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much for a local bruin to pass up.
The result? A few hours later, Clay came out to find the screen on one side torn apart. Both food and cat were nowhere to be found, but there was plenty of evidence left by a bear after an easy meal. Clay located the cat a few hours later, no worse for his experience - it was the cat chow, not the cat, which the bear had in mind. The next evening, the bear came back again, pushing through a make-shift barrier in hopes that we weren’t as quick to learn how to adapt to a new situation as he or she was!
Once we had a more secure patch in place, the visits ended. But we knew that we had created, or at least reinforced, a problem. It was our fault, not the bear’s — but the bear is the one who might suffer if the behavior gets repeated too often.
To Rappahannock arborist and leader of the Rappahannock Nature Camp Lyt Wood, this is all too common. “When a bear even one time gets a mouthful of food associated with a human being, you have a problem,” he said. “They will come in through screened windows and doors if they smell food”. He even knows of a small bear which came into a house in his neighborhood through a doggy door!
“I love these animals,” Wood added. “I’m really glad they’re around. But people have to learn to respect them and understand that they’re very powerful and always
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