Coyote decoys at Waterloo Park have gone missing [Video]

Plastic coyotes, set up around Waterloo Park to scare off geese, have now been missing for more than a month.

Officials with the City of Waterloo say all eight disappeared within weeks of making their debut.

The decoys were part of a pilot project to see how they would impact the birds who roam around the park.

The city said they received a lot of complaints about geese last year, specifically their droppings and aggressive behaviour.

The coyotes, a natural predator of the species, weren’t meant to rid the park of geese entirely. Rather, the goal was to try and keep them off the main paths.

“They disappeared just before gosling season; until then they seemed to be working but they weren’t there long enough to know for sure,” Stacey Abbott, manager of corporate communications for the City of Waterloo, said on Tuesday.

There’s currently no plan to replace them.

The city said they’re working on a …