Bear trouble
 

We have a problem with bear this year in the county. There have been reports of bear getting into houses & garages if windows are open just a few inches. The subdivision where a client lives has had a sign at the entrance for the last week warning of bear activity. Here's the surprise she had Sun. AM. It's been a few years since she has had a visit & food in the wild has been scarce the couple of years. Now feeders come in at night but he/she does look thin.

They are wiley creatures. Anything for easy food.

Please don't think they are cute. They kill our sheep, one at a time, our calves too. Terrorize our horses and donkeys. They know every birdfeeder and trash can location. we just fixed our screened in porch & door last month because we left a dish of cat food out there. I left food smells in my kitchen and one tried to tear through the kitchen window. (I clean more completely now. (lol)) I live next to the Appalachian trail....don't think you can just scare them off with loud noises. They are dangerous creatures.

Cute? Oh no! I'm just a city dweller and never even seen a live bear and don't want to. We have a couple of coyotes and a fox in our neighborhood and I thought that was bad... but bears!?! Yikes!

We had a raccoon that would routinely empty my hummingbird feeder. Seems she had developed quite the sweet tooth. That was bad enough but to glance out and see a bear doing the same thing would send me back to the city in a hurry!! Definitely not cute and cuddly!!

I don't understand why developers keep building houses in animal habitats and people keep buying them....Here in FL the same prob exists with alligators......Wherever there's water, theres a chance of an alligator....and of course they always hv to kill the animal when it crawls into someone's yard......

Where I live in New Hampshire, bear sightings are not uncommon. Last year, one was spotted walking in front of the stores in a strip mall downtown. That made the front page of the local newspaper. A couple of years ago, one visited the miniature golf course. And a few months before that, one was caught on video robbing a bee-keepers honeycombs. I live in the middle of the woods and I have seen racoons, a pack of coyotes, white-tailed deer, flocks of turkeys, and once I saw what looked like a bear in the woods at the side of my house. I didn't go outside for many days after that. The thing that I have yet to see is a moose, but the neighbors tell me that they have spotted them.

When we lived on Kodiak Island the problem was the dumpsters. I never sent the children out with the trash at night because they could meet a bear.
However, in Hawaii a large black house cat was on top of the dumpster and as we took the trash out one night it jumped off the dumpster in our direction and scared us about as bad as any bear could have at first glance.
Foraging is a real problem.

That would scare the pants off me. How about cats being let out in that area? Yikes!