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Bear in my back yard
- Thread starter Village Vixen
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My idiot dog is no use. It is too chicken to even go in the backyard without me looking from the back door.
So here is the update. I sent an email and within a couple hours (not kidding) I had a reply back. Very prompt professional letter, with good information. He forwarded my report onto a field guy, who called within 24 hours. They are super busy in an area called Anmore and Belcarra with more problemish bears. A mauling iirc.
So tonight a very pleasant fellow came to the house (met my dog) looked out the window at the top of the shed where the bear has been living and "hummmped" He went out and scraped some bear poop off the shed and looked carefully, determined that the bear is NOT eating garbage but proper bear food. Here is the kicker: it seems that I have bears. Plural. He thinks maybe a momma and cub. A cub because the piles are small, and a momma because the fence is being crashed down. He said that he couldn't get the trap in the back yard because my gate is not wide enough.
Because the bears are not eating garbage, and because there are a couple of really expansive green belts in the area that they probably return to during the day, that he was not scared or excessively worried at this point.
I did ask about shooting it myself if it attacked someone or my dog (Prince Charming), he said yes. He said call him and the RCMP immediatley after, but to protect life and property, I could. It will not likely ever come to that, because I have never actually seen them never mind the fact that my gun is practically inaccessible on a good day, never mind when I would be in rush.
He advised me to try and gather some intelligence from the neighbours about sightings and give more information to see if there is indeed more than one. So I will. I will continue uprooting my garden and try to tear down the shed this weekend.
That is the end of the update for today.
Thanks again for all the advise. You men are awesome.
VV
Well done, VV. I guess you'll have to keep "bear food" in your garbage bins now.
I noticed recently that Fraser Valley Building Supplies is selling "bear proof" garbage bins. Huge things, about $250, though. (Funny, I thought we were limited to 30L bins for curbside pickup.)
Elsewhwere, it looks like local bears like donuts (presumably honey-glazed.) There's a CBC video story here about a bear knocking over the garbage bins at Tim Horton's in Powell River.
Stuart
I noticed recently that Fraser Valley Building Supplies is selling "bear proof" garbage bins. Huge things, about $250, though. (Funny, I thought we were limited to 30L bins for curbside pickup.)
Elsewhwere, it looks like local bears like donuts (presumably honey-glazed.) There's a CBC video story here about a bear knocking over the garbage bins at Tim Horton's in Powell River.
StuartLMAO
My idiot dog is no use. It is too chicken to even go in the backyard without me looking from the back door.
So here is the update. I sent an email and within a couple hours (not kidding) I had a reply back. Very prompt professional letter, with good information. He forwarded my report onto a field guy, who called within 24 hours. They are super busy in an area called Anmore and Belcarra with more problemish bears. A mauling iirc.
So tonight a very pleasant fellow came to the house (met my dog) looked out the window at the top of the shed where the bear has been living and "hummmped" He went out and scraped some bear poop off the shed and looked carefully, determined that the bear is NOT eating garbage but proper bear food. Here is the kicker: it seems that I have bears. Plural. He thinks maybe a momma and cub. A cub because the piles are small, and a momma because the fence is being crashed down. He said that he couldn't get the trap in the back yard because my gate is not wide enough.
Because the bears are not eating garbage, and because there are a couple of really expansive green belts in the area that they probably return to during the day, that he was not scared or excessively worried at this point.
I did ask about shooting it myself if it attacked someone or my dog (Prince Charming), he said yes. He said call him and the RCMP immediatley after, but to protect life and property, I could. It will not likely ever come to that, because I have never actually seen them never mind the fact that my gun is practically inaccessible on a good day, never mind when I would be in rush.
He advised me to try and gather some intelligence from the neighbours about sightings and give more information to see if there is indeed more than one. So I will. I will continue uprooting my garden and try to tear down the shed this weekend.
That is the end of the update for today.
Thanks again for all the advise. You men are awesome.
VV
Good for you VV.I live in the North Okanagan,and bears in the yard are a way of life here.I can't count how many bears I've run into on my place(including 1 grizzly).I pick off my fruit trees and keep my garbage in the garage,and I've only ever had one problem bear,a big boar that killed a fawn below the house and then wanted to fight me and my diesel pickup to keep it.He hung around all summer and bothered the neighbours,once the fall season opened one of them turned him into sausages. Mur
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I agree with this statement, a friend of mine farms Buffalo, his fields are laced with fence running 220Amp and the moose and bears bust through it quite often. It has killed a few that got hung up in it but most times they just continue through it and he ends up patching it up again.
If you decide to try an electric fence run both a hot and ground wire in addition to the normal ground in the dirt. Space them about 2" apart.
Otherwise a single gut shot takes care of the problem nicely as the body isn't on your lawn and most people hearing one shot don't know what it is or outright dismiss it.
Otherwise a single gut shot takes care of the problem nicely as the body isn't on your lawn and most people hearing one shot don't know what it is or outright dismiss it.
