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BEARS TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT


Avoiding and solving encounters with bears

People have the responsibility of avoiding conflicts with this wild animal. Learning effective measures to prevent those problems will help both parties. The best way to avoid problems is to not attract them in the first place.

The following measures will help prevent this problem around the home, cottage, and business, and when camping or hiking in the woods.

At your home, cottage or business

THOSE WILD ANIMALS are attracted to homes, cottages and businesses mainly by garbage and bird feeders. Pet food, charcoal grills, fruit trees and gardens also attract them. Once they find food around your home, it will likely return.

You should never feed them, as the animal will then associate people with food, and may become a problem.

Once they become accustomed to receiving food from people its aggressiveness can lead to personal injuries or property damage.

Once this occurs, the animal is either relocated to an unfamiliar environment where its chance of survival decreases, or it is destroyed.


BEAR RELOCATION/HOW THEY DO THAT !!!



To minimize problems on your property:

  • reduce garbage odours. Rinse food cans and wrappers before disposal;

  • do not leave pet food outside;

  • compost only vegetable scraps; never compose meat or fish;

  • keep odorous scraps such as meat and fish in your freezer until garbage pickup day;

  • wash garbage cans regularly, and use lime or baking soda to reduce odours;

  • keep garbage cans in a bear-proof container or in a closed garage until the morning of pickup;

  • remove bird feeders especially those with suet by early April, as they come out of hibernation in spring and are particularly hungry;

  • keep barbecue grills and picnic tables clean; and

  • use energized electric fencing to keep them out of beehives, gardens, fruit trees and berry patches.

    Note: these tips on pet food, bird feeders and garbage handling are also effective in reducing problems with raccoons, skunks, coyotes and foxes.

    Remember: the presence of barking dogs, bright lights and noisemakers will sometimes discourage them from coming into an area.

    If the animal does come into your yard, don’t panic. Don’t shoot it, and don’t approach it.

    Wildlife experts say that we need to learn to tolerate and live with them. Many of them are killed or injured when not causing problems; sometimes they are simply travelling through an area.

    BEAR PROCESSING



    Most of them fear people, and will leave when they see you. However, if the animal woofs, snaps its jaws, slaps the ground or brush, or bluff charges , then you are too close. If you find yourself in this situation, back away slowly, go inside and wait for him to leave. If you have a dog, do not let it outside.

    If he refuse to leave:

  • make loud noises, or throw something to scare it away; and

  • always allow it an escape route.

    If the animal climb in a tree:

  • leave it alone. The animal will usually go away when it feels safe;

  • have people leave the area; and

  • remove your dog from the area.



    (credit: Department of Natural Resources, New-Brunswick)

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