My 76 year old wife shooed a black bear off our deck this afternoon with a soup ladle and pot lid.
The bear fled at the noise.
The bugger had stripped a cherry tree in our yard yesterday and broke a few branches in the process.
If he keeps this up, we’ll deal with him. I’ve only had to do that once in the last 18 years. We live next to actual wilderness and bears are mostly easy to run off.
I hope this one is like the rest; I hate dead bears.
I’m sorry...bears is where I draw the line. We see deer in our back yard quite regularly...but they don’t look very dangerous.