Posted on 10/11/2015 6:55:05 AM PDT by marktwain
KALISPELL - The elderly woman attacked by a black bear inside her home west of Kalispell over the weekend has died from injuries she sustained in the incident.The Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks personel stated the problem well:
“This is a very unfortunate situation,” FWP Warden Capt. Lee Anderson said. “These bears were extremely habituated and food-conditioned, and they posed a danger to the people who live in the area.Feeding of bears is against the law in Montana. It is bad for bears, because it makes them dependent, unable to forage for themselves, unless they are taking food from people. When they become dependent on taking food from people, they lose all respect for people and become an active danger. It is not much of a step, from becoming dependent on handouts, to taking what is not offered.
“The last thing we wanted to do is to kill these bears. But we had no choice because of the danger they pose to local residents.”
Anderson and other FWP officials made the comments before Paschke’s death was announced. The woman had not been identified prior to Thursday.
Anderson said FWP does not know how many bears were food-conditioned at the woman’s residence.
Generations of welfare and all sorts of free stuff: they lose all respect for people and become an active danger... Black Lives Matter!
There is a woman down the street from me who has been caught hand feeding the black bears. She's a paranoid schizophrenic(by behavior, I don't know if that's her medical diagnosis) who thinks the Governor has people in boats on the lake watching her house. She's accused my other neighbors of spying on her, breaking into her house on and on. She's nutz. At least once a month she's out on the street screaming at somebody or something. The cops visit frequently.
The bears around here are generally very peaceful. One can hope that they do all of us in the neighborhood a favor and give us some lasting peace.
True story;
A gentleman that I knew had black bears at his farm as pets. He would go in their cage to feed them regularly. They brought school kids out to see them and he would get in the cage and play with them for the spectators. One day he went in the pen and was tending to them and when he got close to a female a male attacked him. Seems the female was in heat and the male thought the man was cutting in on his business. The bear took him down (he was an elderly man) and used its claws to basically rip his man part off. They had to surgically re-attach it. He finally got rid of the bears.
Wild animals should be left in the wild or mounted on your wall.
Same goes for humans.
No kidding?
What part of New Jersey has bears?
Pants Up! Don’t Loot!
Yeah, and just like people, give them lots of free stuff, make them dependent, and for some reason, they tend to bite the hand that feeds them.
from the New Jersey Div of Wildlife.-
-Since the 1980s the Garden State's black bear population has been increasing and expanding its range both southward and eastward from the forested areas of northwestern New Jersey. Within the most densely populated state in the nation, black bears are thriving and there are now confirmed bear sightings in all 21 of New Jersey's counties. -tom
a victim of severe anthropomorphism (thinking of animals as humans). In this case, she was feeding several urban ferals. One of them broke into her house and killed her.
Happens all the time.
Unlike deer, New Jersey bears seldom interact with the only remaining large predator, the motor vehicle.
Disneyitis has more manifestations than that.
I finally refused to let my kids watch a Disny film with live actors. The theme was always parents tell kids don’t do something. Kids do it any way and go on wild adventure. Parents are so worred about kids and when the kids get back from grand dventure parents welcome back without a swat or a grounding.
Talk about destroying the family.
I’m on FR too much. I saw Fed Bears, and immediately wondered what sort of mischief the government was up to.
I know there were bears in Texas in the past but I haven’t heard of a bear sighting in my lifetime. I am very happy that we don’t have them. We have caught glimpses of mountain lions in our game cameras.
Got lots of bear up here at my place, also mountain lion, bobcat, weasels, etc.
Complained by phone and in writing to USFS, Dept. of Fish and Game, even Animal Control.
Last word I got was “even if we trap and remove them, they will just come back”.
“You live out in the middle of No Where, it is your problem, you’ll have to deal with it”.
I have a deal with the predators around here, “You leave me and mine alone, I’ll leave you alone, you loot, I shoot”.
Just as a matter of interest, Bear and Mountain Lion meat makes great dog food.
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