If you live in the greater Toronto area you probably have a coyote story.
Take, for example, the coyote pup (aged 8-10 weeks) with a badly broken back leg brought into the Toronto Wildlife Centre over a week ago.
It was operated on and will eventually be returned to the area in Vaughan where he was discovered to be integrated and raised with other pups, which is “critical” to his survival.
“That little guy was seen in the area for a few days, off and on, by residents, and it just kept kind of vanishing,” said TWC’s executive director Nathalie Karvonen, adding another half-dozen more orphaned coyote pups are currently in the centre’s care.
“And then eventually he showed up in a window well of a house and so that’s when he was just easily brought into us, probably because he was hit by a car, which was probably why he was able to be caught so easily.”
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