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By Gerald Ochs
Rappahannock News Writer
My bear problem is over, I [think. She hasn’t been here in three or four days, and I suspect that my multi-pronged defensive techniques have proven effective.
The first thing I did was to post the area around my house with warning signs every fifty •feet, in full compliance with [the County’s new sludge ordinance. These signs don’t warn •of sludge applied to the land, [though a twelve hundred pound bear could certainly apply a lot of that, but they do warn any member of the genus •Ursa that they are not Wellcome and, should they choose Ito ignore the warnings, they [could seriously endanger their .states of mind, if not their very [well being. ; Section 2 of the anti-bear, or perhaps better referred to as the anti-bear-in-my-house•for-I-have-no-real-hatred-for- •for-I-have-no-real-hatred-forIthese-beasts, defense, is the [adaptation of a device •designed and employed some lyears back to rid my then sub; urban household of a herd of garbage-dependent, but nonetheless cute, raccoons. ; That invention, not yet • patented, involved the use of Ivarious readily available [household items that, when • combined as I did, proved to be la serious raccoon deterrent,
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