Wow! Thanks for that Wolfbait. I just read it but the other articles also caught my attention. I've bookmarked it and will be doing more reading on that site.
I talked to a woman who lives a few miles south of me. We got on the subject of bears. She said they had numerous bears around and they were getting bold. One of them chased her cat into the house. The door was shut and the cat went in the small cat/dog door. The black bear tried to break the door down. When it could not get past the door, it stuck its paw in the little door and raked the inside of the door gouging claw marks all over it. They stood there and watched it just a few feet away. This was several years ago but the numbers have not changed.
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