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Wallis Snowdon · CBC News · Posted: Nov 19, 2018 11:35 AM MT | Last Updated: November 19
These stills are taken from the video that was posted on Facebook over the weekend. (Facebook)
RCMP in Grande Prairie, Alta., are investigating after a video surfaced online showing two boys brutally beating a coyote to death.
The video, which appeared on Facebook Sunday, shows a lifeless coyote being piled into the back of a snowmobile. The rest of the 53-second clip shows how the animal died slowly after multiple blows to the head.
In the video, one boy picks up a coyote by its hind legs and smashes its head repeatedly into the back of a snowmobile.
The animal, still alive, is then pictured sitting in the snow, blinking and stunned. Someone off camera laughs.
Then, a boy curses at the animal and kicks it repeatedly in the head. As the coyote stands and begins to limp away, someone in a snowmobile chases after it and grabs it by the tail.
Due to the graphic nature of the video, CBC has decided to only broadcast a few seconds of the 53-second clip.
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WARNING GRAPHIC VIDEO: Coyote beating in northern Alberta
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This is a portion of a longer video showing a group of minors allegedly beating a coyote to death. CBC News has blurred the faces and disguised the voices of the minors involved. 0:17
A Grande Prairie man who shared the video with CBC News said he reported the incident to RCMP and Alberta Fish and Wildlife. He asked CBC News to keep his name confidential.
He said the incident happened in Sexsmith over the weekend.
In a news release, RCMP in Grande Prairie said they are investigating an online video “depicting the inhumane death of a wild animal.”
RCMP are in the preliminary stages of their investigation, Cpl. Maria Ogden told CBC News on Monday. She declined to provide further details.
Alberta Fish and Wildlife officials are also investigating.
“We believe we’ve identified the individuals involved, but it’s too early to speculate on specific offences or potential charges,” Fish and Wildlife spokesperson Jason Van Rassel said in an interview.
The man who reported the video described what he saw as grotesque and inhumane.
“Very disturbing,” he said. “That’s some very sociopathic behaviour. It’s blatantly criminal.”
The man said he doesn’t know the boys personally but felt compelled to report them. He said he hopes they are held accountable and “get some help.”
“I mean, just look at how disturbing that video is, especially when the coyote is sitting there with fear in its face and they zoom in on it and laugh.
“It’s just heart-wrenching and disturbing on two ends of the spectrum.
“No sane human would accept that.”
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Exposing the Big Game 
Reblogged this on The Extinction Chronicles.
Good grief. I can’t watch, but I can only imagine.
What kind of faulty genetics creates these budding psychopaths? I wish nothing but the most vile of comeuppances for these horrible creatures (not the coyotes). 😦
I knew who you meant. I can’t watch it either and I don’t think any caring should.
And where do they get these bizarre names for towns lately? Too bad these evil creatures can’t be sent to Gravesend. 😉
A double negative.
May they be charged and get jail time. But I have a better idea….stake them down in the deep snow and drive over them repeatedly with their own frigging snowmobiles…maybe they will die quickly, maybe not….if only…..
Or maybe their snowmobile will fall through thin ice. Glug, glug.
The fact that they are minors just boggles my mind. I wonder what Alberta will do about it – I don’t know what kind of wildlife laws they have. Hopefully, these monsters will be stopped before they go on to a killing spree.
If only:
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/2-missing-after-snowmobile-falls-through-ice-in-manitoba/ar-BBPXttX
The only good thing you can say about it is that some decent soul turned them in. There’s proof on the video and their Facebook posting.
To answer Idaursine, there are next to no animal protection laws in Alberta, or any of Canada. Anytime updated laws, no matter how weak, are brought to a vote, our wonderful politicians kill them. Liberal or Conservative, doesn’t matter. When Con. were in power. Libs voted to make horse slaughterhouses illegal, as in the US, or any civilized country. Once elected, they then voted against closing these hellholes. So no, animals in Canada have very little protection for a country that likes to tout it’s “progressiveness”. Every year I become more ashamed to be Canadian. or human, for that matter.