Glendale Mayor Laura Friedman is calling on city officials to use the techniques of animal welfare groups when dealing with coyotes in the future rather than turning too hastily to traps.
During a City Council meeting Tuesday, Friedman said several animal welfare organizations contacted the city after a media flap broke out earlier this week as Los Angeles County officials prepared to catch a pack of coyotes that was roaming a North Glendale neighborhood and using a fire-gutted house as their base, the Glendale News-Press reported.
The coyotes were to have been euthanized.
Some of the organizations offered to come to Glendale and help residents, Friedman said.
And while she's willing to consider assistance from animal welfare groups in the future, Friedman said she wanted city officials to vet them first.
Traps were set earlier this summer on a resident's private property in the Brockmont Drive neighborhood after he requested them, officials said, but no coyotes were caught.
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