Al2 - Wednesday, February 15, 1984 - North Shore News ‘Coyotes cleaning up on our pets’ PETS, APPARENT- LY, don’t count when it comes to control of wildhfe in_ residential areas. By NEWS STAFF Doug Adolph, area conser- vation officer, said Monday that the provincial fish and wildhfe branch does not re- pond to complaints of coyotes in residential areas unless life or property is threatened. As there is no livestock in the Seymour Parkway area of North Vancouver and no recorded case of a coyote at- tacking anyone, it appears pet owners in the Seymour area will have to put up with the coyotes. Ado!tph laid out the depart- ment policy for the News as we looked into the com- plants of Mrs. 1. Mon- tgomery of Windridge Street in North Vancouver. When she went looking for her missing cat last week, she found it — being carried away by one of six coyotes that appear regularly in the area. Her cat, she says, isn’t the first that has become a victim of the coyotes, believed to live on the Seymour Golf Course and a nearby mifle range. Says Montgomery: ‘*Peo- ple have seen the coyotes walking mght down Win- dridge with cats in their mouths.”’ Montgomery says her cat managed to escape from a coyote last year, showing up at the house with a number of cuts, scrapes and bruises. ‘At first | thought it was a dog that had got him, °" she says This time, the feline'’s fate was different. - 4 **He (the coyote) just graby bed that cat and ran away down the hill,’" Montgomery said The North Vancouver woman has lived in the Seymour area since 1947 and he present hows se Selected Interior Paint | All Ultima Wallpaper said, the family has gotten I / y A Price Choose from over 200 selected patterns of instore Ultima high used to the racoons and bears Interior Flat Latex Wall G Ceiling Paist quay solid embossed vinyl wallcovenngs' You'll tove our famous ; lesigner collectuons choose a pattern for every room in your that also show up in the arca Available in 10 popular pastel colours Ideal for on pa rv yo But these coyotes are a home! bedrooms. timing rooms. hallways different thing all together ."’ CYW Everyday Low Pnce $19 98 Montgomery says “‘All our lithe pets are in danger iz They've knocked off all 1/2 Price 7 Price* Scaected Wallpaper kinds of pets "’ suterior Sensi- oss tex Pp Montgomery says she ts Choose trom 10 tasthonabie pastel shades! e re ae ; ; . Recommended tar tutchens bathrooms cfuldrens f per really getting scared by the rooms tnm. etc Vinyl Wallcovering single roll coyotes and the prospect of : : CYW Everyday Low Price $24 98 the Scymour group getting Pre-pasted Peelable SALE larger "Where there are six mght Save $4 Vinyl Coated Wallcovering Per ae rol how, we're going to have 12 on our finest Interior Flat Latex ngier pretty soon,’ she says One coat coverage! Recommended for bedrooms Pre-pasted Totally SALE “Nature's going to take great and Imng rooms Dry-Sti e Viny! a= bounds and we're going to CYW Everyday | ow Price $21 98 Coated Icovering gingto rou have a sca) problem here “ Adolph says there have always been coyotes on the North Shore and that there have been at least two in the Seymour golf arca’ fora number of years “Our pohcy in residential “Off the ta elsewh Prices t arcas is not to respond to raguiar pace etsewnere » effect while quantities last. comptaints untess property of people are atonish Adoiph sand \ The problem of small pets becoming part of the coyotes . a> dict. he said, doesn't warrant . Patnet G@ Wallpaper the hind of response the | 2925 Lonsdale, N. Van. Open Sundays 1887 Marine Drive, N.Van. department would give to 2 blocks north of At Capit Rd. east of farmers in the fraser Valicy Upper Levels Hwy 985-5222 10 AM-4 PM apilano oO whe lose livestock to coyotes Plaza International Hotel 980-8 567