I know, it was dumb, but the way the cars were positioned, there was only one way for him to go. And all I could think was: Get.Bear.Out.Of.Car. Hopefully there won’t be a next time. And tonight, my poor car is safely in the garage.
Yes, if my son’s car hadn’t been there blocking that side, no WAY would I have opened that door, but it sort of created a chute that turned him the other way. They are very handy with those claws. I guess he might have used them to also get OUT of the car the same way, but evidently he hit the lock button when he was clambering around, and so there was no way for him to succeed in that.
Yeah! Hopefully your bear will stay content with bird feed. It’s so warm here for this time of year, the bears aren’t hibernating yet. I can’t wait for snow!
Oh, my!!!
Don’t you guys have some poor little kid get snatched by a coyote from time to time?
Actually we don’t. DH said there’s been a few cases of coyote bites, but I can’t remember the last one. Unfortunately, we’ve seen the results of them on neighborhood cats though. 
Even though the lions are less common, rare really, there have been a few severe injuries and deaths. I remember about 30 yrs ago a little girl got grabbed by the head and pulled into the bushes. She suffered severe brain damage. And about 5-10 yrs ago a lion pulled a few guys off bicycles and um…ate them. 
BTW…the lions are out in hills and wilderness parks, the coyotes come up from a local creek into the neighborhoods. A year ago or so a coyote got in a neighbor’s yard and tried to drag her small dog over the wall. He was just a bit too heavy so he dropped the dog and ran. Needless to say we don’t let our little dog alone in our yard. Sad because she loves the yard.
Oh my!! I’m glad you are OK. Here in MI we had a black bear attack a young girl(early teens) while she was running from her house to her grandparents. The girl got away once then the bear caught up with her and attacked again. Luckily for the girl a neighbor heard her screaming and scared it off the second time. The girl is OK though she had a lot of bruises, cuts etc.
We have black bear, wolves, cougar and coyotes here in Michigan. They usually aren’t seen much but they have had a problem in the Upper Pennisula with wolves attacking livestock.
We have had a few mountain lion attacks, not right here in Truckee but lower in the foothills. A few years back a mountain lion attacked and killed a lady out jogging. And where we used to live, the kids would get kept in the inner school yard because there were so many mountain lions around.
Our dogs are big, but we keep our cats inside. Luckily there’s an upstairs deck they can go out on.
Wow! Glad she was OK, probably never wants to go outside again! We have all the same critters in Truckee (Sierra Nevada Mountain range) except I don’t think we have wolves. We did have a wolverine spotting last winter!
The worst thing is raccoons! I ran out in my nightie one night when I heard something in the garbage. I thought it was the neighbor’s dog, but a big raccoon was there, standing on its hind legs and clutching a pizza box. It had the audacity to snarl at me over the top of the box!
I tried to reply to this last night but the Kindle and or the internet was acting up and it wouldn’t let me.
No thank you!! We have occasional bear sightings here but they tend to stay way out in the woods. One year we lived in a valley and there was a mama and cubs on the hill behind our house and a large male across the road and creek and up the next hill. The kids were just little then, I didn’t let them outside alone. Jeff has seen a large black cat one more than one occasion but officially there is nothing larger than a bobcat here. Ha. I’m really glad you’re ok, and the damage wasn’t worse.
Somebody told me today that a bear got shot around here. I sort of hope it wasn’t OUR bear!
Here’s proof! Cougar by the Hollywood sign! :teehee: Not my pic, just saw it on Instagram.
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Thanks for the photo. I didn’t need proof, we get the things in populated areas in and around Seattle. It’s not an everyday occurrence but neither is it rare.
When I was a child I knew a woman who was born in Slaughter, later renamed Auburn, and was quite old then. She talked about sitting by a wagon and at some point someone realized their was a cougar in the wagon…or that’s how I remember her telling the story. I was probably about 6 at the time.
Auburn is at about the same altitude as Placerville, which is where the poor lady jogger met her demise. They say that if you have been out in the woods in the Sierras, a mountain lion has been watching you. When we went hiking and our kids were little, we wouldn’t let them run too far ahead on the trail, lest they fall prey to a cougar.
I remember a few years ago, two ladies were mountain biking in SoCal, and one got attacked by a mountain lion, and the other one came to her rescue; she was actually playing tug-o-war with the lion, who had her friends’ head in its mouth. Yikes! Stories like that mean that I never go out for a run in the woods w/o my dog.
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Hope you got it on video/film. The insurance company will never believe you!
Sometimes I’m glad I live in boring old England!
What! No bears or cougars? That is interesting!
No, biggest creature liable to be in my garden is a fox! Although I have seen several bear behinds (as they run away) hiking in New England when in the USA on holiday. The problems seem to be when people and wild creatures wish to live in the same place I guess.