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The Bear Truth
One or more bears in the yard nearly ever day for a week.
Two walked by in the back yard. Three in the front. One more, today, right now, on Bank Island, down by the Rachel River.
The other day, recess at Rachel's school was pulled inside because a bear was sighted across the road.
The neighbors on both sides of us were advised to keep their trash in, and only put it out first thing in the morning, to decrease the chance of a bear eating their trash cans. Both now have claw marks in their trash cans, and continue to practice the same things that attracted the bears the first time around.
The neighbors one house past that still store their trash outside, even though they periodically have to go and hunt down their trash after the bear drags it back into the woods.
Despite the large numbers of bears sighted this year (including a family of four, with the 500+ pound mama bear) there have been no reports of tourists from Philly being mauled and stripped naked like what happened last year with the attack by a "massive" (i.e. yearling, baby-type, just-out-of-mama's-care) bear.
Two walked by in the back yard. Three in the front. One more, today, right now, on Bank Island, down by the Rachel River.
The other day, recess at Rachel's school was pulled inside because a bear was sighted across the road.
The neighbors on both sides of us were advised to keep their trash in, and only put it out first thing in the morning, to decrease the chance of a bear eating their trash cans. Both now have claw marks in their trash cans, and continue to practice the same things that attracted the bears the first time around.
The neighbors one house past that still store their trash outside, even though they periodically have to go and hunt down their trash after the bear drags it back into the woods.
Despite the large numbers of bears sighted this year (including a family of four, with the 500+ pound mama bear) there have been no reports of tourists from Philly being mauled and stripped naked like what happened last year with the attack by a "massive" (i.e. yearling, baby-type, just-out-of-mama's-care) bear.
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Between this and your other wildlife reports it sounds like it ;)
And i thought the residential suburban area* where i grew up was over run with wildlife. So did my parents since i had a tendency to bring them all home with me. They never knew what would crawl, hop or slither from under the sofas and beds (grin)
* It had just about every ecological niche you could think of and i explored them all.
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