[marktwain]

Bears are not people, but motivations for free stuff works very much the same.

[PoloSec]

"It is bad for bears, because it makes them dependent, unable to forage for themselves, unless they are taking food from people. When they become dependent on taking food from people, they lose all respect for people and become an active danger. It is not much of a step, from becoming dependent on handouts, to taking what is not offered."

Generations of welfare and all sorts of free stuff: they lose all respect for people and become an active danger... Black Lives Matter!

 

 

 

[Carriage Hill]

Feed us, dammit.

[Malsua]

Bears are not people, but motivations for free stuff works very much the same.

There is a woman down the street from me who has been caught hand feeding the black bears. She's a paranoid schizophrenic(by behavior, I don't know if that's her medical diagnosis) who thinks the Governor has people in boats on the lake watching her house. She's accused my other neighbors of spying on her, breaking into her house on and on. She's nutz. At least once a month she's out on the street screaming at somebody or something. The cops visit frequently.

The bears around here are generally very peaceful. One can hope that they do all of us in the neighborhood a favor and give us some lasting peace.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

[Huskrrrr]

[Romans Nine]

True story;

A gentleman that I knew had black bears at his farm as pets. He would go in their cage to feed them regularly. They brought school kids out to see them and he would get in the cage and play with them for the spectators. One day he went in the pen and was tending to them and when he got close to a female a male attacked him. Seems the female was in heat and the male thought the man was cutting in on his business. The bear took him down (he was an elderly man) and used its claws to basically rip his man part off. They had to surgically re-attach it. He finally got rid of the bears.
Wild animals should be left in the wild or mounted on your wall.

[Flick Lives]

Feeding of bears is against the law in Montana. It is bad for bears, because it makes them dependent, unable to forage for themselves, unless they are taking food from people.

Same goes for humans.

[null and void]

It is not much of a step, from becoming dependent on handouts, to taking what is not offered.

No kidding?

[umgud]

Yeah, and just like people, give them lots of free stuff, make them dependent, and for some reason, they tend to bite the hand that feeds them.

[tet68]

a victim of severe anthropomorphism (thinking of animals as humans). In this case, she was feeding several urban ferals. One of them broke into her house and killed her.

Happens all the time.

[amihow]

Disneyitis has more manifestations than that.

I finally refused to let my kids watch a Disny film with live actors. The theme was always parents tell kids don’t do something. Kids do it any way and go on wild adventure. Parents are so worred about kids and when the kids get back from grand dventure parents welcome back without a swat or a grounding.

Talk about destroying the family.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I’m on FR too much. I saw Fed Bears, and immediately wondered what sort of mischief the government was up to.

[hattend]

When they become dependent on taking food from people, they lose all respect for people and become an active danger. It is not much of a step, from becoming dependent on handouts, to taking what is not offered.

Ursine Gibsmedats

[wintertime]

‘...almost any gun could have been used to stop this attack,...”
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Is this true. I have read here on Free Republic that it takes a large caliber gun to stop a determined bear.