MB-Realtor

Last week the newspaper published the top 10 ways people die in Canada.

Bears did not feature on the list at all.

I very much doubt if it they would appear on the top 100 list, so there are plenty of other ways to die that you can worry about instead.

Mrs Miggins

those rabbits are just bizzare!!!!!!! There was one last summer as big as my four year old, and brilliant fun to watch, we get them white, brown and all sorts of colours here, I am sure there's been a domestic cross.....

The gophers make me laugh the most though - they rock!!!!!!!!!!!!

And we have loads of deer here, beavers live down the road from us and we are pretty sure we seen a porcupine fella too!

We love it!!!!!!!!!!

Mrs M xxx

Dave+Jules

A real eye popping moment comes when you come face to @rse with a skunk My close encounter:

We had been sitting by the fire pit all evening, doing the usual cold beer drinking, hot dog toasting when I heard a noise by the garage door. I walked up the side of the house and step around the corner on to the drive and there it was, Tail up, stamping its little feet (must have been a girl) and all the white hair drawing your eyes to a little pink bumhole .... I pause for about 2 seconds and stepped backwards around the corner ... I was lucky apparently I had quite a lengthy warning.

I need to work on my skunk reflexes no time to pause and think "ah, look a little skunk"

iaink

Ive seen a bear twice in 10 years. Both times they were smaller black bears

Once I was riding my bike in a local conservation area and it crossed in front of me about 15 feet away. Glad it was going the other way to me!

Second time was in my back yard after a neighbour tipped us off it was coming along the fence line, so I had a chance to get the video camera out.



As far as things to worry about go, I'd be far more worried about traffic, or botulism, or asthma, or being hit by a falling meteor. Bear attacks are a non issue.

The4BellsLondon

Oooh we drove past a squashed road kill skunk in Muskokas - awww the smell that permeated the car for the bext 10 mins - eeeeeurfhg!!

Dave+Jules

Yes, the one I met lived in the culvert under the road and decided to spray the bird table on night. He/ She must have met something. Anyway our air exchanger in grid is oooh 40 feet away and around a corner. Still woke us all up at 2am and made me jump out of bed and rush to the basement to turn the air exchanger off!!

(Jules is lauging and says I didn't "Jump" out of bed and "Rush" anywhere, is was more like "Struggled and then lumbered downstairs).

bazzz

And it's not easier for a bear to water-ski.

Steve_P

The water skiing part is relatively easy.

It's teaching them how to drive the boat that's difficult.

The4BellsLondon

yup - think I would prefer to sun bathe and let the bears exert themselves!!

ClareBC

See them plenty of times (behind that nice enclosure on Grouse Mtn) and we tend to get one wondering past the deck (once a year, never seen it myself thank god, that would be too close).

We live in North Vancouver (Lynn Valley).

Skunks, they have nested under our porch and racoons, bloody hell they are big beasties!

But, and I know I just posted to share this, I think our coinage shows the Canadian sense of fun. Get out a Toonie and look at it. Yep, that is the Queen with a Bear (bare) Behind

Airseir

I just talked to one of my staff that is up working for the week. He lives in Victoria but is frequently in Vancouver. His response was that you should be more scared of the the citizens than the bears. As with any big city there are good and bad people. Brian has seen bears at Stanly park and other places - but has never heard of a bad incident.

ville303

I just talked to one of my staff that is up working for the week. He lives in Victoria but is frequently in Vancouver. His response was that you should be more scared of the the citizens than the bears. As with any big city there are good and bad people. Brian has seen bears at Stanly park and other places - but has never heard of a bad incident.[/QUOTE]

I have lived here for a while now...have traversed the backwaters many a time....but have never seen a cougar, bear or moose...so I must be a good deterrent lol....In all seriousness I have read much literature and it is good to be 'bear aware' especially when it comes to managing garbage etc...but you have more chance as everyone else says of getting run over than bein attacked by a bear. Just read the literature and should you happen upon one.... run like hell!!! (just kidding)

thesidds

Never gave much thought to bears!!!! Oh no,something else to worry about
I suppose I was sub conciously (and stupidly) thinking that they stayed within the national parks

Really surprised to hear people saying they have had bear in their gardens - WOW!!!!!!!

Steve_P

The vast majority of Canadians haven't.

I've lived here 45 years and in that time I've seen three bears in the wild.

mc_dub

damn it Novo, I was just going to complain about having been mauled in a few bars around here!!