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We have a young grizzly bear roaming around my locale.I first heard about it 4 weeks ago when some friends of ours said their neighbor saw it eating a fawn on his property. It has been spotted in various areas, the closest about 5 miles from us.
Fish and Game said it's hard to catch a bear that doesn't have a regular territory as they do a lot of wandering.

Every time the dogs bark or the horses lift their heads and snort I wonder...

http://www.kulr8.com/Clip/14562523/grizzly-bear-spotted-in-athol-area
 
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Not cool....
They're beautiful - but their presence is a little terrifying.

The black bear population around me is either getting MUCH more active, or is growing VERY fast. Bear sightings 'reported' on facebook have gone from 2 or 3 a year to 2 or 3 a month!
 
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Bears are too unpredictable.

Relocation? Traveling in the high country, I am surprised every time by the increasing number of residences. They may only be occupied for a few months each year, the owner has a home elsewhere or their motor home or camp trailer comes down to the commercial campgrounds for the winter.

Wilderness creatures.

Steve
 
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I'd be nervously watching the horses too. Are your dogs outside at night? Two of mine are, they do a lot of barking, but we haven't lost a chicken or a lamb/sheep to predators. Do barking dogs even deter a bear? Or do barking dogs get stupid and run up to the bear and get swatted?
 
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@thistlebloom, do you have mountain lions in your area? We are getting an increase in sightings here. Between them and the increase in black bears, the woods aren't what they used to be.:hide
 
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The bear has been trapped and relocated.

Yes Bay, my dogs are outside in a dog run. Wren will bark at deer, rabbits and our cats. Sometimes once or twice at a moose then ducks into her doghouse.
If Larka barks along with her I take it more seriously.

@so lucky , yes we have mountain lions. Our neighbors had tracks behind their shop in the snow a winter ago, and 4 years ago our next door neighbors had one sunning itself in their driveway. They show up in town sometimes because the high deer population attracts them They are trapped and relocated, since people think it's charming to have "wild" deer eating their landscape, and "they were here first", but don't seem to have that sentiment towards the predators.
 
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