!!!

[ilanarama]

There is a bear cub in my front yard!

ETA:


Also, the answer to the age-old question is apparently: No, he shits in my yard.

Comments

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

OMG! Wow. That's... WOW.

And that probably means there's a mama bear somewhere in the vicinity.

*huge eyes*

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Photo added! And, alas, no mama bear. There was an article in the paper just this morning that quoted a local state wildlife officer as saying that they'd seen lots of cubs wandering on their own, presumably because their mamas couldn't feed them in these drought conditions.

[stoneself.livejournal.com]

oooooooooo
that's so cool

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Cool, but a little sad for the poor bear who ought to be up in the mountains.

[revbiscuit.livejournal.com]

Crickey. There's an empty Walker's crisps packet in mine. And a cat. Urban tiger, I mean.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Hee. Our cat freaked the hell out.

[aubrem.livejournal.com]

!!!!!, omg, where is the mom?? Don't go out there! You could take a pic through the window though. : D

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

There was an article in the paper just this morning that quoted a local state wildlife officer as saying that they'd seen lots of cubs wandering on their own, presumably because their mamas couldn't feed them in these drought conditions.

And I've added the best of the photos we took!

[triestine.livejournal.com]

!! What do you do about that?

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Britt threw rocks at it and chased it back to the closest bit of mountain park, which is what you're supposed to do. The idea is to make it not want to mix with people and eat their trash.

[libitina]

Awww!

As long as it stays away from the house and the truck, it sounds adorable.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

It actually was - see the added photo! It looked cuddly.

[hwrnmnbsol.livejournal.com]

"You young cubs get offa my lawn!"

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Youngsters nowadays!

[dipping_sauce]

!!

Take a picture! (From inside!)

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

See ETA!

!!!

[coeursaignant.livejournal.com]

OMG!!! This sounds.. nice IN THEORY, but ahhhhhhhhhh! Holy Moly!!

Re: !!!

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he's awfully cute, but, BEAR!

[thalia]

Oh, cool! I'm surprised it got that close to the town.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

I am not sure where he wandered down from! It's not that far to the national forest, though. And this has been a very bad year for bears in town. They are knocking over garbage cans all over, walking through the neighborhoods...there was a late freeze and then a drought, and so the nuts and berries they usually depend on are sparse.

[trobadora]

OMG!!!!!

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

I KNOW!

[tofty.livejournal.com]

*locks your doors*
*runs around in circles*
*smashes into door frame*

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's sort of what my cat did.

[eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com]

It's after your honey. ;)

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Hee. My honey went after it with rocks and wished he had his pellet gun. I suspect though that all our scare tactics won't keep him away for long, and sooner or later he'll get hit by a car or shot by the Dept. of Wildlife for being a nuisance.

[alembicresearch.livejournal.com]

So where is mama bear?

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

There was an article in the paper just this morning that quoted a local state wildlife officer as saying that they'd seen lots of cubs wandering on their own, presumably because their mamas couldn't feed them in these drought conditions.

[bradipo.livejournal.com]

Don't feed it porridge or let it sleep in your bed. That never turns out well.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Hee! Now I know why my chair's all broken!

[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

Eeeeeee!

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Not a polar bear, though!

[saramwrap.livejournal.com]

Poor little guy! I hope he made it back safely to the woods and learned his lesson about those weird two-legged critters.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

I hope so, too. He's too cute.

[sdwolfpup.livejournal.com]

Your ETA is hilarious. And bear cub! Omg!

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

You wouldn't laugh so hard if you saw the steaming pile he left on the lawn! Wild bear scat isn't so bad, usually (hi, I hike a lot in bear country) but trash-eating bears, yuck.

[delurker.livejournal.com]

!!! indeed! What a great photo. It looks like the bear's just nonchalently ambling along.

Also, I am glad your cat was sensible and not at all like that ccrazy cat that chased a bear up a tree (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/06/060613-cat-bear.html).

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Aw, that poor scared bear! Our cat usually chases much bigger cats, and small dogs, but Britt lifted her up so she could see the bear out the window, and as soon as the bear made eye contact with her she "turned inside out" and LEAPED out of his arms and scurried under a bed.

[jeddy83.livejournal.com]

Talk about backyard wildlife.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

We have seen deer in the yard before, but not bears! Aie!

[starfishchick]

Belated HOLY COW.

[idlerat.livejournal.com]

So cute... sooooooo cuuuuuuuute!