Montreal has been trying for almost a month to catch and euthanize two coyotes who would represent a danger to the citizens of Pointe-aux-Trembles.
The municipal services have installed traps in order to capture the two animals which “have lost their fear of humans”. Their efforts have not been successful so far.
“We did not catch the coyotes we are targeting in the operation, which are coyotes who had exhibited deviant behavior,” the mayor of the borough of Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux- Trembles, Caroline Bourgeois. “It can still take a while. […] It is something to be expected. We would like it to be done tomorrow morning, but it may take some time. »
The elected official indicated that the borough had made the decision to kill these two coyotes after two years of trying less radical solutions.
“It’s enough when you find yourself with people who no longer want to go out, when the local CPE is forced to send a letter to the parents to say that they will no longer send the children to play outside,” said said Mr.me Bourgeois, on the sidelines of an ad about planting trees in Montreal. “It’s a neighborhood that literally feels under siege. “.
The mayor recounted having seen “people crying, people shaking” when recounting their fear of coyotes.