We just two bears at our place. No one calls anyone. We don’t want the bears to be hurt.
I Love bears. I hunt deer. I would only shoot a bear if I was about to be attacked. My hunting buddy and hunting land owner gets visited on occasion by bears sometimes with cubs. They’ve walked in in the middle of my friend sitting around his campfire. Mom bear on one side and cubs on the other. When mama bear realized the situation she made a loud noise and ran and the cubs followed her. It could have gone very wrong at that point.
About two months ago, the lady that lives just up the road from me (less than 1/4 mile) saw a bear in her yard. About 95% of my 27 acres is in forest. We have not spotted the bear, but we have seen tracks we think to be bear. I live in north Alabama and my property bounds a small river.
Two black bears (probably sisters) scrounged a neighbor's garbage can box area. (Probably unsuccessfully).
Barking from a neighbor's 30-pound terrier sent both up trees! The same two were likely spotted six miles away one week later. Through practice, I've managed to get pretty good at barking! ;)