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What to do if you're stalked by a coyote after young girl jumped in Surrey
Posted Jun 27, 2017 10:38 am PDT Last Updated Jun 27, 2017 at 10:39 am PDT
SURREY (NEWS 1130) – Most of us have seen coyotes and are used to them going after rats and squirrels but, after an attack on a young girl in Surrey, experts are offering advice on how to prevent something similar from happening again.
Greg Hart with the Stanley Park Ecology Society says if a child is approached by a coyote, it’s important to be big, brave, and loud.
He adds it’s critical they not run, but instead stand their ground, and yell ‘go away coyote!’ so an adult will hear and be able to help.
“These events are extremely rare. Coyotes typically are not aggressive toward people at all and, in fact, they do a really good job co-existing with us,” he tells NEWS 1130.
Hart adds the animals often become bolder after they’ve had a human food source such as garbage.
A four-year-old girl was stalked and knocked down by a coyote around 6 p.m. yesterday in Surrey’s Guildford neighbourhood. A neighbour scared the animal away and the girl is expected to be okay.
Tony lives in the area and claims to have seen two coyotes – both described as scrawny and hungry. “I’ve reported [them] to the conservation, to the Surrey municipality, to the police but no one seems to want to do anything about it. I guess we’re going to have to live with the problem in the area.”
Conservation officers are expected to remove the coyote involved in the incident and release it somewhere else.