Mike Carruthers

But that's the only and that's the thing, you know, people talk about.

How dangerous it is, and yet there are virtually no encounters where anybody's ever been hurt.

It seems like they're just looking for food and they're not looking for trouble.

But it does depend on the kind of bear, right?

Grizzly bears are really dangerous, are they not?

Boy, that would be so hard to do.

That would be, that's like giving up.

Generally speaking, for example, we have a lot of coyotes in our area.

But the same rule applies in that coyotes don't seem like they're looking for trouble.

They're looking for food.

But they look nasty, or they can look nasty, and...

But is that, again, a fairly safe assumption?

If you see a coyote, I mean, people get very scared, but I don't think the coyote is that interested in you.

Well, are coyotes everywhere?

I mean, is there all over the U.S.

So there's always this question because there's always somebody in the neighborhood you hear that's, you know, feeding the wildlife.

You know, they leave food out for the bears or whatever.

And you think that can't be a good idea.

Well, there is often this attitude, and it may be correct, but when you tell people about scary encounters in and around your home with animals, with wild animals...

You often get that, well, they were there first.