Toronto couple pushes for change after dog attacked by pack of coyotes
CTV
It started like any other night for Mary and Doug Youngson – a walk at their neighbourhood park with their rescue dogs, Mai Tai and Kahlua.
It started like any other night for Mary and Doug Youngson – a walk at their neighbourhood park with their rescue dogs, Mai Tai and Kahlua.
Mai Tai is a Taiwanese mountain dog they adopted nine years ago, while Kahlua was rescued five years ago from Cozumel, Mexico.
The retired couple said they had been regularly walking Princess Margaret Park near Kipling Avenue and Rahtburn Road for months, often hiking down a trail single file and through the wooded area with their dogs on a leash.
As they ventured down the trail, at around 5 p.m. on July 1, Mary said Kahlua's nose went up in the air, and he stopped in his tracks, alerted by something nearby.
"I looked ahead, there was a coyote," Mary told CTV News Toronto on Wednesday night. "I screamed, 'Doug, there's a coyote.' The coyote stopped (but) didn't retreat."
When the couple looked around, they said a pack of eight coyotes surrounded them, and at that point, their dogs were terrified and had slipped out of their collars. They said they immediately grabbed hold of Mai Tai but one of the coyotes picked Kahlua up and ran off with him.
