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Title: The Critters are getting Bigger!
Post by: Rat Sniper (AKA: PaulT58) on December 31, 2023, 08:51:58 AM
Had this big girl visit us early this morning...

https://youtu.be/yqRlonK_QxI

Looks like she may be carring some cubs!  :o

Minutes later, this guy shows up!

https://youtu.be/RwgY5RHIi2E

I'm thinking this was last yer's cub still sticking close to Momma...
Title: Re: The Critters are getting Bigger!
Post by: Rat Sniper (AKA: PaulT58) on December 31, 2023, 09:55:11 AM
They came back this morning! 

https://youtu.be/rE-n3lU_94U

Momma just moved on, but the young one stuck around awhile...

https://youtu.be/3OYtfLZ7vMk

And just like that, the shooting portal became a bear portal!
Title: Re: The Critters are getting Bigger!
Post by: gendoc on December 31, 2023, 11:30:56 AM
oh-no !!
how did you get the youngster back out in the wild ?
did it go out thru the in door on its own ?
Title: Re: The Critters are getting Bigger!
Post by: Rat Sniper (AKA: PaulT58) on December 31, 2023, 11:39:54 AM
oh-no !!
how did you get the youngster back out in the wild ?
did it go out thru the in door on its own ?

They never go back out the same way they come in!  Fortunately, he's small enough he didn't tear the fence down as he climbed back over it to get out.  He did run back and forth a couple times trying to figure out how to get back in the woods, but only after he destroyed the live trap I use to catch rats in the corner of the back yard!  They are mischievious little guys at that age!  I'm still amazed he was able to squeeze his fatt butt through the opening!  I'm just glad Moma had already wandered off into the woods when he decided to go exploring our side of the fence, she'd have destroyed for sure!   :o
Title: Re: The Critters are getting Bigger!
Post by: Rat Sniper (AKA: PaulT58) on December 31, 2023, 03:15:38 PM
I think he got separated from Momma after he left our backyard.  He came back and decided he no longer wanted to be on camera!

https://youtu.be/Pv04z0cEfMg

I slammed the back screendoor a couple times and that scared him off before he completely destroyed it!

But, apparently the slamming screendoor wasn't enough, he came back once again!

https://youtu.be/EcN66lOOnmk

This time a shot into the 4X4 the camera is mounted to sent him running before he rearranged another camera!
Title: Re: The Critters are getting Bigger!
Post by: Sqrl Klr on December 31, 2023, 03:23:12 PM
Man am I glad I don't have those around. The hogs, coons and fox are more than enough trouble for me.
Title: Re: The Critters are getting Bigger!
Post by: Rat Sniper (AKA: PaulT58) on December 31, 2023, 03:39:19 PM
The young teenagers are the worse, they get into everything.  The mature ones pretty much keep to themselves and other than the occasional plowing through a fence, they are mostly non-destructive!  Well, if you keep your trash cans locked up!  ;D
Title: Re: The Critters are getting Bigger!
Post by: NorCal David on December 31, 2023, 03:39:58 PM
We live in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and a Bear was raiding our garbage tote every week for two months. Ammonia on a shop rag helped some. But we have not been bothered for the last two months, so all is fine. I have beehives inside an electric fence and the bears have left that alone. Our mountain lioness has moved her den away, so the deer are back in numbers. Love living here; every day is a new day.
Title: Re: The Critters are getting Bigger!
Post by: gendoc on December 31, 2023, 03:41:41 PM
Man am I glad I don't have those around. The hogs, coons and fox are more than enough trouble for me.
i agree on that....but there have been honey bears in the swamps around my farm.
friend of mine gotta pic of 2 cubs on his trail cam over hog bait which includes molasses, corn and
 kool-aid. :o
Title: Re: The Critters are getting Bigger!
Post by: Rat Sniper (AKA: PaulT58) on December 31, 2023, 03:44:22 PM
NOOO!  The bear cubs drank the Koolaid????   :o  :P  ;D
Title: Re: The Critters are getting Bigger!
Post by: gendoc on December 31, 2023, 03:49:42 PM
NOOO!  The bear cubs drank the Koolaid????   :o  :P  ;D
they were carry'n.....trump flags, sorry mod's.....i just had to do that !!!
lock me up.....i'm guilty hahaha 8)
Title: Re: The Critters are getting Bigger!
Post by: ranchibi on December 31, 2023, 06:00:35 PM
Holy moly Paul! Great videos of some abnormally huge black bears....🐻😂👍!
Title: Re: The Critters are getting Bigger!
Post by: Rat Sniper (AKA: PaulT58) on December 31, 2023, 06:04:17 PM
Holy moly Paul! Great videos of some abnormally huge black bears....🐻😂👍!

Thank you Randall!  Momma looks like she may be having triplets!   :o 
Title: Re: The Critters are getting Bigger!
Post by: avator on December 31, 2023, 07:31:19 PM
I'm not even sure what to say.... I'm just glad we don't have them here... or at least they don't visit.