HippieLizLemon t1_isuinsc wrote on October 18, 2022 at 8:13 PM

Reply to comment by Dangerous_Benefit612 in 10-year-old boy attacked by black bear at grandparent's Connecticut home by IndicationOver

Pots and pans, yelling, air horn, waving hands high...this is text book how to scare off a Black Bear (I guess the pots and pans is specifically if it happens at home) I live in an area with TONS of black bears, including a den in my yard last year. They can be scared off and should be if people stopped interacting with them like they are friendly neighbors.

Dangerous_Benefit612 t1_isulyei wrote on October 18, 2022 at 8:33 PM

I've tried it all, they just stare at us. I can send you videos, it's intimidating. They truly no longer fear us. For context-we live behind a plaza that has multiple dumpsters. The bears will eat out of the dumpsters as cars, trucks, rigs drive by. Also, we are convinced the bears we see are the cubs from previous years. They know the garbage route & follow it. Every Tues/Wednesday we have bears. Again, no disrespect meant, the bears in our neighborhood do not fear us. If I'm hiking, yes airhorn, whistle, pepper spray are effective, but at home, no. The only thing that works thus far is my dog barking, but even then the bear does not run off. Not being argumentative or disrespectful. Because I've experienced this repeatedly, I am in full support of a hunting season for bear.