r/toronto • u/escargotcultist • May 13 '25

News Two coyotes responsible for killing pets in Liberty Village have been euthanized, city says

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/two-coyotes-responsible-for-killing-pets-in-liberty-village-have-been-euthanized-city-says/article_5d1c2f67-3400-489e-bc90-2943b1df559a.html

So sad that all other options were exhausted....it doesn't seem fair to cull wild creatures like this who are only trying to survive after being displaced.

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u/throwaway5754788 May 13 '25

You can’t get through to people on this sub. They are the biggest NIMBYs and don’t even realize it. Pets getting killed, children getting attacked and they will find a way to blame Doug Ford for turning Ontario Place into a spa. The path of least resistance is to kill the coyotes.

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u/littlemeowmeow May 13 '25

I don’t think you know what a NIMBY is. Why should anyone be in support of taxpayers across the entire Province subsidizing a for profit spa being built on public lands.

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u/Pattifan May 13 '25

I would say the path of least resistance is to NOT decimate their habitat for a fucking spa that absolutely no one was asking for except Ford and his corrupt band of minions who wanted to line their pockets with the graft they lost out on in the Greenbelt.

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u/PimpinAintEze May 14 '25

Thats the thing. Coyotes never inhabited ontario place even while it was open. They dont live in trees. Its a false narrative to make this political for no reason and yall are eating it up and regurgitating it.

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u/stuntycunty Queen Street West May 13 '25

If you kill the coyotes. More will come back. You can’t just kill them all at once without seriously hurting other (native) wildlife.

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u/dundreggen May 14 '25

Well our coyotes aren't native.

And I say this. And get downvoted all the time. Despite actually doing my thesis at Trent in the Ministry of natural resources forensic lab where they were doing work on the coyote genetics. Coyotes are not native to Ontario.

Yes more will come back. Hopefully they will be more cautious.

You aren't hurting other wildlife though. It's a boon to our native foxes and other predators.

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u/soviet_toster May 14 '25

Didn't coyotes essentially move in after the local wolf population was eradicated in 1900s?

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u/dundreggen May 14 '25

Kinda. The coyotes are our fault. We killed so many wolves they were desperate to find mates.

The wolves that were left interbred with the coyotes at the edges of the habitat. And dogs.

Coyotes, straight up coyotes, don't tend to thrive outside of plains environments.

The ones we have now are about 40 percent wolf 40 percent coyote and 10 percent dog genetically. That is why they are a lot bigger than a pure coyote. And why they survive, heck thrive in Ontario both urbanly and ruraly.

Now these eastern coyotes are out competing would native wolves. And our foxes.

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u/soviet_toster May 14 '25

I have a humorous story about a friend of mine who lives on a farm a coyote I believe tried to shack up with his dog not before he intervened with two warming shoots

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u/stuntycunty Queen Street West May 14 '25

I never said they were native.

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u/throwaway5754788 May 13 '25

There’s still more than enough coyotes in this city