Even though Orlando had a big mess to clean up with the birds, it’s probably better than the local woman who heard a noise in her kitchen Tuesday. She started to go in, expecting it to be her father-in-law coming for a visit. Instead a black bear that had been rummaging in her trash stood up. The bear was as startled as the woman — the woman quickly closed and locked the kitchen door and retreated to the back bedroom to call 911. The bear left through the same window it had used to enter the house.
The woman said the bear hadn’t made much of a mess, except for demolishing a window screen when it entered. The police and the media were a different story — they came in with muddy boots. She was still happy to see them.
Do you ever have problems with wildlife?
Yes. Midnight morons on loud bikes dragging on our roads.
I haven’t heard those in a long time, thank goodness! I hope yours aren’t frequent.
I can name 10 different kind of wild animals that ate up our vegetable gardens from gophers to bears.
About gophers — I can still remember when we were looking at our garden and a bean plant disappeared in front of our eyes. A gopher had pulled it down into the ground. Andy grabbed a stake and started pounding it into the soil, but I imagine it didn’t bother the gopher much.
Then there were the porcupines who started gnawing holes in the plywood of our shed, and the one who was chewing on our truck tire before Andy chased it away. Andy didn’t like porcupines. Once when he was driving home one crossed the road in front of him. He stopped and tried chasing it with an axe. Even a saint can be goaded beyond endurance.
Both of our areas with fruit trees have chain link fences around them. Before that the bears would destroy the trees when they went for the fruit.
WOW!
i like teddy bears. but i want them to stay in the woods.
the only ‘wildlife’ i had to deal with at the wee blink bonnie when it was first built were the tarantulas and scorpions. for several years they were really bad and invasive. but then . . .
we had totally demolished their habitat to build those silly human houses.
at one point i thought “if this keeps up i’ll have to SELL!” finally they moved on.
sad really. but i breathed easier too!
Yuck! That would be scary. I’m glad they finally went away.
It reminds me of the new housing development close to where I grew up. Every time people watered their lawns the rattlesnakes would come out. The snakes were there first, but they had to go. The story made Time Magazine, which is how Andy and I heard of it.
No, a suburban inhabitant I.
You’re not missing much. 🙂
Well, we don’t have bears, only in the zoo…lots of other animals you have we don’t have either including squirrels (not even in the zoo), snakes.
I just can’t imagine finding a bear in my house, or even seeing one outdoors…
We have possums, the Australian import that is a total menace here (in Aussie they are protected, not here). I have the usual eat orange on tree, leave skin dangling around at the moment…but this year, got a huge crop – so still many for me!
Possum fur is like polar bear fur and is a fashionable quality to be had, but trapping such creatures is not lucrative and I know you have to have a lot trapped to make anything worthwhile…and they have nasty claws, I’m told! Not something you wanna play with…
We occasionally have hoons as Rummuser has but of late none hooning up our street at night – we have long straight road for them to play in…
I’m glad the hoons aren’t too much of a nuisance.
We’ve never lived in an area with possums, but in California my uncle had a raccoon in his yard. My uncle tried to chase it out of his persimmon tree, but the raccoon chased him into the house. I hadn’t realized they could be so aggressive. Obviously, neither did my uncle!