What’s with the Wildlife around GVRD?

[badbadboy]

Coyotes chasing cyclists and biting them in Stanley Park.

Two Cougar attacks in Anmore and Port Moody in the past week. I’ve lived in the area for a long time and could recall one cougar attack 15+ years ago and plenty of coyote sightings but never a bite on a human.

Only regular issue was garbage bears getting too normalized to living near humans. Cougar ‘sightings’ are always posted in North Shore hiking / biking areas.

And this afternoon getting buzzed by young eagles while walking my dog. So close I could feel the wind under their wings as they flew past me. Ended up carrying the dog for quite a while after noting the eagles were still hovering quite close nearby.

Is this a food supply issue or is it because humans aren’t getting out being active as much?

 

[westwoody]

Wild animals are becoming accustomed to humans and don't fear them as much as they used to.

Two years ago I saw coyotes inside Winnipeg for the first time. Raccoons were bad enough! I don't want coyotes attacking my dogs.

 

[angry anderson]

Maybe loss of habitat and food sources because of human encroachment. I'm sure they don't want to mingle with us.

 

[blakealridge]

Remember that actually *we’re* the ones in *their* home lol

 

[sybian]

Mountain lions in close contact with humans usually means they’re young and just left the mother.....or very old and starving.
The young will for about half a year travel in pairs, and strategically hunt together, if they are fortunate enough to have that sibling.
If they are raised within close proximity to humans, they have no fear of population.......and it never works out well for them.
They start with domestic dogs or cats......and will move onto stalking children.
if they make it too 120 to 140 pounds, they become ghosts in the shadows, and killing machines....I’ve seen them run at full speed through thick brush and never make a sound....they do not belong anyplace close to cities, or children.
They love killing Horses and calves, and I deal with them every year.....a single lion can kill a 950 pound horse, so if you think a grown man can fight back and live, when a 140 pound cat attacks you from behind, your chances are very slim.

Coyotes are not closely related to dogs and Wolves, and have their own separate DNA...they’ve evolved around us for thousands of years, and consider our discards as a food source, and there’s no changing that.
Your urban sprawl and population with large green spaces, and deep ravines have given them perfect habitat....there’s no getting rid of them, unless disease takes out the numbers...or a trapping program is used as a control measure.

 

[Uncled]

A cougar was recently sighted and later killed in Moose Jaw, of all places.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/moose-jaw-police-track-kill-cougar-1.5733749

 

[westwoody]

There was a video posted elsewhere years ago of a leopard running through a village in south Asia.
It was pretty graphic, the cat was attacking everyone it met. Maybe it was lost and freaking out.

 

[badbadboy]

Coyotes work in packs usually by luring dogs who think they have a new friend. What lurks in the bushes is the rest of the pack of coyotes. I’ve got wooded areas with thick brush nearby and It’s not unusual to hear a dog or cat meeting it’s maker at night time. Makes me wonder about owners who let their pets out late at night.

Now cougars are active in the area I’ll be packing the bear spray with me when walking the dog locally.

 

[JoeYukihara]

I had a racoon steal my bag of grapes when I leaned down to tie my shoe laces on Thursday in Stanley Park

 

[westwoody]

A racoon killed my next door neighbour's cat a few years ago.
The damn thing wasn't the least bit afraid of me, I had to smack it with a shovel to get it off the cat. All it did was back away and hiss at me.
Maybe it had rabies?

People feeding these animals are really creating a problem. Don't do that.

 

[angry anderson]

Just watched a doc on tv the other night about man eating tigers. The narrator put motion sensing cameras around where one hung out. Captured a picture of it with one foot badly mangled, probably from a trap. So it's ability to hunt deer or natural prey was somewhat hindered.
The story continued about the most prolific man eater on record from years back. Killed over 200 people in Nepal and then was chased across into India where it killed another couple of hundred people. When they shot it, they found that years before, it had been shot in the mouth and it's canine teeth were gone. Again. Not it's fault.

 

[JoeYukihara]

A racoon killed my next door neighbour's cat a few years ago.
The damn thing wasn't the least bit afraid of me, I had to smack it with a shovel to get it off the cat. All it did was back away and hiss at me.
Maybe it had rabies?

People feeding these animals are really creating a problem. Don't do that.

That bag of grapes was my lunch, I literally put it on the bench and leaned down to tie my shoes. When I looked back up a little masked bandit dragging it back into the bushes.

 

[Fullhouse]

Recently, I noticed a couple of cougars while I was walking my dog in the Gary Point Park in Richmond.
While I was sitting on a bench, resting, they came towards me.

One bent down to pet my dog, the other one asked me in a very sensual voice if I would ever be interested to share some
companionship with one or both of them. She handed me a slip of paper with her phone number, and said: "Call me"

So, at the moment I'm contemplating to call them.

 

[masterpoonhunter]

Recently, I noticed a couple of cougars while I was walking my dog in the Gary Point Park in Richmond.
While I was sitting on a bench, resting, they came towards me.

One bent down to pet my dog, the other one asked me in a very sensual voice if I would ever be interested to share some
companionship with one or both of them. She handed me a slip of paper with her phone number, and said: "Call me"

So, at the moment I'm contemplating to call them.

Haha,
Excellent

 

[peteinbc]

Remember that actually *we’re* the ones in *their* home lol

Not coyotes. Humans in Vancouver before them. They only came to lower mainland in the fifties (according to grandpa). Migrated from the prairies.

 

[lukom]

I've seen deer in the Whalley area of Surrey, but that was within the first couple of weeks after the pandemic last year. I feel like people staying indoors and virtually. O cars out there encouraged wildlife to return in some places.

 

[uncleg]

Not coyotes. Humans in Vancouver before them. They only came to lower mainland in the fifties (according to grandpa). Migrated from the prairies.

Took the Greyhound out did they...?????

 

[blakealridge]

Not coyotes. Humans in Vancouver before them. They only came to lower mainland in the fifties (according to grandpa). Migrated from the prairies.

probably because we took over so much of their habitat in the prairies

 

[licks2nite]

Keep pet food dishes inside.

 

[LLLurkJ2]

Critters are out n aboot cause there havent been as many people out leaving trash around for lower edibles to munch on, and now the 'executives' of the food chain dont have 'employees' to munch on