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A LONE coyote stands by the side of a road watching workers at
the Capilano View Cemetery. Residents say the coyoles are now
fearless of humans and regularly visit’ people’s backyards to hunt
down pets. The coyotes like to roam the cemetery and Capilano Golf

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SEE NORTH SHORE HOMES SECTION

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NEWS photos Mike Wakefield

course, using creek beds and hydro easements for access. British
Properties resident Rob Inman (inset) pictured with his nine-mon-
th-old son, Derek, says it’s only a matter of time before a coyote at-

tacks a small chitd.

Residents howl for coyote solution

squirreis,

BRITISH Properties res- WEST VA N HOMEO WNERS FEA R FOR Cats, therefore, have become

the coyotes’ matin food source,

idents are becoming in- , ,
creasingly alarmed over CHILDREN S AWD PETS SA FETY Griffiths said. who lives on

the skyrocketing number
of coyote attacks on area By ELIZABETH COLLIN

domestic pets and want News Reporter tacks.

vironment before the
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coyote population small dogs, but residents say fem.

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becomes a threat to ies only a matter of time be- Joyee Griffiths, seeretary of their natural
Vancouver SPCA, raccoons, chipmunks and

human beings. fore West Vancouver children the West

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become the target of coyote at- said coyotes are

: A) committee
solutions to the problem Thus far,the coyotes, con- — residents will meet July 25 with — Shore.
from the Ministry of En- centrated in the British Proper- Ministry of
ties, Caulfeitd and Horseshoe wildlife officials to discuss natural
Bay areas, have killed cats and possible solutions to the prob- said) coyotes are

Eavironnent And because there are no golf course where she

“rampanr” Mathers Avenue, has tracked
not only in) West) Vancouver the coyotes to their laics in and
but throughout) the North around the Capilano View
Cemetery and the Capilano
has

of concerned

coyote predators, she found pet collars, cat remains
rapidly and even cat bones and fur in

multiplying and exhausting
food supply of See Coyotes
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