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The Bear was back

lilnixon

lilnixon

AKA LILVIXEN
We didn't see the perpetrator, but when I was leaving for work today I noticed that our new bird feeders were shattered on the lawn, and the old Niger seed feeder was still hanging in the tree, but broken.

Gotta love those bears.

John has to come up with a way to get the feeders up high enough to be out of reach of the bear, or the birds are not going to get feed any more.
 
lilnixon said:
John has to come up with a way to get the feeders up high enough to be out of reach of the bear, or the birds are not going to get feed any more.
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Oh good ! Put John on a guilt trip . If I don't come up with a way to bear proof the feeders ,all those poor feathered critters will starve .
 
nixon said:
Oh good ! Put John on a guilt trip . If I don't come up with a way to bear proof the feeders ,all those poor feathered critters will starve .
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:yum: Well get on it John! Foggy had a good idea there....you wouldn't want those little critters to starve because of YOU
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Use to have a Grizzly bear tip over our burn barrels looking for a handout. Got tired of cleaning up the mess every few days.

Put the barrels on a wooden pallet, wired them to an electric fence power source and put in grounding rod. Every night, I would "water" the ground around the barrels.

The first night of the "Visit", here was a loud "Woof/Bang" and the barrels were knocked over again, but it wasn't to get into them, it was from him trying to get away....

Was quite a few years before we had a repeat visit again.
 
fogtender said:
Use to have a Grizzly bear tip over our burn barrels looking for a handout. Got tired of cleaning up the mess every few days.

Put the barrels on a wooden pallet, wired them to an electric fence power source and put in grounding rod. Every night, I would "water" the ground around the barrels.

The first night of the "Visit", here was a loud "Woof/Bang" and the barrels were knocked over again, but it wasn't to get into them, it was from him trying to get away....

Was quite a few years before we had a repeat visit again.
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:yum: That was quick think'in ! It would have been worth waiting up to watch !
The armadillos we have run'in around here are bad enough....I sure would rather have them than a bear!
 
American Woman said:
:yum: That was quick think'in ! It would have been worth waiting up to watch !
The armadillos we have run'in around here are bad enough....I sure would rather have them than a bear!
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Well I have never met anyone mauled by an Armadllo... Must be pretty painful though....:blink:

What are the results, of having your toes rolled over?:shiner:
 
They run when they see you...we used to catch'em when we were kids to sell.
Now their just a gross nuisance. I'd probably hurt myself trying to get away from it:yum:
They are mostly road kill here. Redneck's grooms cake at our wedding was the shape and color of an Armadillo with red velvet cake.:yum:
 
American Woman said:
They run when they see you...we used to catch'em when we were kids to sell.
Now their just a gross nuisance. I'd probably hurt myself trying to get away from it:yum:
They are mostly road kill here. Redneck's grooms cake at our wedding was the shape and color of an Armadillo with red velvet cake.:yum:
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I heard that at some Southern College it takes two of the Students to eat one Armadillo... One eats and One to watch for traffic...:chef:
 
eeeeew! :yum: Redneck can tell ya about that one!
Back in the 40's when the Mob was going to tease you with letting you know yur the next "hit" they put a dead fish in the guy's mail box. Down here they use a hangman's noose and hang a dead Armadillo from the mailbox. Road kill is even better...
 
fogtender said:
They make solar powered electic fences for keeping bears and the like out of the yard, once they hit it, they normally don't come back to that site.

A lot of people use them here to protect their cabins or tent sites from Bears.

Here is some info on them.


http://www.absc.usgs.gov/research/brownbears/safety/electric_fencing.htm

http://www.bearsmart.com/backcountryManners/ElectricFences.html

http://www.wildlifenews.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=wildlife_news.view_article&articles_id=174
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nice timing - I picked one up at Tractor supply for $99.99 tonight.
but then I'm using it to keep the husky inside the fence instead of trying to keep bears out... (the "little" SoB can pace me driving 25 mph down a gravel road for 1/2 mile, maybe longer but that's the point where i stop the truck and tell him to get in...)
 
Erik said:
nice timing - I picked one up at Tractor supply for $99.99 tonight.
but then I'm using it to keep the husky inside the fence instead of trying to keep bears out... (the "little" SoB can pace me driving 25 mph down a gravel road for 1/2 mile, maybe longer but that's the point where i stop the truck and tell him to get in...)
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Awwww, that's cute! Redneck had a huge black Lab that the truck never left home. He would go thru McDonald's drive thru and the girls fed "Spook" old hamburgers.
 
well, if he didn't look so much like a coyote from 100 yards out, i wouldn't worry so much...
and I'm REALLY gonna be unhappy if he teaches "the puppy" how to climb fences. (be careful how you name dogs - they tend to live up to them! "Denali was 47 pounds when we got him last July and he's probably 80 now!)
 
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