This fortunately is not the massive Grizzly Bear. I believe those approach 1000 pounds. Then the Kodiak Bear of Alaska hits over 1300 pounds if I am not mistaken. Anyway collected as a cub and home raised since then, this grateful bear acts like a good pet. They claim the bear never has bit any human. This bear is claimed to be 300 pounds. Still a brute were it to attack. Question? That bear appears to weigh more than 300 pounds based on comparing it to the man. Any thoughts on it's weight? Question? As an alleged liberal, do you take wild animals into your home to live with your family? As to republicans, can you imagine the stench?
Taking in natural wild animals, I mean those that haven't been domesticated as a species, is always dangerous. Even the most friendly of them can turn in an instant. If we were to breed bears for domestication for around 1000 years then I might trust one but until then I will keep my distance.
I don’t care for bears. We have them where I live and they wander the neighborhood getting into trash cans. I seen one on my security camera. As big as the rear quarter panel on the suburban. I don’t like to be near animals that have the ability to unscrew my head....bottle fed or otherwise. I now let my dogs out when I go out to warm up the truck during the wee hours.
Not a bear story but when I was in California for a short time I was working in a small city in the foothills. I gave a coworker a ride home and she lived in a trailer with her husband out in the boondocks, like nobody else around at all. So I follow the road in and the lights hit the trailer and she asks if I want to come in for a glass of wine so I'm like, "ok". Now mind you, there are no lights on the trailer, the car is off and it is pitch black, I am literally following her voice to the door when all of a sudden I hear this terrible roar. It was a cougar and it was close enough that I could feel its breath on my legs (I had shorts on). I have never, ever in my life been stricken with such fear that I couldn't run and I literally started fainting. My coworker made some noise and grabbed me and pulled me inside but My God.....it was sitting there, waiting to eat me! So you guys can keep your wild animals.
Wild bears are not to be trifled with. I woke up to a bear trashing the trash cans in the park and got up with flashlight looking for it. I did not see a Bear. I told the rangers of CA the next day and he looked at me and said, you are lucky you did not catch up with it. They trapped it by the following day and put it in a remote part of Ca.
At my age of 80, one is suspicious I saw many lions in Ca by this time. But truth is, I saw one and it was night. Coming back from Calaveras Big Trees park, wonderful stands of enormous trees, suddenly cars in front jammed on their brakes. So did I. The lion was on the pavement and standing there. I wondered what it would do and suddenly it hit the speed system and charged up the side of the mountain. When you feel the breath on your legs, be thankful it was not on the back of your neck. That is where they love to take down victims. By not moving, you did not trigger the cat desire to chase. The person that came out shouting or made noise at least would scare off the cat. They favor grabbing victims from behind.
Yes, that's because it was made illegal to hunt them, so now they're overpopulated and coming down snatching pets and attacking people. It was hard for me to not turn this post into a joke about cougars. I managed to stop myself though.
Days back, I watched a youtube that shows a Grizzly making a dinner out of a rather young Elk. First it held it down. And over a few minutes decided to nibble the Elk. Elk commenced to screaming bloody murder. Bear easily holds down the elk and keeps resting and glancing around. Then it bit harder and soon the Elk stopped moving.
A huge bear can't climb trees but while you decide what is huge, a bear might climb up after you. LOL
A good part of the CA mountains is almost bear free. Our flag features the Grizzly bear, long gone unless in a zoo.
They are taking a huge risk. Leave the wild animals in the wild and be smart when in their territory. I think it was on Netflix they have a series about people like this. Wolves, hippos, bears, big cats, dangerous snakes, hyenas. One guy left his decent home and moved to this crappy little trailer in the desert just so he could keep like over 200 venomous snakes. He had his 2 little kids living there. Or keeping 50 big cats in cages their whole life thinking they are "saving" them. These people are koo koo.
In the wild, at times they come after you. If you dislike wild animals, do not be in their territory.
Yes, I know. lol. ...Using some smarts applies to anyone camping, hiking and living around them. I love wild animals
