Taylor Mitchell, a 19 year-old singer-songwriter from Toronto, was killed by coyotes when she went hiking alone in a national park in Nova Scotia, where she was touring at the time. Park authorities said that such attacks are extremely rare and that the coyotes probably thought Mitchell was a deer or something. So ridiculously sad. |Huff Po|
This is straight out of Edward Gorey.
I live in Eastern Washington and we have a ton of coyotes out here. They aren't stupid, they are the cleverest of canines – they did not think that she was a deer and their natural food is not scarce in Nova Scotia. They either knew exactly what they were doing or were diseased, but I assure you they did not think she was a deer. Either way putting the coyotes down is the best solution – if they were sick they will only infect others and if they know consider humans "prey" then it will happen again to someone else.
God rest her soul.