urban coyotes

From Coyote Watch Canada

The following is from Coyote Watch Canada:

Coyotes are a natural part of Toronto’s urban wildlife community. Join us on Wednesday, July 8 — rain or shine — for a free community outreach event with Toronto Animal Services.

Toronto Animal Services and Coyote Watch Canada are partnering to provide on-site community education sessions focused on coexisting with coyotes.

Learn practical tips for preventing conflicts, better understand coyote behaviour, and watch a live demonstration of humane coyote aversion techniques designed to reinforce a natural avoidance of humans.

When used correctly and appropriately, aversion techniques help keep strong, healthy, and safe boundaries between people, pets, and wildlife.

WHEN: Wednesday, July 8 — 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.

WHERE: Christie Pits Park, 750 Bloor St. W., Toronto

Meet at the picnic shelter near the playground

All are welcome! Please feel free to share this invitation with friends and family who may be interested in attending.

For the wild ones,

Lesley Sampson
Co-Founding Executive Director
Coyote Watch Canada

P.S. We rely on donations from supporters like you to keep our community outreach programs free and open to everyone. Make a gift today to help keep people, pets, and coyotes safe.

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Thank you

🐺 Coyote Awareness Week: Petitions You Can Sign to Help Protect Coyotes

A beautiful coyote eating, Ecomuseum, taken by me.

There are voices that are silenced every day.

Not because they don’t matter,
but because they are wild.

Coyotes continue to be misunderstood, persecuted, and killed across North America—often without reason, without science, and without compassion.

This Coyote Awareness Week, I’m asking you to do something simple, but powerful:

👉 Sign and share these petitions.

Each one is a chance to stand beside them.

🇨🇦 Stop the Alberta Coyote Hunting Contest

A cruel and outdated practice that turns killing into entertainment.
👉 https://www.change.org/p/stop-alberta-coyote-hunting-contest

🇨🇦 Stop the Coyote Cull in Nova Scotia

Lethal control is not coexistence. It’s time for humane solutions.
👉 https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-coyote-cull-in-nova-scotia

🇨🇦 Allow Wildlife Rehab for Coyotes (Nova Scotia)

Injured and orphaned coyotes deserve care—not a death sentence.
👉 https://www.change.org/p/allow-wildlife-rehab-for-coyotes-in-nova-scotia

🇨🇦 End Coyote Killing in Edmonton

Urban wildlife deserves coexistence, not extermination.
👉 https://www.change.org/p/end-coyote-killing-in-edmonton

🇨🇦 Justice for Liberty Village Coyotes (Toronto)

For the coyotes who were killed, and for the ones still trying to survive.
👉 https://www.change.org/p/justice-for-liberty-village-coyotes

🌎 Protect Floyd the Coyote (Alcatraz)

A wild coyote simply living his life should not be trapped or removed.
👉 https://www.change.org/p/protect-floyd-coyote-from-trapping-and-relocation

🐾 A Final Thought

Coyotes are not the villains they are made out to be.

They are:

intelligent
devoted to their families
essential to the ecosystems they live in

And most of all… they are just trying to survive in a world that keeps pushing them out.

If you’ve ever heard them howl,
if you’ve ever seen one in the distance,
if you’ve ever felt that quiet connection to something wild…

Please take a moment.

👉 Sign. Share. Speak for them.

If you’d like to learn more about these incredible animals, you can also read:
https://coyotepretty.ca/2025/08/05/10-unique-facts-about-coyotes/

🐾 Coyote Watch Canada

An Easter coyote, Valentine’s Day 2026. Picture taken by my neighbour.

During Coyote Awareness Week (March 16–22), leading up to Coyote Day on March 23, we take a moment to recognize one of North America’s most intelligent and misunderstood wild beings.

Coyotes are deeply family-oriented, devoted to their mates and pups, and play an essential role in maintaining healthy ecosystems by naturally balancing rodent populations.

This week is about celebrating peaceful coexistence—those quiet, meaningful moments where humans and coyotes share the same landscape.

