CANADA GEESE BEHEADED

Slaughter

cuts Bay's ‘Family of 5’

TO WILDLIFE Rescue Association Vice-Pres- ident Val Maynard, Hey ere almost like family. She had nursed the five Camada geese goslings back to health after they had been found covered in oil in False Creek and when they were old enough to fly she had released them from her home at Copper Cove.

They became a familiar sight to just about everybody living in the Horseshoe Bay and Whytecliff area. The family of five, as they were known locally, frequently used to return to Maynard's home to vistt her.

But now there are only three members left of the family of five. For, shortly after midnight Wednesday two of them were attacked and beheaded with a machete.

A B.C. Ferries employee called West Vancouver police with a report that two men appeared to be clubbing two Canada geese on the bank near Bay Boats at Horseshoe Bay.

Police report that when they attended they found two men, one holding a

machete, standing over two decapitated Canada geese. Two men — Dean Allison Pratt, aged 31, of Port Alberni, and Arthur Frederick Hutchinson, 29, of

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and have been charged with possession of an offensive weapon. In = addition, charges under the Wildlife Act and the Migratory Bird Act, as well as a charge of trespass are expeci. '.

Maynard wept as she told the News: “It has just broken my heart. I looked after these babies and nursed them back through long suffering. They were pretty special to me.”

She had cared for the geese since they were handed over to the Wildlife Rescue Association last May when all five of them were found in False Creek, newly hatched and covered in tar.

“They were badly burned by the oil,” recalis Maynard. “They were raised by us and attended by the Wildlife Rescue Association until they became adults and were released at Copper Cove when they were freeflying. about last August.”

The five geese became a

popular sight among the locals and it was this in-

tegration with humans that CONTINUED ON PAGE A4

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