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Coyote spotted in Neville Park (Image: George Socka)
As the sun’s warmth returns, so to does the Sun’s coverage of varmints. Toronto’s dog owners might want to be on the lookout for two species that are returning to the city’s parks: coyotes, and reporters writing stories about coyotes. Today, the Sun got in its first entry of 2011, warning of the danger that the coyotes pose to dogs of the twee variety.
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The place: Dora Keogh on the Danforth. The people: singer Sarah Harmer and author Alissa York. The subject: human-animal bonding
(Image: Derek Shapton)
Torontonians are both freaked and fascinated by their run-ins with animals, whether it’s raccoons in our green bins, chihuahua-crazed coyotes in the Beach or white-tailed deer on Dundas. Alissa York, a Giller nominee for 2007’s Effigy, explores our uneasy co-habitation with urban fauna in her new novel about a ragtag bunch of animal lovers and haters in the east end. Sarah Harmer, who lives in the countryside north of Kingston, crusades to protect the Niagara Escarpment when she’s not recording music. We introduced them, bought them a round and listened in.
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Ever since Zoe the chihuahua was snatched from her yard in the Beach, the coyote has replaced Walmart as the area’s public enemy number one. To get rid of them humanely, Toronto Animal Services has employed scare tactics—paintball guns and air horns—in nearby ravines, but in the meantime, there’s no need to ban backyard fun: Zoe’s fate isn’t the norm, and unless you’re Mickey Rourke, your child probably isn’t a chihuahua. Generally speaking, coyotes approach human territory only when tempted by a food source, and even then, they aren’t likely to attack . The closest Toronto has come to coyote-human combat was in 2003, when an animal nipped four people in two North York parks. In that case, a local had been feeding the coyote cooked chicken. Understandably, the hungry canine was peeved to discover not all park-goers are packing poultry.
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