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Ottawa police say they were unable to find a coyote that nipped at a cyclist’s leg as he was biking along the westbound bike lane of Hunt Club Road, between Merivale Road and Woodroffe Avenue, on Friday.
Police searched the nearby forest after they were called at 2:20 p.m., but were unable to locate the animal. It’s possible the coyote has a treatable skin disease called mange, which is caused by mites. Coyotes tend to cower from people, but mange might make one itchy and irritable.
There have been other sightings of a coyote in that same area. According to a radio report, the coyote’s grasp on the cyclist’s leg was weak and its teeth did not break the skin.
Brent Patterson of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry said mange is spread among coyotes through direct contact or by sharing a common site such as a den. The mites cause an allergic reaction, which varies from animal to animal. Some coyotes are not be bothered at all; others lose patches of hair, and some, in worst cases, lose every follicle on their body.
Not having seem the animal in question, Patterson said, it could also be a young coyote on its own, trying to “learn its way around.” That, too, he said, could explain the bold action on the cyclist.
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Police searched the nearby forest after they were called at 2:20 p.m., but were unable to locate the animal. It’s possible the coyote has a treatable skin disease called mange, which is caused by mites. Coyotes tend to cower from people, but mange might make one itchy and irritable.
There have been other sightings of a coyote in that same area. According to a radio report, the coyote’s grasp on the cyclist’s leg was weak and its teeth did not break the skin.
Brent Patterson of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry said mange is spread among coyotes through direct contact or by sharing a common site such as a den. The mites cause an allergic reaction, which varies from animal to animal. Some coyotes are not be bothered at all; others lose patches of hair, and some, in worst cases, lose every follicle on their body.
Not having seem the animal in question, Patterson said, it could also be a young coyote on its own, trying to “learn its way around.” That, too, he said, could explain the bold action on the cyclist.
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