Posted on 06/11/2018 7:35:14 PM PDT by SJackson
We use Ivory dish soap.
It doesn’t smell like much to me.
Now Dawn on the other hand...
Get a trail camera and set it up in your back yard and try it. It always surprises me what’s wandering by my Idaho home. Where I live I expect things but you never know what’s cruising by. They-clicked a picture of a mountain lion 100 miles or so from St Louis last year. Checking the pictures is like opening Xmas presents. Fun for the family and maybe a wake up call.
“Guys who bait for bears like old donuts, cinnamon rolls, out dated fruit pies etc.”
When I was a kid, my mom was a surgical nurse for an eye doctor who would throw an annual party for his staff and families at his place in the country. The highlight of the evening was putting out such old bakery items from a local steakhouse on the back patio. We kids were fascinated to watch the raccoons and opossums show up to feast on the tasty & sweet bounty. This was in southern KS so no bears in the neighborhood but a raccoon is a cousin to a bear.
Google says they are 80% vegetarian, and that grass and leaves make up much of their diet.
Bears eating grass and leaves? Never would have guessed that.
I figured fish, turtles, and crustaceans would be their primary food.
Bears eat anything that has food value.
Bears eat anything that has food value.
Unless they moved it at least 100 miles it well be back in a few days.
Hey, Boo Boo. Lookie here. Eggos with Mrs Butterworth!
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