Bears In The Cities (again)

That's bad. I have been seeing things like this all over the news all around everywhere. Heck a few weeks ago I seen where they had to capture a bear in a city near us. We go to town a few times a month and the place is a pretty busy place. See dead dear and other wild animals all over the place. People have been told not to put their garbage or pet food outside cause of all this. I can see it out here in the boonies where I live but in the cities. Hope you have a great day/evening.

A bears' natural foraging ground is usually several square miles wide.
Humans have left very few areas where a bear can do natural foraging, the only thing left for them to do is forage in our garbage and gardens.
I am probably not the popular view point but we are the ones encrouching on their range.
I don't read the news as I find all news bias and not always factful and depressing, so these are just my opinions to what you have posted. Susan

LOL - anytime I hear (or read) black bears it takes me back to a camping trip I took my 2 youngest on in Northern Michigan (the UP). One evening the park ranger was doing a slide show about the black bears which I was interested in. Afraid my youngest son, about 6 or 7 at the time had no interest at all and kept wandering down to the river edge and I would have to call him back. One time I yelled for him to come see the bears and he yelled back "I see 'em Mom right there in the river". 3 of the them swiming across the river not 500 feet from our camp site.

Do you get to see any bears from your home? I suppose it's only natural that as bears loose their fear of humans, & they can smell their food, they are going to find their way to human food sources. Occasionally we see stories on TV of bears that can do some damage, in their search for food.
I have only once seen a bear in real life ( as opposed to the zoo), and that was in Canada in the Rockies.

We get koals and occasionally kangaroos are in the city now. Usually they are searching for water. Koals are common in my area. We have koala road signs up, but even so they do get hit on the roads.

Most of the bears in our area tend to stick to the mountains. I've only ever seen 3 in the wild, 2 from a distance and one a little closer.

I remember a story I heard on the news once though that highlights the sheer stupidity of some people. A family went on a camping trip. Mom, Dad, Aunts, Uncles, and kids. As they sat eating their lunch one day, a bear wandered into their camp. I guess he/she/it was hungry.

The mother of the group thought it would be a great idea to get a photo of the bear licking honey off her 5 year old daughters hand.

Needless to say, the child lost her hand and almost her life. If it hadn't been for the quick thinking of the male family members rushing the bear and attacking it, the child wouldn't be alive today.

If it hadn't been for the stupidity of that girls mother in the first place though, a family outing wouldn't have turned to tragedy.

Wow thanks for that info! I live in bear country tho I have been here almost 2 years now I have yet to see one. We live near a river also and I am thinking with the way the weather is this year I just mat get to see one. I will keep my camera handy just in case.

Keep an eye out for buster hed make for a good meal for a starving bear. Plenty of fat on that little guy. The bear could hibernate for a year on that one meal lol.

We get a few black bears around here, not close to the town tho, but we have moose, not an unusual sight to see a big ole moose trotting up the street...big problem with them here in newfie land and they are not even native to our province, they were brought in here back in the 60s I believe, just two of them..guess thats all it took...they have taken many a life on our highways..

Luckily, we dont have bears in Kentucky. I can imagine hearing my dogs barking late at night & opening the door to see a bear standing there. That would probably scare me to death.