We’re up to our ears in bears in Florida!......................
You ought to live in the Kentucky mountains. If you leave garbage or dog food outside you’re gonna have a big visitor if they are in the neighborhood. My wife’s grandfather had monocular degeneration and couldn’t see well at the end of his life. He heard a noise on his back porch one morning and opened the door and standing on the other side of the screen door was a 300 lbs black bear. He couldn’t make out who it was and was trying to talk to them. Her aunt yelled its a bear shut the door! It was eating dog food left on the porch.
If I’m out about my property I carry a S/A .44 magnum revolver with hard hitting hunting rounds for big game at all times.
You should — very carefully — explain to the bears that nothing tastes quite as good as a Burmese python, except maybe a tegu.