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Mickey Richaud

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While we were out, upon returning, found this:

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BEAR!

Notice that the bungee cords are still stretched across the lid. Smart creatures, they are.
 

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No matter what you do, the beast will find a way.
 
Basil said:
We keep ours in the garage until pickup day. We have had bears in our yard from time to time, but so far no damage.
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May have to start doing that. This is the first time it's happened.

We've seen "evidence" of them around, but so far no sightings.
 
Hey, who hasn't seen their trash or recycling rollouts treated like this sans bears.

(uh, with my luck someone here works for a sanitation department and I'm really going to hear about it)

Still looking for a source for bear meat for that all-important bear/venison chili.
 
Raccoons will do that as well. And on one early morning walk, I saw two Ring-Billed Gulls pulling on two ends of a garbage tie, open the bag and dig in. Animals will find a way.
 
pdplot said:
Raccoons will do that as well. And on one early morning walk, I saw two Ring-Billed Gulls pulling on two ends of a garbage tie, open the bag and dig in. Animals will find a way.
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**** the animals there getting smarter than humans:glee::glee:
 
I'd rather clean the mess than have the garage stink and full of flies. And we bag everything.
 
LarryK said:
I'd rather clean the mess than have the garage stink and full of flies. And we bag everything.
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I agree about the stink and flies. And the garbage WAS bagged - double.
 
Mickey Richaud said:
I agree about the stink and flies. And the garbage WAS bagged - double.
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Not sure why, but we don't have a stink or fly problem and we keep our garbage in the garage (double bagged with white kitchen bags inside large, heavy black bags and in proper containers of course). Maybe it's the relatively low humidity but odors are not a problem, nor are flies. If garage is not an option for you, maybe you could get a small locking shed to keep the cans in?
 
I know Mickey. They're probably for commercial use.
 
Finally spotted Mama and her cub - two pics of the cub:

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And the two together:
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Good one, Steve. We have friends nearby whose cat actually treed a bear. Showed me a picture captured on their cell phone.

And the two that I posted were about 80' away from our front deck; that's our cabin in the pictures. And speaking of "Ghost of the Woods", if you didn't see them, you'd never known there were there. I called our renter who was in the cabin at the time and asked if he knew they were out there. He didn't, and when he looked out the window he saw that the plastic garbage can on the front porch was turned over!
 
Mickey, Do you have a connection with the park service or animal welfare? They will, without harm to the animal, trap and move them on occasion to another less populated area. PJ
 
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