That’s crazy. I’ve only had one encounter where the bear didn’t just take off the moment it saw or heard me. And that was when I was driving and one was crossing the road. I laid on my horn and it just looked at me like, “WTF”, and continued on his way across the street.
My wife got a better shot where you can see all 3
Fun enough I had to hold my wife back once when someone threatened her sister. My sweet southern suburban wife, who loves nothing more than to curl up with a nice book, makes me capture bugs and take them outside, would starve herself if it would help others, and I compare to Snow White, went complete and total beast mode.
The guy was a piece of shit and kicked down her door at like 2 am. So we rush over there to help her out. Dipshit shows back up trying to apologize. The second he gets out of his truck, I saw a look on my wife’s face that I’d never seen before, and haven’t seen again. She grabbed a bat I had with me and went straight at him. I had to wrap both my arms around her and use my entire body weight to stop her. The look on the dude’s face as he hightailed it out of there was priceless.
These are black bears that are pretty harmless. Most people think of them as oversized raccoons. Just don’t sneak up on them or get between a momma bear and her cubs. They will run away if you yell and clap your hands at them.
Most human incidents with them are caused by people trying to protect their pets. Which I can totally see because my 30 lb dog will bark and run right towards them like she can do something to a 300 lb bear. Which is why I keep her on a leash. Especially this time of the year.
It was actually 3 cuteness, and one danger. The others were on the other side of momma
For real. Momma even stopped under a tree to feed them. If she couldn’t rip me apart I would have gone out there.
Once
You’re just trying to save all the snuggles for yourself
No but momma did get into someone’s trash and decided to drag it to the woods next to me before ripping it open and spreading it all around. That wasn’t fun to clean up.
Sweet girl. I bet you it felt good on her joints. And she honestly looks great for her age. She must have a loving family :)
Now I can’t unsee that
GNU Terry Pratchett
You’ve got to expand on that
You are a saint taking in a dog at that age. You gave him a wonderful last couple of years. Sorry for your loss.
Max is the best boy
I’ve worked in IT consulting for over 10 years and have never once lied about the capabilities of a product. I have said, it doesn’t do that natively, but if that’s a requirement we can scope how much it would take to make it happen. Sadly my company is very much the exception.
The worst I saw was years ago I was working on an infrastructure upgrade of a Hyper-V environment. The client purchased a backup solution I wasn’t familiar with but said it supported Hyper-V. It turns out their Hyper-V support was in “beta”. It wasn’t in beta. They were literally using this client as a development environment. It was a freaking joke. At one point I had to get on the phone with one of their developers and explain how high-availability and fail-over worked.
She really is. I had to chase her off later in the day after she got into someones trash and ripped apart an entire bag of kitchen trash in the woods right next to me. Guess one of my neighbors bear proof trash can wasn’t that bear proof.