A group of local Ottawa residents is trying to encourage changes to the city's wildlife strategy after police officers shot and killed a bear earlier this week.
The black bear had been spotted in Bells Corners and Kanata, often eating birdseed from bird feeders.
Police claimed to have tried other options to safely remove the animal but "regrettably, the bear had to be put down to ensure the safety of residents in the surrounding area."" is encouraging residents to advocate for changes to how the city deals with wild animals. "When I woke up that morning, I felt compelled to write something on my community page. That blew up. It was actually suggested I might want to make my own group, and that's what I did," she said. "We now have 600-plus members in a matter of days. People are outraged.""When they started shooting at it, it tried to run away. It was a very hard conversation," she said.
"We want to support our police department as well. We do not blame those two officers who had to do the deed. We know that they did not want to do that," she said. "We want to support them in the fact that they should be able to say, 'No, we are not doing these calls.' … This is someone else's job that should have been on-call 24/7, or we need someone in the city who is trained to do this, our own emergency response team, perhaps.".
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