Posted on 02/19/2022 8:20:52 AM PST by Right Wing Vegan
He has many names: Yogi, Chunky, Hank the Tank, Jake. Some people simply call him the Big Guy.
What everyone can agree on is that the 500-pound black bear roaming around South Lake Tahoe, Calif., has become a problem. For the last seven months, the bear has caused property damage and broken into nearly 30 homes in and near the waterfront Tahoe Keys neighborhood searching for food.
Because the bear has become accustomed to humans and would appear to consider them a source of easily accessible food, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife has labeled it a “severely food-habituated” conflict bear.
On Wednesday, members of a local homeowners association agreed to allow the state to use their properties to capture the bear, but it’s unclear what will happen once he’s contained. For one, traps recently set up in the neighborhood proved unsuccessful for catching the wily bear, and the state is reevaluating its strategies.
After it’s captured, the bear could be killed or relocated, according to the Department of Fish and Wildlife.
“Any decision on what to do with the bear after capture is the discretion” of the state, department spokesperson Peter Tira wrote in an email.
According to the department’s black bear policy, “Adult bears may be poor candidates for placement [in a sanctuary] due to the chronic stress of adjusting to captivity after living in only wild conditions.”
Ann Bryant, who oversees the advocacy group Bear League, said the Tahoe Keys bear is docile and only searching for food.
“He’s on a mission. You can tell he likes to eat,” Bryant said. “The Big Guy likes to eat where it’s easy to get food, and he doesn’t like to forage.”
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The Revenant?......I thought it a pretty good movie
In 1905, this bear would have been dead on sight.
I see now. Big Guy just wants his 10%.
Sounds like I’d puke too.
Such a magnificent animal would look beautiful on the wall of my den.
The bear needs to be eliminated.
A few good Mountain Men should be able to handle him.
Doesn’t this sound familiar. When you get an animal that becomes comfortable with man because they don’t do anything about them, they get aggressive to their wishes and no longer fear man. Another example is the gators in the southeast.
So when an animal is no longer held responsible for its actions, and becomes aware it can do what it wants good or bad, with no or very little repercussion, then it then becomes a danger?
I don’t think I have to open up a forum for the defunding of police here...it’s probably understood. Man is an animal. And when people that wish to act like them do so, and there are no limits applied to them, then when do they become a danger? This thought can be applied to a number of groups or sub groups in the US. Take your pick. My first paragraph applies here and man can be added to that short list.
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They look exactly like a human would look. In your mind anyway.
He might just taste like Chicken.
Bait, tree stand, archer. No more bear. But nooooo! Instead a bunch of egg-heads are going to “trap” the bear then euthanize it when nobody is looking. How long will that take, and what would cost?
Boom.
“..I thought it a pretty good movie”
Me too. Tom Hardy is a great actor IMO.
Capture him. Send him to a zoo or wild animal park. Let the bugger live out his life educating visitors or even reproducing. When he dies there can be a raffle or bid for his stuffed carcass. Save his genetic material for research or fertilization. Help defray the cost of his incarceration. If you are starving or a subsistense hunter, you can eat him.
They could ship the bear to SF or LA to solve the homeless problem. Or hire him out as a guard dog. Heard he will work for donuts.
Good idea. I certainly would not want the bear dead. Just tranquilize it and drive it far far away.
If a bear broke into my house while I was away, I would blame myself. I wouldn’t want the bear dead. (Note: We get bear visitors every so often but the only time one ever scratched around the door, there was garbage to take to the dump in a locked bin out on the porch. Squirrels try to get in every so often; they know I’m a pushover.)
If a bear broke into the house while I was there, however, he would die. Like, really quickly.
No disagreement there. There is a video of a pet bear who was rescued as a tiny baby and raised like a dog. Comes when called, lives in the house, curls up with people and cats, really cute. I think I found that on Russia Behind the Headlines
I love my squirrels, put nuts out under a big tree for them at night, and they often bring them up on the porch and eat them where I can see them. Guess they consider themselves pets now. My cat disagrees.
I knew this gal who lived in the 2nd story of a Victorian style house in Capitol Hill Denver - she let the squirrels into the house. They would sit on the dining room table. (It was cute but I was scared. Yuck, ok?)
I will let the squirrels draw near and do tricks for food, but they’re not welcome in the house. I constantly explain to them that they might have to look somewhere else for food at some point. I’m not sure if they understand or not but I don’t want to have to snuff any of them.
Birds are all right. In fact, I have a sign up to the effect that the corn I leave out is for BIRDS ONLY. Any deer taking the corn are risking being shot. I note a lot of the deer around here can’t read. Just another sign of taxpayer-funded education failure.
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