Coyote Watch Canada is inviting you to be part of this celebration.
You can share your own coyote stories, photos, artwork, or poems here:
👉 https://form.jotform.com/260693777696075 

If you feel called, you can also support their work:
🛍️ Shop: https://www.coyotewatchcanada.com/site/shop
💙 Donate: https://www.coyotewatchcanada.com/site/donate

Let’s continue replacing fear with knowledge, and protecting the wild ones who walk beside us 🐾💙

Active Coyote Protection Petitions in Canada — Please Sign & Share

Coyotes continue to be targeted across Canada through hunting contests, culls, and policies that prevent injured animals from receiving care. Below is a list of current petitions supporting coyotes, each focused on coexistence, protection, and compassion.

Every signature matters. Please take a moment to sign and share.

🐾 Stop the Alberta Coyote Hunting Contest

This petition calls for an end to organized coyote-killing contests in Alberta, which promote cruelty and ignore science-based wildlife management.

🔗 https://www.change.org/p/stop-alberta-coyote-hunting-contest

🐾 Stop the Coyote Cull in Nova Scotia

Urges the province to stop lethal coyote control and instead adopt non-lethal, coexistence-based solutions.

🔗 https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-coyote-cull-in-nova-scotia

🐾 Allow Wildlife Rehabilitators to Help Coyotes in Nova Scotia

Asks the province to allow licensed wildlife rehabilitators, including Hope for Wildlife, to legally treat injured and orphaned coyotes.

🔗 https://www.change.org/p/ask-nova-scotia-to-allow-hope-for-wildlife-to-rehab-coyotes/u/33360323?utm_source=

🐾 End the Unnecessary Killing of Coyotes in Edmonton

Calls on the City of Edmonton to stop lethal coyote control and prioritize education, hazing, and coexistence strategies.

🔗 https://www.change.org/p/urge-edmonton-to-stop-the-unnecessary-killing-of-coyotes?utm_source=

🐾 Justice for the Liberty Village Coyotes (Toronto)

Demands accountability and policy change following the killing of coyotes in Toronto, and calls for humane wildlife management going forward.

🔗 https://www.change.org/p/protect-the-liberty-village-coyotes-in-toronto/u/33442313?utm_source=

🐾 End Wildlife Killing Contests (Coyotes Included)

Led by Project Coyote, this ongoing action works to ban wildlife killing contests across North America, where coyotes are the primary targets.

🔗 https://projectcoyote.org/protect/ending-wildlife-killing-contests/petition-ending-wildlife-killing-contest/

🐺 Why This Matters

Coyotes play a vital ecological role. Science consistently shows that killing them does not reduce conflicts and often makes things worse. Coexistence works. Education works. Compassion works.

Please sign, share, and help give coyotes the protection they deserve.

💙🐾

🌿 Learn More About Coyotes

If you’d like to better understand why coyotes deserve protection, you may also enjoy this post:
10 Unique Facts About Coyotes — a gentle look at their intelligence, family bonds, and vital role in the ecosystem.

🔗 https://coyotepretty.ca/2025/08/05/10-unique-facts-about-coyotes/

Day 4 of Coyote Awareness Week

This is a passage from the book Coyote America by Dan Flores.

Bright Lights, Big Cities

Photo by Johanna Turner

If it seems counter intuitive that a predator like a coyote would find life in town to be fat-city, consider this additional evidence; in rural Illinois, where residents shoot, trap, and harass coyotes, only 13 percent of coyote pups survive to maturity. In the Chicago metropolitan area, a whopping 61 percent of coyote pups survive to adulthood. Like human adolescents, male coyote pups are always the most at-risk pack members. the easiest to trap or poison or shoot. But in town young male coyotes tend to survive at the same rate as females.

In fact, only in preserved wildlands like national parks does coyote survivability compare to what coyotes experience in cities. For a twenty-first century coyote, town life is pretty obviously the good life, especially compared to the dangers of rural America. We’re going to have to start imagining cities as twenty-first-century coyote preserves in much the way national parks were in the twentieth century.

If you want to buy this amazing book, click here for US customers or here for Canadian customers.