rummaging through one of our coolers (the styrofoam one). We kept very still and the cubs wandered off. The next day, park people came around and we showed them the destroyed cooler. Their response was to the effect of “you should keep you food in the car trunk”. Spouse’s response was that 1) where he worked, there were no trunks as in usually fly-in camps; and 2) given the parks people knew the cubs were around, they should have warned those of us who were tenting.
Needless to say, we didn’t go back to that campground again.
In a rural part of the L Mainland here. For quite a while the local relevant authorities have been giving out an ‘informative’ pamphlet on ‘learning to coexist with your wild neighbours’ instead of tracking and eliminating coyotes. Exceptions being cases like these or if a ‘yote takes your small animal while the latter is on a leash(!) Especially f-ed up given that the species is not native to the area: they’ve moved into and in fact, thrive in urban environments. Hopefully they soon develop an unquenchable hunger for the flesh of the Yellow-Bellied Yaletown Hipster.
We have tons of coyotes around me in rural Manitoba. It is common place to hear them singing at night and sounding right near by. We have never had any issues with them because most of us around here shoot them on sight. Coyotes are smart, resilient and adaptable creatures. They know exactly what a human with a shotgun means, even if the human has left it in the truck on a rack for now. Same with bears.
You can hear coyotes howling and yipping every night anywhere in Edmonton near the river, including (especially) right next to downtown. I kinda like it. Sounds cool. Any coyote that gets close enough to me gets a boot to the head.
You would think an attacked child’s parent would be so wound up on adrenaline that any coyote would be stomped to death promptly.
The Coyotes in Calgary feed on rabbits on my patio for years, wander up the park path behind my house in broad daylight. I’ve seen them around schools in this city in broad daylight. People don’t even notice them. Rummage around my yard at night and smile for the critter cams. Most people out walking their dogs are oblivious to what is going on around them and most could not identify a “loose dog” as an actual Coyote. I’ve seen it happen. Probably wouldn’t even notice their presence. Most people are too focused on their phones to notice anything at all around them, even people.
Carry a slingshot and some ball bearings. One shot in the ribs and those ‘tough’ urban song dogs will start showing some respect.
There is an easy solution to this problem where no one gets hurt.
Put up signs saying its illegal for coyotes to attack humans or pets.
Then bring in a bylaw to make it illegal for coyotes to attack humans.
That’ll show them damn coyotes.
Horny, Perleese, don’t give our political idiots any thoughts like that, they’re likely to think it’s a cool idea!
Huh.
Was in Stanley Park early afternoon Monday. At the aquarium. Saw a couple tree rats but no howly dogs.