Toronto dog owners’ clashes with coyotes add teeth to old debates about urban wildlife

On a Saturday night last November, Ruby Kooner and her 13-year-old dog Amber set out for their routine walk before bedtime.

Normally it was a quick outing, on a leash, along a path outside Ms. Kooner’s condominium in Ordnance Triangle Park, a community wedged between two rail corridors near Toronto’s historic Fort York site.