An otter that dined on prized fish at a classical Chinese garden in Vancouver seems to have dashed as the facility takes steps to ensure the unwelcome critter doesnB次元官网网址檛 come back.

The cityB次元官网网址檚 director of parks, Howard Normann, says automatic closers will be installed on two doors and plates attached to the bottom of them so the river otter canB次元官网网址檛 return to Dr. Sun-Yat Sen Classical Chinese Garden.

Normann says two surveillance cameras will also be placed around a pond that was home to the gardenB次元官网网址檚 collection of koi.

He says itB次元官网网址檚 believed the otter showed up in the dead of night by squeezing through the bottom of a gate.

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The garden was closed last week to visitors but reopened on Thursday.

Normann says the otter ate 11 koi, including the eldest, named Madonna, which was estimated to be 50 years old.

The three remaining koi from the garden and 344 juvenile fish have been scooped out of the pond and placed at the Vancouver Aquarium.

The Canadian Press

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