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My neighbor had a black bear and two cubs in her driveway yesterday. I had one run across my lawn last summer.

Worked for fish and game in dispatch for eighteen months before I got on with state police for my last six years.
We'd get a lot of bear calls, and the advice was standard. Don't attract them.

Don't leave pet food out.
Use metal covered trash cans, and don't leave those out in the open. Trash cans are bear buffets...
Don't feed the wildlife. (Gee, I put food out for deer,not bears... doh.)
Clean your bbq grill...

If you have a bear on your porch or close to the house....

Open a window and play music loud....
Bang pots together
Shoot the bear with a paint ball gun.
(One woman actually asked what color worked best... the Sergeant told her pink... it would embarrass him among his peers.)

Another citizen said she had tried all those things and he was STILL on the porch.
The Sergeant said, "hand him the phone, i'll talk to him." We actually heard her start for the door.
I can't print what she told the sergeant.

when bear and her two cubs was mentioned in the opening post was mentioned I couldn't help but hearken back to the time I was a member of a bear hunting club for close to 10 years .... for the most part, if a black bear sees a person first, about all the person will see is bushes shaking ... that said, there are exceptions .... one of which comes into play when a momma bear perceives danger to her cubs .... having a person get between them is not a good idea .... in fact, its a very bad idea .... with them wandering around in a neighborhood, folks need to really be alert

I live on what's essentially a habitat/travel corridor connecting large wooded tracts of County forest, between two lakes. It's not unusual at all to see two or three bears pass through the yard every summer. Sometimes the resident bears hang around, too. From the look of the Blackberry vines, there could be a bumper crop, so we'll be seeing them.

Sir Henry wrote:My neighbor had a black bear and two cubs in her driveway yesterday. I had one run across my lawn last summer.

Just a word to the wise- don't try the same thing on the bears as you used on the rabbits.

Lots of bears this year. I've seen a few grizzlies already.

RanchRoper wrote:Lots of bears this year. I've seen a few grizzlies already.

Hope you didn't shoot at them with your Daisy air rifle.

ditto1958 wrote:

RanchRoper wrote:Lots of bears this year. I've seen a few grizzlies already.

Hope you didn't shoot at them with your Daisy air rifle.

I've got the 650 shot Red Ryder....almost enough shots to take down that griz.

RanchRoper wrote:

ditto1958 wrote:

RanchRoper wrote:Lots of bears this year. I've seen a few grizzlies already.

Hope you didn't shoot at them with your Daisy air rifle.

I've got the 650 shot Red Ryder....almost enough shots to take down that griz.

.........the next morning all officials could find was on the ground by a pool of blood a Red Ryder BB gun with 648 bbs .............

My wife got this photo last week near Waterton Park. Just a little guy.

RanchRoper wrote:My wife got this photo last week near Waterton Park. Just a little guy.

Isn't that Yogi Bear's girl friend Cindy?

Haha

RanchRoper wrote:My wife got this photo last week near Waterton Park. Just a little guy.

Looks hungry to me.

Cute