Coyotes kill folk singer

[jandajoy]

Coyotes kill folk singer


Nasty way to go. RIP

Posted 35 minutes ago
A 19-year-old woman has died after being attacked by two coyotes while she was hiking in a park in eastern Canada, police say.
Taylor Mitchell, a singer and songwriter from Toronto, was walking alone in the Cape Breton Highlands National Park in Nova Scotia on Tuesday when she was attacked by the small, wolf-like animals.
Other hikers tried to scare off the coyotes, described by police as "extremely aggressive", and phoned for help.
Mitchell later died of her injuries in hospital.
Attacks by coyotes on humans are very rare, although they are known to take down sick and weakened deer in winter.
The eastern coyote that lives in the Cape Breton park has interbred with wolves and is somewhat larger than its western ancestors, which typically weigh between 7 and 23 kilograms.
Park rangers were able to locate one of the coyotes and kill it, Parks Canada spokeswoman Germaine Lemoine said.
Rangers are still looking for the other animal.
- Reuters


http://abc.com.au/news/stories/2009/...section=justin

[jandajoy]

Young folk singer dead after attack by coyotes in Nova Scotia park
By Alison Auld (CP) – 6 hours ago
HALIFAX, N.S. — A young Canadian folk singer who had just set off on a solo tour to boost a promising musical career died Wednesday after being mauled by two coyotes in what is believed to be one of the country's first fatal attacks by the animals.
Taylor Mitchell was hiking alone in the Cape Breton Highlands National Park on Tuesday afternoon when a pair of coyotes attacked her, leaving her critically injured with bite wounds covering most of her body.
The 19-year-old singer's screams for help were heard by at least two other hikers, who rushed to the Skyline Trail and called 911 at around 3 p.m. as the animals continued their brutal attack on the young Toronto woman.
Mitchell, who was on a three-week tour of the region to promote her debut CD, was to play in Sydney, N.S., on Wednesday night when she decided to go for a hike in the scenic park.
"She loved going into the woods and hiking," Lisa Weitz, her manager in Toronto, said through tears. "She was absolutely pumped about her first tour on the East Coast and to take her songwriting craft to new audiences...
"She just had a wonderful joy of life and sharing music."
Mitchell, who had about a dozen concert dates in the Maritimes, was rushed to a local hospital and then airlifted to Halifax. She died at about 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, police said.
Paul Maynard of Emergency Health Services said she was already in critical condition when paramedics arrived on the scene and was bleeding heavily from multiple bite wounds.
"She was losing a considerable amount of blood from the wounds," he said.
"This was really out of the ordinary - the first I've heard of something like this."
RCMP Sgt. Brigdit Leger said officers shot one of the two animals, apparently wounding it, but both managed to get away.
An official with Parks Canada said they barricaded the entrance to the trail where Mitchell was attacked and were trying to find the animals to determine what prompted such an unusual attack.
Helene Robichaud, the park's superintendent, said there have been a handful of reports of aggressive coyotes over the last 15 years, but they have not seen any attacks on people.
"There's been some reports of aggressive animals, so it's not unknown," she said. "But we certainly never have had anything so dramatic and tragic."
Officials shot a coyote late Tuesday, but Robichaud doubted that it was one of the two involved in the attack.
The provincial Natural Resources Department said there is no other record of a fatal coyote attack on a human in Nova Scotia since the animals were first discovered in the province in the '70s.
In 2003, a teenage girl was bitten on the arm by a coyote while walking on the same trail as Mitchell, said Germaine LeMoine of Parks Canada. The girl's parents managed to scare the animal away.
Biologists said it's unlikely the coyotes involved had contracted rabies or were protecting young animals.
Bob Bancroft, a Nova Scotia wildlife biologist, said coyotes shy away from humans. But not all animals - particularly young, inexperienced coyotes in parks - view humans as predators.
"This is probably just a couple of coyotes that saw something vulnerable and went for it," he said. "It's horrible. It's not something you would expect at all."
Coyotes in the region are larger and behave somewhat differently than their counterparts in Western Canada, he said. Large males in Nova Scotia can weigh up to 60 pounds.
Simon Gadbois, a professor at Dalhousie University who studies animal behaviour, said hikers should always be vigilant and aware of their surroundings.
Should a hiker unintentionally surprise a coyote or other animal, Gadbois has simple, potentially life-saving advice: Never act like prey."The worst thing you can do is start running away," he said. "Wave your arms, shout, just show that you mean business basically and most animals will think twice."
Ethel Merry, who manages a motel 10 kilometres from the park in Cheticamp, said people in the area have been seeing more coyotes in the last three years and are calling for controls on their numbers.
Merry said she and her family have seen packs of up to seven coyotes wandering around people's yards and attacking pets.
"I'm not surprised at all that this happened," she said. "The coyotes are all around us. ... I am so afraid to walk my road."
Mitchell, who graduated from the Etobicoke School of the Arts, had recently been nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award and was being roundly praised for her songwriting talent.
Mitchell's MySpace site shows the singer standing in the woods with her guitar and a suitcase at her side, along with the cover photo of her album, "For Your Consideration."
Weitz said the singer had just gotten her licence and a new car, which she loaded with her CDs before setting off alone on the tour.
"She was a beautiful, dynamic, young, talented woman and we're all so saddened and shocked," Weitz said.
"She was such a young and old soul at the same time. She just knew how to beautifully craft a song."
Singer Suzie Vinnick met the performer about three years ago and acted as a mentor, teaching her guitar as Mitchell played bars in Ontario and started to garner attention.
"She was really keen and hungry in a really positive way," she said in an interview. "She was a great lyricist and held a lot of promise. I mean, she was at it for two years and already managed to get a Canadian Folk Music nomination."
Copyright © 2009 The Canadian Press. All rights reserved

