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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2015 17:31:30 GMT
I just came across this, a black bear in a pool. Happy Tuesday everyone! |
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Post by PeteB on Jun 23, 2015 17:45:48 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2015 17:46:47 GMT
Too cute, thanks for sharing PeteB!
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Post by BuckSkin on Jun 23, 2015 18:45:18 GMT
It looks like the bear was only in there long enough to dirty up the water; you can bet that he will make that a regular stop on his daily rounds, probably after climbing in and out of several really nasty dumpsters. Around here, the locals figure anyone wealthy enough to have a pool is also wealthy enough to be sued if anything happens around the pool; so, there are no worries about bears getting in the pool because if it is fenced good enough to keep the local kids out, no bear is going to be able to get in. The moose are cute; however, it demonstrates something that has concerned me for years; when something as big as a horse is free to roam along and across highways at all hours, nothing good can come from it. Our own state department of fish and wildlife, in all their money-seeking wisdom, has saw fit to turn loose a bunch of elk and bear. This may have been the place for elk two hundred years ago, but it is no place now for horse-sized animals to be jumping in front of cars that are carrying someone's family. A year ago, if we told someone we had seen a bear, nobody would believe it; and, if we persisted in our story, we could very well wind up in the nut-house. Now, just this spring, where never before had anyone ever seen a bear, little barely weaned bears are popping up everywhere and causing all manner of havoc. Thanks for posting the videos; I enjoyed seeing them both.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2015 20:56:33 GMT
Well, here in our part of Canada most of us expect to see deer, moose and bear on a regular basis, depending on where you live of course. In our little town we have mule deer and consequently we get the odd cougar, but to be honest, most of us accept the fact that the animals were here before us, so we just make sure to stay safe around them.
Moose occasionally find their way into the big city, where I work and it always makes the same headline: "Moose on the loose downtown", but again, most often than not our Wildlife and Fisheries people will tranquilize the animal and then move it.
Bears are a very common sight here in Alberta in certain parts and you just learn to live with it. Overall, we haven't had any issues with the local wildlife, in fact, humans have caused more trouble than any other species around us.
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Post by dicklaxt on Jun 24, 2015 9:37:47 GMT
Now what I think is cool is how that bear knew to enter the pool in the corner with the steps. Our wild animals are very smart,,,they have to be to survive. A few years ago I installed what I called "Misters"on my Purple Martin bird racks. This was no more than a flower watering device that I adapted to spray water over the housing to keep the babies inside cool in the hot sunny days in July. It didn't take the adult birds long to figure out that they could also use this to their advantage . They would perch and preen in the mist daily as well as use it to keep themselves cool. I had to remove the misters because of a maintenance interference but the birds remembered as I could spray water up in the air from a garden hose and they would fly through it to keep cool.
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