[george76]

Do you have a good recipe for bear or cougar ?

[Eska]

When bear come around a second time, they are usually shot where I live in Alaska. They are pests that are attracked by dogfood, old fishracks come spring, and garbage left outside.

I knew a guy in Sutton that had a grizz with cubs kill his geese and then she stopped coming around. Then later that summer, he had a blk bear on his porch. He went shopping one saturday and came home to that blk bear inside his house and bear wouldn’t leave. He shot it inside a bedroom, man what a mess. He had a small stream in back yard and a few kings would run up it; why the bear were there in the first place.

Alot of people smoke bear meat but most the Indians around here don’t eat bear; they think it’s a very bad thing to do. They don’t even shoot bear if they keep moving when they stroll thru the village; only when they break into caches & fish shacks or when they keep hanging around the playground.

[fish hawk]

Never heard of anyone eating cougar but with the bear meat that we got, we took it across the border into southern Oregon where there was a sausage factory that made great sausage. They mixed in pork with the bear and made summer sausage and those long thin hot sausages for us. We did not eat, for instance, bear steaks. I did try some that way and it really wasn’t that bad. More like wild pork (which I’ve had many times here in Hawaii)