Posted on 12/06/2005 8:29:14 AM PST by george76
A black bear camped out under the porch of a home where four children live - and near where 20 kids wait for the school bus...
Residents...had suspected for several days that a bear was in their midst after they saw their trash cans tampered with.
But it wasn't until two children happened upon the bear on Sunday that its exact whereabouts became clear.
Pedro Sainvil owns the home where the 600- to 700-pound male bear seems to have settled in for hibernation.
On Sunday, Sainvil sent his two children, ages 8 and 9, outside to play in the snow.
"After 15 or 20 minutes, they came back screaming, 'Dad, Dad! There's a bear under the house!'"
"This is a situation that's not uncommon in the Northeast and especially the Poconos area," said Feaser.
"Obviously, the fact that this is across from a school bus stop heightens the concern."
...the bus stop will be moved to another part of the road until the bear is removed.
Feaser said people should bear-proof their homes by blocking crawl spaces and other small spaces that might entice bears during denning season. The space under the Sainvil's porch is open.
Sainvil was most concerned for his family: his wife, their two elementary school-age children and 5-month-old twins, as well as his mother, who has not left the house since Monday.
"It's very scary," said Rose Marie Louis-Jacques, Sainvil's mother.
"I'm just praying that he'll take off. It's like a bomb under the house."
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.myway.com ...
"Darting and moving bear is one of the least successful enterprises. The bears simply come back. From 3 or 4 HUNDRED miles away.'
I have heard this before. Perhaps they should send them further away. We don't have that many bears here in Michigan. Send him here.
We spend much more to send illegals back knowing they will return. I doubt the bear would from MI.
Oprah has babies ???..........:o)
As a practical remedy, a handful of mothballs thrown under the porch will encourage the bear to leave and not come back.
Over 4,000 black bears including around 17 that weighed over 600 lbs were taken in the just concluded Pennsylvania bear hunt. 159 were taken in our 400 square mile county (Pike) - on the NY/NJ border.
You are correct.
Building a fence around your home will also keep you home and yard safer.
But the forests are still overcrowded with too many bears.
Reasonable hunting seasons will help maintain a healthy, balanced bear population.
Is there a pond nearby? If so wait until it freezes, cut a hole in the ice, open a can of peas, spread the peas around it.
When the bear comes out to take a pea, run over and kick him in the ice hole.
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lol! love it!
I have had between 1-3 400 lb. black bears in my back yard every day for the last 3 weeks. Drives my Doberman nuts.
:) Some humor in an otherwise difficult situation. :)
That must be the biggest black bear in history!
Of course I don't want bears dumped in my yard? I never said that nor made any reference to anything of that sort. I did not know there were levels of who does what in the bear world. It's a difficult situation but...where are the bears supposed to go??????????????????????? Maybe we are all infringing too much on all the critters of the world.
cute.
You are correct. It is a difficult problem.
The birth rates of the bears is very strong. The bears are producing more bears than the forests can hold.
Nobody wants bears dumped into their yards. The point was not to imply that you did, rather that the forests are already full . Sorry if this was over stated.
The forests are already overpopulated with bears. We are running out of places to put them.
Doing nothing (no hunting) will result in more problems in the future.
LOL
No problem...thanks for that though. Hope they can do something. It's sad all around.
Black bears will hunt (and eat!) kids. And pets, too.
They don't belong in urban or even suburban settings.
If a bear gets used to eating stuff like dog food, garbage and stuff in an suburban setting, that bear becomes a problem bear.
In Yellowstone they say "A fed bear is a dead bear" because the problems it causes. Frequently, once used to human fare, they come back to where they once were, and the only thing that can be done is to put them down.
Some critters just don't live well around humans.
Wolves, for instance(while mountain lions and coyotes and foxes do better).
Bears, Moose, and other large critters tend to have a rough time of it too close.
Ignoring animal control concepts means you cause greater grief for the animals in the long run. NJ has done a cruel thing to the bears in their habitat.
Many Americans now have problems with mountain lions, packs of coyotes, bears, packs of wolves, etc. It will get allot worse before it will get better.
That is the result of "No Spring Bear Hunting Season" attitude by city folks who do not understand or who do understand but do not care.
The increasingly common signs like : "Have you seen my cute dog Muffin" really mean a pack of coyotes or wolves actually had lunch.
We can reach some of the city folks by informed discussions with accurate facts.
We will never reach the radical left who is full of hate.
This is true. To certain people the science of healthy land management doesn't matter.
(didn't mean to imply yoties or mountain lions didn't cause problems - they just seem to be less problem causing than other predator type critters around here, but that's probably cause yoties are varmints and get hunted year round and there is a season on lions. I live in an area on one of the lower bench areas on the Wasatch Front in Utah. We do get lions, deer, moose, and other wildlife near by. And I have heard the Yoties ki-ki-ing.)
There is the same general land management problem with pine beetles killing millions of acres of trees and then massive forest fires.
The massive forest fires pollute the air, over-heat and kill the soil, pollute the water for years...which all could be minimized by scientific logic and biological decisions made by foresters with biological education and experience.
However, the Sierra Club and their friends (lawyers...) prefer to make allot of money personally by having scientific decisions made by lawyers and emotional, politically correct judges.
The Sierra Club's efforts also help destroy small towns that could use the jobs harvesting this renewable resource so that regular folks could have a home, a job, a life...
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