[lit-ideas] Re: The Bear
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 22:23:01 -0400
However much I love my bears, and however much I'm not afraid of them, I
still would treat them respectfully, which means giving them their space,
as I would like them to give me mine. They are timid, they are used to
people, and they are easily scared, but they're still wild animals. I use
a cow bell and I say bad bear, go on, and jump up and down and they run
into the woods. I would never under any circumstances feed them, and I
think feeding them is even against the law. Once fed, the bears become
nuisances and sometimes they have to be captured and euthanized. I would
never approach them either, if for no other reason than that makes them
more vulnerable to human predation. It's so much better for the bear to be
afraid of humans. It protects both human and bear, especially since humans
don't do a good job of cohabiting with animals. The animals always lose.
My fawns are older now. Their innocence is gone. They don't have that
run-just-to-run energy anymore, and where the one fawn a few months ago
stared at me in amazement when I was mowing, like it had never seen
anything like that before, this time I was in the house and the fawn saw me
through the window and it stopped, froze and they all ran away. Can't stop
time. A buck with a small rack came by the other day. Anyway, here's a
site on black bears:
http://www.bear.org/Black/BB_Home.html
http://www.bear.org/Black/Articles/How_Dangerous_are_Black_Bears.html
> [Original Message]
> From: Carol Kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 8/21/2006 7:01:08 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The Bear
>
> (Yikes! Grizzly Man started like this.)
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> Mr. Bear isn't your friend, Eric.
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> Mom
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eric Yost" <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 12:55 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] The Bear
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> > Just now, as I was writing some blather to the List, I looked out the
> > window into the hillside garden beside the house where I am vacationing.
> >
> > A large black bear was climbing up the hill to the orchard on top. I've
> > seen other black bears. This one was mature, large, and quite fat with
a
> > very shiny coat.
> >
> > I left the blather on the computer, grabbed a 12-gauge shotgun and a
> > couple rounds of shotgun slugs, and went up the hill after it.
> >
> > The bear was sitting in a patch of tall grass on the northern side of
the
> > orchard. I stood about twenty-five feet from it. It moved away a few
feet
> > and turned to look at me. I stood my ground and said, "Hi!"
> >
> > It cocked its head. I waved and said "Bear!" The bear stepped forward a
> > bit, and settled down again in the tall grass, facing me. I stood there
> > for half a minute watching it, then came down the hill to write this.
> >
> > Extremely odd behavior. Black bears are nonaggressive and scare easily.
> > When I said "Hi" to it, I expected that it would take off into the
> > mountain. Instead it showed some curiosity, settled down, and kept an
eye
> > on me. Must be getting used to people.
> >
> > I'm glad there's a bear in the orchard. May it grow even fatter and
have a
> > good sleep this winter.
> >
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