‘I’m terrified’: Woman said black bears keep coming to her home [More]
She’s 75 and unlikely to develop the skills to take them out.
That said, is it unreasonable to expect the Department of Natural Resources to do more than say “Don’t feed them” and maybe set up traps to relocate them? Because if government doesn’t make its priority protecting life, rights, and property, what good is it?
[Via Michael G]
Why relocate the bears? If she is not fit to live in that environment, she is the one that needs to be “relocated“. Getting a little sick and tired of all the hue and cry and misplaced sympathy for people who move into areas where wildlife is and then complain about the wildlife. Or the idiots that walk their dogs next to the water when they know there’s an 11 foot alligators in the pond.
She was “fit” to live in that environment for 20 years until it was the bears that moved in.
I put links in these things for a reason.
LOL. Yes, I read that. You don’t honestly believe that the bears just recently moved in, do you? More likely the bears have been there all along and it is some change in HER behavior that is now attracting them closer to her house. Either she isn’t covering her garbage properly, she has pets or pet food outside or has bird feeders? If I had to guess, I would say that her husband died recently and he took care of all the things and kept the bears away. Looks like it’s time for grandma to pack up.
What I “honestly believe” is what I can prove, not what I suppose. I looked her up and she lives in an established populated neighborhood where there is no room for wandering bears and they pose a danger to everyone in hundreds of houses all around her if they wander in.
The overturned metal can with the lid on the porch contains bird seed. If you are a foraging bear, do you go after the bird feeder or the can containing pounds of seed on the porch?
Well, sir, the article specifically says that it is common for bears to be in the area. If what you posit is accurate, wouldn’t there be numerous complaints/concerns from the “hundreds of houses” where there is “no room” for bears?
The only danger posed is to loose pets, pet food and bird feeders. Gramma is a dumbass Normie that has failed to understand where she lives and is unwilling or unable to modify her behavior to minimize her encounters with the wildlife that has clearly been there for years. ZERO SYMPATHY for her.