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Big Stack
posted May 11, 2021 11:56 AM
...she brings her cubs over for a visit



I figured we had a gator in the driveway thread today, so why not a bear (and cubs) on a porch thread?
 
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posted May 11, 2021 12:51 PMHide Post
Wow! Super cute cubs and a chill encounter.
 
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posted May 11, 2021 12:56 PMHide Post
That is a big sow! Cubs are just days old.

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posted May 11, 2021 12:59 PMHide Post
I think the Wildlife People are aware of her. Looks like a collar and ear tags.




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posted May 11, 2021 01:15 PMHide Post
Way cool! Smile
 
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posted May 11, 2021 05:03 PMHide Post
I'd be hiding the Pic-a-nic baskets!
 
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posted May 11, 2021 05:06 PMHide Post
that was cool
 
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posted May 11, 2021 05:17 PMHide Post
I think if that were me I’d be clanging pots and pans together or blowing horns or something to scare the crap out of them so they would not want to ever come back to my house!

Bears may be cute and all that, that is until you start getting eaten by one.


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posted May 11, 2021 05:38 PMHide Post
quote:
Originally posted by PHPaul:
I think the Wildlife People are aware of her. Looks like a collar and ear tags.


She got her shots.


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posted May 12, 2021 05:17 AMHide Post
Is that one of those ‘tame’ NJ bears?
 
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Big Stack
posted May 12, 2021 11:01 AMHide Post
He's had this relationship with the local black bears for years (and generations of bears.) IIRC Simone started visiting when she was a cub.

He's put out lots of videos with the visiting bears. They seem to respect him, and back off when he tells them to. It's actually very interesting.

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Originally posted by Cookster:
I think if that were me I’d be clanging pots and pans together or blowing horns or something to scare the crap out of them so they would not want to ever come back to my house!

Bears may be cute and all that, that is until you start getting eaten by one.
 
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posted May 12, 2021 10:19 PMHide Post
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Originally posted by Cookster:


Bears may be cute and all that, that is until you start getting eaten by one.


You guys just lack a sense of humor. I think the Duke once said "buzzsrds got to eat, too". To be honest, I've never petted a baby bear. They sure do look playful, and the mother bears seem to lack a sense of humor about it.


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Big Stack
posted May 12, 2021 10:23 PMHide Post
Except this one, who brings the kiddies over to the house for a visit.

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quote:
Originally posted by Cookster:


Bears may be cute and all that, that is until you start getting eaten by one.


You guys just lack a sense of humor. I think the Duke once said "buzzsrds got to eat, too". To be honest, I've never petted a baby bear. They sure do look playful, and the mother bears seem to lack a sense of humor about it.
 
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Big Stack
posted May 13, 2021 05:00 PMHide Post
To give everyone an idea how long this has been going on, here's a vid from 2017 showing the mother bear above visiting as a cub with her mother.

 
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posted May 13, 2021 07:15 PMHide Post
Eventually this home owner will find out why the saying "don't feed the bears" is legit.
 
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posted May 13, 2021 07:26 PMHide Post
Yep, them's the folks you read about saying "We don't know what happened, she never did that before."
 
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posted May 13, 2021 07:40 PMHide Post
Yep, she is definitely there "to serve man" - to her cubs!
 
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Big Stack
posted May 13, 2021 10:46 PMHide Post
Let's be a little real here. Dogs kill somewhere around 30 people a year in the US. Black bears kill less than one person per year. People make them out to be wild eyed man eaters. Facts don't, well, bear that out.
 
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posted May 14, 2021 07:21 AMHide Post
There are an estimated 89 million dogs in the USA, and around a million bears. There are a whole lot more people in close proximity to dogs than bears, too.
 
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It's all cutesy-wootsey until a bear goes too far and has to be euthanized (along with her cubs) because some stupid humans tried to make them into pets.

These are wild animals - they have no business hanging out on somebody's front porch. Those animals seem to have lost their fear of man. That breeds familiarity, which only increases the chance of a bad bear/human encounter.

Sure, dogs kill more people than bears. Dogs also kill more people than Great White Sharks. It would still be foolish in the extreme to try to make a pet out of a Great White. . .

It's a neat video, and those are beautiful animals. It just bugs me to see this sort of wildlife/human interaction being glamorized.



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