Coyote attacks continue in Burlington, Ontario. as city reports 7th incident

Authorities in Burlington, Ontario are reporting a seventh attack on a resident by a wild coyote.

The City of Burlington said the incident happened at a home on Lakeshore Road near Tuck Creek around noon Saturday.

The city said a woman was resting deep in her yard when a coyote bit her knee. She was taken to hospital and treated, officials said.

The coyote attack is the latest in a series of reported incidents in the Burlington area.

On September 11, the city activated a crisis management team to respond to attacks after a resident was attacked at an area long-term care home. This attack took place just after 8 a.m. Saturday morning when a coyote attacked a resident on the patio of a New Street home in the Roseland area.

“She was relaxing and woke up with pain from the coyote biting her in the hip area,” city spokeswoman Carla Marshall previously said in a statement. “The coyote was startled when she woke up but tried to approach her again. She managed to scare him away.”

Burlington Mayor Marianne Meed Ward said Sept. 13 that she believes the attacks may be caused by a family of coyotes.

She said the assessment was made following recent consultations with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry on the city’s six previous coyote encounters.

“They are territorial. A family could occupy up to 15 kilometers in radius, and all attacks have been fine within that radius,” Meed Ward previously told Hamilton Today of 900 CHML.

“So the first three, we were able to identify and euthanize this coyote. But there are other members of this same family that we are now following with the help of ministry staff. »

The coyote behind the most recent attack is described as having “the same characteristics, a smaller sand-colored coyote, as the sixth coyote attack on an elderly resident of a local nursing home on September 10 “.

Authorities are reminding residents to report any sightings and telling them not to feed wildlife.

Burlington residents can be moored $300 to hand or ground wildlife on private or public property.

“People may feel like they’re well-intentioned by feeding wildlife, but they’re actually signing their death warrant,” Meed Ward said.

– with files by Don Mitchell of Global News