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Old 09-03-2004, 02:06 PM  
SleazeQueen
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Are you way out there in the sticks? Chances are Fish and Game/Animal Contol won't help you. They consider the bear to be home and you are in THEIR space if you are way out of city limits.

Can you build a fence? If not, keep your dogs close and supervised at all times. Don't let them out at dusk or after dark.

Other advice is good to remove food sources and in general make the place uncomfortable for him. Put out wind chimes that make noise. I know for deer you can put down chicken wire where they walk onto the property because they don't like to cross it. Don't know if that works for bear though.

Your best choice is to talk to your neighbors and see how they deal with the bear in their yards. We had one in the neighborhood a couple months ago. It swam over to our island and hung out for a week or so. We never saw it in our yard, but I saw poop down by the street one morning.
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