Posted on 05/07/2007 10:14:33 PM PDT by george76
Trying to protect child and dog puts mom in cub's path.
A twig snaps, thunder claps, and Christine Whitteker jumps. You'd jump too if a yearling black bear had just torn some flesh from your abdomen and thigh at the doorstep of your home.
Whitteker, 38, was recovering Monday evening at her Conifer Park Estates mountain home, nursing her wounds and still feeling unsettled about 19 hours after the bear cub made a beeline for her as she stood at her sliding door to protect herself, her 10- year-old daughter, Micheala Gaze, and her Australian shepherd mix, Sadie, which narrowly escaped the bear's razor-sharp claws.
"I didn't know he had cut me," said Whitteker. "It took me a minute or two."
Her daughter was sleeping on the couch when she was awakened by her mother's scream.
"I kind of saw the blood coming through her jammies, and I knew she was hurt," Micheala said of her mom.
(Excerpt) Read more at rockymountainnews.com ...
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She felt bad about what happened to the bear? OK. that makes sense, was she upset that the Bear missed a meal?
( Bears no doubt experience 'garbage cans' as an invitation. Have a home in mts. and some people like to feed the birds - keep feeders on the decks - bears really appreciate that too.)
huge phobia for KV living up here in the PNW Coast range.
No sightings ever in our radious/area but they thrive down south (40 min_) around the dump and neighborhoods.
Our apple tree is going to produce tons again this year...so he double checks going in and out when he does.
Ya never know. (highly doubt it) But sure feeds the rest of the wild birds and deer. Good ball fethchin fer the Labs.
Goats love ‘em too.
The bear populations are growing fast.
The larger male bears in good eating areas push out the junior male bears. The envelope of ‘bear country’ is expanding.
Message on news last night as to the coyote cocerns was basically - 'nothing we can do about it - they won't bother you. . .if they come close, just wave arms make noise' etc. (works for bears too. . .) and of course, just be aware if you have 'small pets'.
Sounds like the 'safe play yard' is no longer and that many families now have 'frontier' fears. Report was surely biased to the coyote and concerns reduced to the innocuous.
There are things that can be done.
Allow hunting. The government can even make money selling hunting licenses...
And not just pets, but also kids are on the menu too.
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