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TIMES ADVOCATE
Exeter, Ontario, Canada
Wednesday, October 20, 1999
$ 1.00 (includes GST)
Baby fair
on Saturday
EXETER — New and
expecting mothers are
invited to the 2nd Annual
Baby Fair this Saturday.
Ann Heeney, one of the
organizers of the event,
said she's hoping more
than 100 people attend
the event, designed to give
information and offer
products to pregnant
women or those who
have children up to the
age of six.
The event takes place at
the Exeter Legion from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. on
Saturday.
Heeney said she•thought
of starting a baby fair last
year when she was
expecting. Since the clos-
est fair was held in
London, she thought the
Exeter area should offer
the service. The baby fair
will have about 15 dis-
plays offering information
to mothers about prod-
ucts, community support
systems and midwives.
Campaign
still needs
clothes
EXETER — Winter
clothing is still needed for
of g
the Huron UnitedWay
clothing drive.
The Exeter Cleaning
Centre is donating the
cleaning services for chil-
dren's coats for the Koats
for Kids campaign.
New hats, mittens and
scarves and gently used
boots and coats for adults
and children can be
dropped off at the Exeter
Cleaning Centre until Nov.
1 Families can pick up the
clothing at the United
Way office in Clinton
Nov. 6 and 13.
The Ontario Provincial
Police will deliver clothing
to families who do not
have transportation.
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Never cry wolf
By Kate Monk
TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF
STEPHEN TWP. —
Terry Crabe of Pinery
Provincial Park doubts a
wolf had anything to do
with the death of a bull in
Stephen Twp.
"I guarantee it wouldn't
be a wolf," he said in an
interview with the T -A
last week.
Crabe said there are no
wolves in southern
Ontario because there is
not enough forest cover to
support a wolf pack.
"Wolves wouldn't want
to be here," he said,
adding the last time a wolf
was seen in southern
Ontario was 1853.
Crabe said coyotes live
in the area but wouldn't
be able to kill a bull
because they aren't large
or strong enough.
"Even a cow would kick
the heck out of a coyote,"
he said.
A coyote would eat a
cattlebeast if it was
already dead, Craig said.
A coyote's diet includes
insects, small mammals
and carrion (dead ani-
mals).
There have been reports
of a cross between a coy-
ote and a dog called a coy -
dog, do Craigsaid. Coydogs
g
s
are larger and more
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aggressivecoyotes
than co otes
and could be responsible
for livestock kills.
A coyote reaches an
average size of 26 pounds
with a male weighing up
to 40 pounds. Other dis-
tinguishing characteristics
are pointed ears and they
appear to glide when they
run. Crabe said coyotes
are about the size of a
border collie but may
appear large because of
their fluffy fur.
Foxes and coyotes have
a similar shape but foxes
are smaller.
Stephen Twp. adminis-
trator Larry Brown said
there have been reports of
coyotes or wolves in the
Conc. 19 area of the town-
ship, with people inter-
changing the names of
coyotes and wolves.
The township's livestock
evaluator examined a
farmer's dead bull and
determined it couldn't
have been killed by a dog
and assumed it had been
killed by a coyote or wolf.
Based on the evaluator's
report, Stephen council
passed a motion that the
farmer's claim for the bull
due to wolf injury be
approved and the claim
forwarded to the province.
If a coyote or wolf kills
livestock, a provincial pro-
gram pays up to $1,000 in
s I
comP ns i
e at on f livestock
isi
killed
by adog,
the local
municipality pays corn-
pensation. P Y
pensation.
Nei
bours complain about "vicious" dogs in Zurich
By Scott Nixon
TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF
ZURICH — First it was cats and now its
dogs who have raised the hackles of Zurich
residents.
Four Zurich residents appeared at coun-
cil's Oct. 14. meeting complaining of three
vicious dogs in the west end of the village.
The residents also submitted a petition to
council signed by nearly 40 villagers.
The petition states that the dogs, owned by
Hay Twp. resident Phil Knight, who lives
just outside the village, "are repeatedly run-
ning loose within the village" and have
chased and bitten people and have killed
cats.
"Let's wake up and deal with it," Zurich
resident Mike Masse told council. "Get rid of
(the dogs). They've got to go."
The petition to council states residents are
concerned for the safety of their children.
"We, the concerned citiiens of Zurich, are
fed up with the passive and irresponsible
behaviour of the owner of these dogs .. .
This is a very serious situation and it needs
to be dealt with before a tragedy occurs."
Another resident, Albert Erb, said one of
his cats has gone missing and said people in
the village are afraid to let their cats out of
the house.
Masse told council "the next time (the
dogs) are out, there's going to be hell to
pay."
When contacted by the T -A last week,
Knight said he wasn't aware of the petition
against his dogs or of the presentation to
council.
He said he has had a couple of complaints
from villagers in the last couple of weeks,
but said there haven't been any complaints
about his dogs in about a year, when a
woman was bitten.
After the woman was bitten last year,
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