Black Bear Spotted In Horn Lake, Mississippi

WPTY 24 ^ | 07/03/2008 | Darryl Hood

[Sybeck1]

A couple miles from house in Southaven. This is quite an oddity in my area. In the last couple of years this part of the Midsouth has had gators, manatees and now a bear.. Must be Global Warming lol...

[Rick.Donaldson]

They used to say “There’s no such thing as wild cats and mountain lions” in Kentucky too. When I was a child, about nine, I came face-to-face with a mama mountain lion. If it weren’t for my dad, I wouldn’t be here.

There’s wild critters everywhere, we just don’t always see them.

[whatexit]

How long before they capture and relocate it to NW New Jersey?

[NewJerseyJoe]

> How long before they capture and relocate it to NW New Jersey?

NO THANK YOU, we have quite enough already!!!!!!!

[Sybeck1]

bump

[silentreignofheroes]

There’s bear,panther,fox,coyote,deer,gator,snakes,rabbits,armadilla, possumn, a few snow birds and various other critters here in Alabama.

[WKB]

There are also reports of Black Panther sighting in
South MS.
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080618/NEWS/80618011

[SouthDixie]

The black bear spotted in the Horn Lake, Mississippi area is still out there somewhere.

Black Bear 1, Wildlife Officials 0

[word_warrior_bob]

There was a bear in my mothers backyard in Hopatcong NJ last week.

http://www.hopatcongpolice.org/BEAR.html

Here is the bear awareness link in Hopatcong. Nothing will be done about the bear population until someone’s kid is killed.

[Coldwater Creek]

Let me guess! King Willie is out shopping again!

[Coldwater Creek]

One of my children lives near Barlett, Tenn. a suburb of Memphis. A bobcat was in their driveway one day this week.

[Coldwater Creek]

One of my children lives near Barlett, Tenn. a suburb of Memphis. A bobcat was in their driveway one day this week.

[exit82]

Was he swimming or floating? /s/

[hosepipe]

A black bear can be easily killed with a decent hand gun.. a grizzly or brown bear is entirely another matter.. You need a REAL GUN to slow down or even stop one of those critters..

I know of a Brown bear that had seven 9mm bullets in him for several days before he finally killed a forest ranger.. An adult Alaskan Brown bear is fully as big as a GMC Safari or Astro VAN.. You need a cannon to stop one of those.. Usually a 12 gage with slugs.. and at that with a good shot..

[MississippiMan]

I lived in Horn Lake a couple years during my junior high years. Talk about amazing growth.

And speaking of out-of-place animals, there have been multiple sightings of a kangaroo on the Natchez Trace.

MM

[SlidingW]

I wonder if that was the same kangaroo that was spotted down here over in the Bay St. Louis - Waveland area a year or so ago?

[wardaddy]

There have always been bear in Mississippi contrary to envirogaiawacko claims to the contrary

I have seen them myself near Steele Bayou (sons of Teddy’s teddy)

and at Lake Bruin Louisiana in Tensas.

Bears in Deep Dixie tend to be swamp lads.

[wardaddy]

Manatees in north Miss?

well, German subs supposedly came up river as far as Vicksburg in spring.

[wardaddy]

We had some big cat here in town ..a Caracol maybe....in Warner park in Belle Meade.

maybe it’ll eat Al

would be well marbled even if a bit mushy

[Ditter]

Are you kidding? A kangaroo on the Natchez Trace? My favorite highway BTW.