The efforts to track the hybrid wolf-beast roaming Bowen are intensifying as still more animals are attacked, wounded, reported missing or killed.
Bowen by-law services supervisor Chris Buchanan has issued another alert to Islanders and is hopeful the creature will soon be removed from the Island.
Buchanan noted that the half-wolf, half-dog is not keeping to a set hunting area and there have been sightings on many parts of the Island. The attacks, and the death toll, mount.
"Last week we had four sheep killed and an attack on a pot-bellied pig," Buchanan said, noting they were separate incidents. "Another dog has been gone, for a few weeks now, and we assume it was the hybrid because until we had the hybrid Bowen Island didn't have dogs go missing for any length of time."
Island veterinarian Dr. Alastair Westcott has been engaged by the municipality to dispatch the beast and is actively working to do so. He has purchased a tranquilizer gun and should anyone see the hybrid they are asked to immediately call the Hybrid Hotline at (604) 947-4256 and give location details. That number, newly enlisted for this task, is a 24-hour line.
Buchanan said that the professional tracker the municipality has engaged will likely begin his efforts after the May long week
