{"id":869357,"date":"2026-08-24T05:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T05:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/869357\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T05:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T05:46:11","slug":"fish-wildlife-asking-for-residents-help-controlling-urban-coyote-populations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/869357\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish &#038; Wildlife asking for residents help controlling urban coyote populations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/c2bb027d-9414-48dc-9048-ee28517993eb.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>ID 129431156 \u00a9  Jim Cumming | Dreamstime.com (Image Credit: ID 129431156 \u00a9  Jim Cumming | Dreamstime.com)<\/p>\n<p>By Tanner Smith<\/p>\n<p>AB Fish &amp; Wildlife<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tAug 23, 2026 | 6:01 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>With summer coming to an end and fall around the corner, Alberta Fish and Wildlife is reminding pet owners about coyote safety.<\/p>\n<p>They say leading up to winter, coyotes are searching for food and may try to make a meal out of household pets.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Fish and Wildlife suggests always keeping an eye on your furry friends when outdoors, especially in areas where coyotes may be present, including urban centres. <\/p>\n<p>In recent years, coyote populations have increased, and Fish and Wildlife says they are making efforts to reduce urban populations, but most measures can pose risks to people and their pets; they are now asking residents to help change the animals\u2019 behaviour by making all human encounters unpleasant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ID 129431156 \u00a9 Jim Cumming | Dreamstime.com (Image Credit: ID 129431156 \u00a9 Jim Cumming | Dreamstime.com) By Tanner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-869357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}