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RE: Living in Luxury Off The Grid - Bear Incursion! Run, Freeze, Attack, or Be Eaten?
As long as momma bear wasn't around, this one probably didn't know much better than to retreat to the tree if he was young. We get coyotes here and they can be vicious. Bears were up where my cousin lived in the north. It's hard to teach folks not to leave food the bears like lying about. Restaurant garbage bins are also quite an attraction in town. Glad the dogs are safe and you too. I week is a long time to be house bound because of a bear!
Thanks much! We were pretty tired of having to take the dogs out on leashes. It's only been a problem once before when a mountain lion was hanging out near the house. The dogs were completely happy staying in then!
I got the impression that this bear had just set out on his own. He was young and small but not a baby.
We have coyotes too, in fact we had a young male hanging around the place last winter and all summer. He seems to have taken off now. We're pretty certain that before he left he got the cat. Nome, the cat, was hard to convince to come in the house at night and he had started skipping supper so he wouldn't get locked in. I saw him at dusk but never again after that. We were pretty upset. We've never had problems with aggression against us or the dogs though.
Sorry to hear about Nome. Perhaps Nome got chased away be the coyote? Nicer way to think about it...
True, but Nome always made it back for bedtime. He liked the warm! It was awful spending the days waiting for him to show up again. Thanks much. It helps to hear people empathize.