We had a bear visit yesterday morning.
He dragged the garbage can out from under the table where we store it to keep it safe from Opossums and Raccoons. He just pulled the end of the table off the porch to tip the can over…. the strength of this animal is astounding.
He’s a sad starving bear…. eating cheese-paper and plastic.
For a while now, we’ll have to keep our garbage locked up to keep him away from it… otherwise he’ll hang around all the time. We don’t need a bear here on a constant basis… they make it hard to get our work done.
We’ve had bears climb onto the top of the house, we’ve had them on the patio, and we’ve had them invade our garden. One year they ate some of the watermelons we grew. The small ones they could crack open, the large ones they tried, but failed… they had thick and deep scratch marks from the claws and teeth. It was fun eating watermelons that bears had marked up that way. It’s been four years or so since we’ve had a bear come by… so we got lax and forgot we live in ‘Bear Country’. Now for some time, the garbage will be inside a wire and cement dog run we use for the occasional animal that comes by…. only this time, the animal will be locked out.
The Kevin referred to is our neighbor…. he’s the next person the bear would likely visit… so we wanted to warn him.