Bears and Other Predators Invade U.S. Neighborhoods

Popular Mechanics ^ | July 2009 | Erin McCarthy

[jazusamo]

That’s a beautiful black bear, you oughta get a rhinestone collar for him. :-)

[jazusamo]

Here's a pic of a womans back yard in Oregon, she feeds bears. Fish and Game tried to tell her not to do it and she blew them off. She was just found guilty of harrassing wildlife and will be sentenced next week. She doesn't live out in the sticks as it seems in the pic, she has many neighbors.

[Malsua]

There's a woman in my town who feeds the bears. She's been cited numerous times and they just delay, delay, delay. At one point last year, F&G filmed something like 15 bears on the property. I can't find the article. It was quite a number.

The bear pictured above and below farted around for 30 minutes in the yard sniffing gasoline. He wrecked the half full can and bathed in it. I was told he entered a house(knocked down back door) a few weeks back but don't have any verification.

[jazusamo]

People like these two women are absolutely nuts. They get away with it for a while and get to treating them like pets and then get hurt by one of them, they’re wild animals.

The gal in Oregon is facing a maximum penalty of one year in prison and a $6,250 fine but doubt she’ll get hit with the max. I hope she gets hit with enough to discourage her from continuing to do it though.

[george76]

Plus the introduced at great tax payer expense...Canadian wolf packs.

Promises of just Yellowstone Park were soon ignored...

[Eska]

Bait station was a couple miles behind our place, but since theres nothing for 400 miles, I just say behind our place. We have a creek the bears travel in spring, nx to house; could shoot them from bedroom window if so desired. Neighbor about 1/4 mile away has little screaming kids, dinner bell to bear. People keep a few loose dogs around their places, tends to keep bear away. It seems as though a bear will come after 1 or 2 dogs, but when there’s 3, they sseem to go the other way, odds I guess.

I once taught in an Indian Village, grizz strolled thru village every couple days like they owned the place; walked right between cabins. We kept a 338 in school in case bear tried grabbing a kid on playground. Believe it or not, the indians never fed their dogs, claimed it made them great bear chasers. Course the dogs routinely killed and ate each other too. I’d hear the loose village dogs goin nuts, look out school window and here come a bear with 10 little scroungey dogs bitin at his heals, pestering him outta the village. Funny cause they had these miniture dobes and they were the bravest of the bunch.

[jazusamo]

Promises of just Yellowstone Park were soon ignored...

Yep, the enviro nazis won out on reintroducing them in the western states. They're all nuts, the eco system got along just fine without them for 50 to 100 years.

[Frantzie]

I hear what you are saying. I am not advocating trying to return to the days the Indians roamed the lands. I do want to avoid getting our population to 600 million and turning the uSA into India. I think we are already on that path and huge populations uually end up with totalitarian states. Hussein has appeared to have blown through our Constitutional protections because the population just listens to TV news propaganda.

[george76]

The animal rights nuts can not do basic math.

The growth in predator populations due to hunting restrictions is massive.

[Carry_Okie]

huge populations uually end up with totalitarian states.

No. It is high population density that empowers totalitarian states.

[cva66snipe]

A couple of weeks ago in Knoxville, Tennessee a bear wandered through a subdivision. A Vet spotted it and alerted authorities. Some dogs saw it and chased it in a house. The game officers had to put it down. The out cry that followed including that from the Vet who should have understood the danger the bear had then become was ridiculous. Once they munch garbage cans and go into homes that's it. Bears can travel several hundred miles so relocating usually fails. But as far as being a danger I will say the same about other smaller wild animals like coons once they loose fear of humans.

[Frantzie]

This is where we are headed.

[Carry_Okie]

This is where we are headed.

Thanks for telling me.
I've been fighting the Agenda 21 since 1994.

[sionnsar]

Not just due to urban sprawl. Mountain lions are regularly spotted further into Redmond than Microsoft’s campuses. Generally young ones spreading out due to their own population density.

[Frantzie]

Release em into Seattle where they might thin out the libtard herd and those wearing burkahs.

[driftless2]

"good point"

I do scorn the people who go into the wild or just the country and complain that there's farms with odiferous animals or wild critters. However the idea that we should never venture into these areas because they're reserved for wild critters is ridiculous. At one time the spot where I am (and probably you are) was plenty wild. Now more wild critters (bears, pumas, wild pigs, etc.) are reinvading. It's unfortunate, but sometimes wild animals have to be taken down because they've become a menace to people. Saying people should never go into wild areas is just as illogical as saying people should leave areas where wild critters are coming back.

[djf]

That's what I was thinking.


There are dogs...


and then there are DOGS!!!

!!!!!!!!

[PeteB570]

No :-)

There are dogs

And then there are dawgs with a long drawn out “au”.

I got me a Carolina Curb Setter that loves to snag opossums off the fence and play with them.

[djf]

My mutt was half Lab half BC.

Furriest critter I ever met, put one of his hairs to a tape measure once and it was ten inches...

If you were human or feline he was the gentlest creature on Earth, but one night he did in two possums which I found mowing the lawn. Another time he got hold of a garden snake and I had to subdue him and take it away (even though it was long dead) because he practically was giving himself whiplash shaking that snake back and forth!

He died 2 years ago at 16. Best dog I ever had. Still wish that flea bitten jerk was sleeping in the corner...

:-(