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A tT LEAST a dozen ‘iets have vanished in the night in the
past month from homes-located near the Capilano Golf. and:
Country Club in West Vancouver. Pe ge

Residents: fear .coyotes in

“s About two weeks ago my hus-

Pup ae 335 ami:

10 the sound ofa most terrible ¢ry+
ng. Something. was being: killed:

“Phere-was a couple of minutes:
/isilenee and then.a-coyote howled,’”’
resident Ann

aid Hidhirst Place
risby. :
“Two weeks later Sebastian, ‘her

20-pound, orange ‘marmalade: 13-

oy year-old cat, Sisappeared overnight _
Aug. tec

Frisby’s

‘She'said: she contacted the golf

“course the’: following: Monday and
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the:
trea have turned their. pets into ay

: home isa putter-shot :
“away from the 10th fairway of the
“golf course. :

By MICHAEL BECKER
News Reporter

homeowners: fiving adjacent-to the .

golf course’ -on’ Hadden: Drive
disappeared sins June: The resident
said neighbors across the street had
a Siamese cat vanish recently.”
“‘These | poor. cats -are . totally
domesticated... They’re ‘not equip-
ped: to fight off wild animals,’’
Frisby said. :
Said golf course ‘superintendent 7
Dave. Sullivan:-“¢ We're: up in: the *
mountains. and~. coyotes”. move?”
through. the |‘ property “once, in a
while, but we have more problems
with dogs running. loose. | it

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“my. husband and I woke: up. at

to the sound of a most

terrible crying: Something was.
being killed. There
Of minutes silence. and. then a.

coyote howled. ”

aA a Raat weiner CN ENSUE eal

was told bya Ereenskeeper ihat she’:
candia fellow, employee had beaten
attacking an.

off two ‘coyotes
“orange cat.on the:Sunday morning.
The © ‘greenskeeper placed : the
body of the mauled cat in a.wood-
ved area nearb

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A coyote returned.
the corpse later in the™

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coyotes.’ : :

But ‘according ‘to Ministry * of
Environment. and: Parks conserva-
Mark’ Hayden, © the
North’, Shore» supports ‘a healthy
of. coyotes.” .He
estimates <approximately ' 5,000
coyotes live throughout the entire
Lower Fraser Valley area.

“They :tend .to feed on smaller
rodents. Bu mall ‘dogs. and cats :
can:be regarded asa potential food 4
said: Hay den. : °

said although Coyotes don’ t
like ta ‘be: too close’ to “man, the:
nocturnal animal tends to remain
in “an area: year: round: as jong.as:

“there is an adequate ‘food. supp,

- Covote: are’ opportunist.
They"! gos for. what:
eat. People should keep their: pets
inside. or itt a “fenced:

might, Hayden Said."

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