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To: coug who wrote (733)	10/6/2006 10:25:55 AM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6879

That's a great story, Coug. It reminds me of an experience I had as a kid while visiting a friend at a ranger station. We were sleeping on a screened porch when a bear came up and knocked over the garbage can. It was a terrible racket, I'm told, but we didn't wake up. However, we did have to clean up the mess the next morning.

To: coug who wrote (733)	10/6/2006 10:29:44 AM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6879

One time I was sleeping in my sleeping bag under the porch of the ruins of an old cabin with a buddy. I awoke to something tugging on the foot of my bag. I gave it a kick, but the tugging continued, so I got my flashlight. It was a porcupine. I had my .44 in my pack, which I took out and shot the porcupine in the dark. Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do. I was just glad that the critter picked the foot of my bag instead of the other end.

To: coug who wrote (733)	10/6/2006 11:02:25 AM
From: Oral Roberts	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6879

All food needs to be moved inside the garage or something once the bear starts coming around. Motivate it to go elsewhere for food otherwise they just get bolder. Some years back when living up north my neighbor was having trouble with a bear. It was knocking over his bird feeder and eating all of the feed. I told him you need to stop feeding the birds until the bear moves on. Nope, he kept feeding and bear kept knocking down feeder. Then one day the bear decided why wait for him to put the feed in the feeder when I can just eat it out of the pail in his hand, so neighbor is met halfway to the feeder from the garage by mr hungry bear. He drops the pail and retreats and bear is happy. Next day he is going to feed again but bear is sitting right outside the garage door waiting for him so he finally decides to stop feeding birds for a bit. Unfortunately this pisses off hungry bear on day 2 who decides he will break into garage and house and get it from the source. I got a call from the game warden whom I knew quite well and he asked me to go down to the neighbors and shoot that bear if it was still there. It was not but we set up the trap and caught the bear the next morning and the bear had to be destroyed. Sad end when it could have been stopped if he had only immediately removed the food source until the bear moved on. Not that I'm ragging on your brother but often these things can be avoided by a good clean up and ensuring there isn't a food source around to keep them hanging close.