One came out our drive way last year but now it is getting braver. Last night between midnight and 6:00 a.m. it came down out of the mountains and got in my garbage can and tore the garbage all to pieces. Thank god that is all it done. Could have been worse but it wasnt. I would like to see it though. I have heard that the neighbors saw it and it was huge from what I have been told. I moved the garbage can to the end of the house now. I did have it next to my back porch but that changed real fast. :lol:

No shit! That's cool. Only thing wandering around my house at night are the damn neighbor kids. I would love to see a picture of that. I've only seen them in yellowstone. Thats kick ass that their native where you live. We get occasional peacocks crossing through our yard. The people down the street raise them. Whoopty dooo compaired to a black bear. Pretty soon your going to have to hang your garbage can up in a tree! Like they say in boy scouts. :laugh:

Sounds like it's time to build a garbage pen. :laugh:
Hope you can SAFELY get a few pics next time.

Struth!! do you even go out the back at night! :laugh:

Yep, I still go out the back after dark. I have always kept my porch light on at the back. But now I turn on the lights at the end of the house too. I have been within 15 feet of a black bear.

I have also got to see more elk this year. I never realized that those things were as big as they were. I could almost drive my car under one. Lol.

From what I have been told that bear was pretty big. It also tore up the neighbors garbage and some of them saw it. They are really beautiful animals. Hopefully before summer is over I will get to take a picture of one around my house. If I do I will post it.

My brother had a small one jump in his bin, he ran out closed the lid and pinned it. Then he called for a pick up lol.

friend of mine in montana is a parks ranger and told me bears like that he usually has to put down...they get too friendly with humans environment and the free feeds in the bin so "bang" has to off them. I couldnt do it, deer sure, stuff thats edible easy...but something i hold in high regard impossible.

hope you get some pics though, or at least that the bear stays away so that he doesnt need to be put down or relocated.

Good old human encroachment on an animals habitat. Then, when the animal is starved of hunting ground, and start to forage for more food in peoples yards, they get destroyed. :(

Hope you get some pics MIss Dawn. They ae awsome animals! :D

I agree with Wolfie on this one Misty..

Especially with a black bear, who are known for being moody, it will most likely have to be euthanized.

There was a bear for the longest time wandering through my old hick-town neighbourhood and thankfully it was a young one it was tranqued and shipped to Algonquin Park. And not even 3 weeks later there was a bull moose and a cow moose with her baby spotted. They, fortunately, got out of the town alive and weren't hit by cars or shot at by anyone.

My town is only 1100 people and there has been so many animal incidences. I rode my horse a few years ago into Town, and by my house, which is on a fairly populated subdivision, there was a mother bear with her two cubs... not exactly what i wanted near my house lol...