Toronto's residents say that tonal cannons rattle their dogs

The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) operates the big one Tram maintenance and storage facility, and they say that birds that are also referred to as seagulls, build nests, lay eggs and leave droppings what causes employees and those in the region of health and security risks.

According to the TTC website, “two tone cannons are activated a maximum of four times an hour, between 30 minutes before sunrise until 7 p.m. and at random intervals, from March to June 2025. If there are no birds, the cannons are not used.

But some residents of the East End have the noises on the edge, especially dog ​​owners, who say that their pets are traumatized by the high noises.

“We have been responsible as a deterrent method as a deterrent method for two years,” said Stuart Green, specialist from TTC Senior Communications, Stuart Green, in an e -mail declaration. The cannons that were kept on a strict schedule are often less than announced that green, the company, residents and civil servants warn before using the cannons.

Since no other companies in the region have publicly determined that their plans are used for the use of solid cannons or warned inhabitants, all complaints about the use of this TTC are directed.

On a Tuesday, the star recorded a total of 27 explosions between 5:46 a.m. and 6:45 a.m., and came from several companies in the Leslie Street area and the Commission Street, in the large herd of Ring-Bills gulls above the Leslie Barns building.

Although the star was unable to confirm which other companies in the region also use solid cannons, technically, the use of birds, but no regulation, violates and is completely legal.

TTC said, while they are aware of other shops nearby who fired near sound cannons, it helps for them to use the technology, and it would be “unhappy if they would influence their ability to continue to do so by other non -irritable use.

For the vast majority of the dogs, if they have to do with fear due to sheer noises, it is more to do with the fact that they don't understand where it comes from, said the dog trainer and behavior based in Toronto, Kristina Rapson, and of course they have more sensitive than us. “

Higher decibel noises are irritated to an animal than the lower ones, said Rapson: “The lower ones can generate vibration and that vibration can also cause fear,” she said.

“If you are startled, you can actually slip out of your dishes or collar, and then you run for your life,” added the addition of a darthund without observing the traffic and can be hit or lost by a vehicle, “said Rapson.

For the first time she heard how the sound cannons, the residents of Riverside, Ariella Kimmel's dog Betty, was frightened, the noise that Jimmie Simpson Park fell was terrified and tore in the direction of traffic until a stranger was able to panic the puppy that was not on a leash at the time.

The dog now trembles “cock between her legs” when it is time to go for a walk, and if you manage to make it into the park, the rattles pulls as soon as the noise happens, the dog rattled to go home.

“Every morning, when I have to shake my dog ​​and be afraid, I only feel for her with a broken heart,” said Kimmel.

Lisa Booth, who lived in the beaches, said because she lives from Woodbine Beach from Woodbine Beach, there are no buildings that help to isolate the sound of the cannons, and the noise carries to her house and leaves her seven -year -old pet Husky, Isla, uncomfortable. Booth said an veterinary doctor recommended her to medicate her dog, because when she is brought outside, she is afraid of the cannons to “do her business”, sometimes up to 14 hours.

After paying for visiting the vet and the recipe, she feared that her dog could be sluggish or could have side effects. The prescribed fear medication lasts two weeks to one month to get in, but when the sound cannons go until at least June, Booth said that she has no choice but to try.

Another dog owner and residents of Leslieville, Kelly Kozluk, said her six -year -old Labrador Retriever Sega was “afraid that she is the only place where she feels safe, the bathtub”.

Now it is a daily fight to get out of your dog, which reacts to the sound of the cannons. They switched their routine around, but without a specified schedule, when the explosion can be expected, Kozluk said it was difficult.

“It is unpredictable,” said Kozluk.

The emeritus professor of wildlife biology at McGill University, David Bird, said, the place of Leslie -Scheunen, which is so close to Lake Ontario, is the reason why seagulls land, not because they are put on by a green roof and that birds want to land there, even if the roof would be covered with tiny rocks. As far as the effectiveness of the cannons is concerned, to grab the seagulls, he said that he had observed birds that are undisters from extremely loud noises.

In a study with students in Goose Bay, Labrador, Bird said that they had examined the effects of low -flying military jets that fly over Ospreys and found that “the birds continued to nest and their young people in the middle of the loud noises.”

In another study, he used a drone with Bären -Banger, essentially a smaller version of a propankanone, and flew the drone over a vineyard in British Columbia.

There were thousands of pigeons and thousands of Amsel, said Vogel, and when they fired from the bang directly over the birds, “every bird flew away, but in sixty seconds all pigeons fed again in the same place. And within ten minutes all Blackbirds were back,” said Bird. “Conclusion is that birds are used to this propank manon.”

Bird, which were left by their own devices, said the seagulls of the ring beam could cause chaos on a roof, which is caused even due to the acid in their droppings and additional weight on the roof, which were caused by materials that have been addressed for nests that have the potential to clog out and collect water on roof, weight and possible damage. The only thing that can be used to prevent ring gulls from gathering is the “exclusion,” said Bird, and although it is more expensive, it has been shown that ring-bills guys are effective by inserting specific fences or networks.

The cannons, which are often used to protect agricultural plants from birds, do not require urban permission to exempt them. They are referred to as “anxiety techniques” in accordance with the provisions of the federal migration birds and are completely legal.

According to an e -mail declaration to the star, a spokesman for environmental and climate change Canada, said the entity responsible for environmental policy, did not say that permission to liberate noises that solid cannons or other loud devices have to use if they cause damage or dangers.

If companies use solid cannons, they do not have to notify the public or residents from the residents, another point of dispute for those who live in the region.

According to the city of Toronto, an investigation of the use of solid cannons in the city would only occur if the residents complain about 311.