2 problem coyotes in downtown Toronto have been euthanized, city says

Ethan Lang · CBC News

· Posted: May 13, 2025 3:52 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

The City of Toronto says it's made the "difficult decision" to euthanize 2 occupation coyotes successful the Fort York, Liberty Village area, wherever a precocious fig of coyote attacks implicit the past six months person near aggregate pets dormant and locals acrophobic for their safety.

In a quality merchandise Tuesday, the metropolis said 2 coyotes had been humanely euthanized implicit the past fewer days pursuing broad reviews with outer experts.

"Toronto Animal Services was capable to corroborate that 1 coyote successful the country was liable for aggregate antagonistic encounters, and his mate was contiguous during immoderate encounters," the merchandise said. "This has been done arsenic a past edifice aft each options were exhausted."

A 3rd coyote has near the downtown area, according to the release, leaving conscionable 1 known coyote successful the Fort York, Liberty Village area. The remaining coyote has not precocious been seen, the metropolis says, and has shown nary signs of being habituated to the beingness of humans. 

Since the fall, radical successful the Fort York and Liberty Village neighbourhoods person raised information concerns implicit a emergence successful coyote attacks, galore of them involving favored owners and their dogs. Complaints prompted the metropolis to statesman sending regular coyote patrols into the country and make a downtown coyote enactment plan.

The metropolis has besides worked to amended lighting successful the communities, repair fences, region nutrient sources and amended locals connected however to deter coyotes and support themselves against attacks.

WATCH | Experts urge ways metropolis tin respond to occupation coyotes: 

Despite this, attacks person persisted. Between November 2024 and April 2025, the metropolis says it received 335 reports of coyotes successful Ward 10, wherever Fort York and Liberty Village are located. 

Citywide, reported coyote attacks connected dogs person gone up from 36 successful 2019 to 91 successful 2024. Since November, the metropolis says 2 dogs successful the Fort York and Liberty Village country person been killed by coyotes.

The metropolis continues to enactment co-habitation of wildlife and humans successful the city, Tuesday's merchandise said, but "if carnal behaviour changes successful a mode that jeopardizes nationalist safety, past the City indispensable instrumentality enactment to support residents."

An independent, third-party study released successful March recovered that relocation is not a viable option, arsenic provincial authorities prevents coyotes from being moved much than 1 kilometre.

That study recovered the prevalence of coyote encounters successful the country stems from coyotes becoming conditioned to subordinate humans successful the country arsenic sources of nutrient due to the fact that of nonstop oregon indirect feeding. The study besides recovered that section condo construction, and the redevelopment of adjacent Ontario Place, person pushed the coyote colonisation further into surrounding neighbourhoods.