[jandajoy]

[The Muffinman]

Saw a picture of the girl on another website, actually looked a bit like Alanis Morrisette.

Now if she sounded anything like Alanis the 2 coyotes probably did the world a favour.

[kmart]

"She was really keen and hungry in a really positive way," she said in an interview.

The coyote?

[puppy]

Charmless nerk

Saw a picture of the girl on another website, actually looked a bit like Alanis Morrisette.

Now if she sounded anything like Alanis the 2 coyotes probably did the world a favour.

[Looper]

I read the headline and was looking forward to pictures of a bearded nasal 50 year-old folkie torn to pieces but she is quite cute.

[Rural Surin]

Nature is having her turn....

[mordred]

You should always carry some protection when going out into the wild. I go fishing quite a bit and have run across bear and have seen mountain lion tracks when walking streams. You should have a knife at the very least, but a hand gun would be better. There is a reason they call it the wild.

[Cujo]

She was probably trying to commune with the coyotes.

[mordred]

She was probably trying to commune with the coyotes.

Yea, there was a guy named Timothy Treadwell who was communing with bear in Katmai National Park in Alaska a few years ago with a girlfriend and they were both eaten. Check out the 2005 documentary Grizzly Man to see what a nut this guy was.

[BobR]

She was probably trying to commune with the coyotes.

Yea, there was a guy named Timothy Treadwell who was communing with bear in Katmai National Park in Alaska a few years ago with a girlfriend and they were both eaten. Check out the 2005 documentary Grizzly Man to see what a nut this guy was.

That's hilarious, I wonder if the lobsters in the tanks at seafood restaurants know why they are there? That puts this guy on the same level of intelligence.

[garye]

What a sad and tragic and horrific way to die.
Some of the posters to this thread have made some very cruel jokes and comments.I hope nothing like this ever befalls you, or even worse, someone close to you,perhaps your child. I like off colour humour as well ...but this just isn't funny.Ever been bitten by a dog...now multiply that feeling a hundred fold....in my opinion it just doesn't add up to funny.

[kmart]

What a sad and tragic and horrific way to die.
Some of the posters to this thread have made some very cruel jokes and comments.I hope nothing like this ever befalls you, or even worse, someone close to you,perhaps your child. I like off colour humour as well ...but this just isn't funny.Ever been bitten by a dog...now multiply that feeling a hundred fold....in my opinion it just doesn't add up to funny.

Someone nominate you as arbiter of grief / good taste here then?

Shit happens all over the world every day. A few jokes help everyone deal with it. Relax.

