Mike Carruthers

Well, we have several.

We have a new mom, a new mama bear with her two cubs in the neighborhood.

And and we've had I've told this story before, but we've twice had bears in the house, in the kitchen, eating peanut butter out of our cupboard and and sitting down on the living room floor.

And and we're we're standing there looking at them and they're looking at us.

And they don't care, right?

Well, I don't know about that.

I think they seem to care, but not that much.

Like they've seemed worried, but not too worried.

But eventually, well, I had always heard, and this is what I wanted to ask you.

So I had always heard that the way you get rid of a bear is,

is you make a lot of noise, you make yourself big, you basically be an irritant, and they get up and leave.

And that's what I did both times, and that's exactly what happened.

They got up and left.

I don't think I was intimidating, but I was being annoying.

Yes, I'm aware of that in two occasions.

The screen doors don't mean anything to them.

Right.

Yes.

We've been warned of that in this area.

And there was an attack of a guy who just accidentally happened to hike through and was in between mama and her cubs and mama went after him and he survived.