It is dreadful that so many animals had to suffer in this case because of serious ongoing neglect.
It's a good career if you have a heart for animals and love for people. You can be pretty successful because it really takes the combination of both.
The eastern coyote is, in fact, a hybrid between the eastern wolf and coyote that expanded from the west. Whatever animals made it over to Newfoundland probably came from this hybrid eastern coyote.