An ursine wake up call and a rather unhappy llama

[reedrover]

This morning brought with it another bear visit. The front trash was strewn across the walkway and some of it was missing. The pole for the bird feeder was down and the feeder was missing. (I found it while on my way to my car, smashed to pieces behind the truck.) The dog was fascinated by the front yard and a little disappointed when I picked up

Comments

[vvalkyri]

Wow, scary. Clever idea, dumping cat litter over the trash - has this always been your practice?

[reedrover]

We only see a bear once every few years. My goal is to remove food sources and/or make them inconvenient and unattractive. So I won't say that it is always my practice to dump used cat litter on the trash, but it is certainly one of the methods that I keep in mind.

[reedrover]

Yeah, he seems to have settled back down pretty well. He didn't eat his food on Tuesday, but chowed down on hay when I brought it out Tuesday night. Wednesday's food was gone. So I'll hope he's back to normal.

[lizkayl]

Oh my goodness! Glad everyone's okay.

Give my best to Herc! Poor guy.

[reedrover]

Yeah, poor Herc, but I'm glad he was able to run away. I'm all in favor of successfully running away from big scary things with claws.

[draakken]

hopefully it was just a walk through and he's moving on to his summer residence.

[reedrover]

I don't think the bears stick around on our street for very long. There are too many dogs and not enough dog-fences to make it a comfortable long-term residence for something so interesting as a bear.

We get a bear walk-through every couple of years. I expect a 40-mile pattern takes a while to walk.