[DrAndy]

Someone nominate you as arbiter of grief / good taste here then?

no, but he is allowed to post his views, same as you

[Rural Surin]

Imperfect universe {or the one that we make-up}. Dog eats dog. Human eats dog. Dog eats human.

[garye]

What a sad and tragic and horrific way to die.
Some of the posters to this thread have made some very cruel jokes and comments.I hope nothing like this ever befalls you, or even worse, someone close to you,perhaps your child. I like off colour humour as well ...but this just isn't funny.Ever been bitten by a dog...now multiply that feeling a hundred fold....in my opinion it just doesn't add up to funny.

Someone nominate you as arbiter of grief / good taste here then?

Shit happens all over the world every day. A few jokes help everyone deal with it. Relax.

No nomination ,just my opinion,same as everyone else.
P.S let me know when one of your relatives or close friends die ,I'll post some tastless jokes to cheer you up okay?

[jandajoy]

Possibly off the point, but, has anyone listened to her music ?

[barbaro]

Coyotes kill folk singer


Nasty way to go. RIP

Posted 35 minutes ago
A 19-year-old woman has died after being attacked by two coyotes while she was hiking in a park in eastern Canada, police say.
Taylor Mitchell, a singer and songwriter from Toronto, was walking alone in the Cape Breton Highlands National Park in Nova Scotia on Tuesday when she was attacked by the small, wolf-like animals.
Other hikers tried to scare off the coyotes, described by police as "extremely aggressive", and phoned for help.
Mitchell later died of her injuries in hospital.
Attacks by coyotes on humans are very rare, although they are known to take down sick and weakened deer in winter.
The eastern coyote that lives in the Cape Breton park has interbred with wolves and is somewhat larger than its western ancestors, which typically weigh between 7 and 23 kilograms.
Park rangers were able to locate one of the coyotes and kill it, Parks Canada spokeswoman Germaine Lemoine said.
Rangers are still looking for the other animal.
- Reuters


http://abc.com.au/news/stories/2009/...section=justin

Yeah, a nasty way to go.

Ouch.

[tj916]

Shame it wasnt Leona Lewis.

[kmart]

What a sad and tragic and horrific way to die.
Some of the posters to this thread have made some very cruel jokes and comments.I hope nothing like this ever befalls you, or even worse, someone close to you,perhaps your child. I like off colour humour as well ...but this just isn't funny.Ever been bitten by a dog...now multiply that feeling a hundred fold....in my opinion it just doesn't add up to funny.

Someone nominate you as arbiter of grief / good taste here then?

Shit happens all over the world every day. A few jokes help everyone deal with it. Relax.

No nomination ,just my opinion,same as everyone else.
P.S let me know when one of your relatives or close friends die ,I'll post some tastless jokes to cheer you up okay?

If you didn't then someone else would. It's just human nature.

[garye]

What a sad and tragic and horrific way to die.
Some of the posters to this thread have made some very cruel jokes and comments.I hope nothing like this ever befalls you, or even worse, someone close to you,perhaps your child. I like off colour humour as well ...but this just isn't funny.Ever been bitten by a dog...now multiply that feeling a hundred fold....in my opinion it just doesn't add up to funny.

Someone nominate you as arbiter of grief / good taste here then?

Shit happens all over the world every day. A few jokes help everyone deal with it. Relax.

No nomination ,just my opinion,same as everyone else.
P.S let me know when one of your relatives or close friends die ,I'll post some tastless jokes to cheer you up okay?

If you didn't then someone else would. It's just human nature.

You mean my human nature is different?...on some things I can't help but feel empathy...is that a bad thing?
However... I do understand what you are saying,I'm not usually overly sanctimonious,this story just saddened me a little....I understand the randomness of life...but she was such a nice,decent,young lady with so much ahead of her.Plus the fact that I happen to be
Canadian,I guess it kind of struck home a bit.We have the occasional bear or cougar in our neighborhood as well.
No hard feelings eh?
Cheers

[kmart]

None whatsoever, mate.^^ . Apologies for being a bit snippy above.

Cheers.

[garye]

No worries kmart thanks...I think I'll stick to funnier posts...like American politics...ha..ha...ha ...lol

[D Mac]

RIP
very very bad way to go out.

Any good news?...... i am finishing my shift in 2 hours better make that check call.

Post no 6
come on.

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