Bear Today, Coon Tommorrow

If you read my blog yesterday, you read that we had a young fox in the back woods by our house munching on apple peels.

Today, we had a bear out and about. He reached way up in the sapling where Husband had suet for the birds and ripped the limb plumb offa the tree, thereby insuring the whole little yummy block of suet for himself.

Daughter was home alone (just like the movie!) and had gone outside to walk our 110 pound American Bulldog, Molly. Daughter happened to glance up to see a bear in the yard, while Molly did more important things like sniffing where all the guy dogs had peed near the fence this morning.

Daughter 'bout wet her pants, dragging the dog (who weighs two pounds more than she does) into the house and calling us, knowing we were on our way home.

She then opened the kitchen window (just above the bear), yelled at him, blew the air horn at him, thereby deafening herself until further notice, and banged on the glass part of the window. The bear just looked up at her as if he thought her deranged, and kept on eating.

At least he left the blue bird house alone.

When we got home, Husband went back out on the porch and pelted the bear with marbles shot from Husband's slingshot, trying to annoy  scare him away. The bear did look around, kind of confused as to where the marbles were coming from, he even backed up a little because he didn't know what was going on.

The black bear is kinda cute. (yeah, I'm a girl).  He's pretty young, so his nose still looks all velvety. His ears are big and round, snout is longish. He's pigeon-toed. And his big old hiney sort of twists from side to side like a fat bottomed girl when he walks.

I know in my head  they are not, nor can they be, tame.

But I can see how people don't take them seriously.

Now, if you have a mountain lion out in your yard, there wouldn't be a problem taking them seriously.

But a big, old cuddly teddy bear? Come on, how much harm could they do.

HA!

Let's just hope the mountain lions stay put.