For Murph re: Bear Interactions

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Wonder why bears are being used in so many TV commercials?

Way too cute.....until they want to negotiate their union contract,

Yeah, which they are not shy to take out of your hide.

Oh, taking it out of your hide is what agents are for - they want their 10%!

[MurphOnMillerAve]

...however, these do not know when to stop.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

...however, these do not know when to stop.

Agents never do!

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Wisdom from the hinterlands .

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Wisdom from the hinterlands .

Good music on Hinterland,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4_1iSwu-s4

[HONDO74]

Yorkie saves child from coyote attack
https://www.ky3.com/2021/07/23/yorkie-s ... te-attack/

TORONTO (CTV Network) -The bravery of a tiny dog protecting its 10-year-old owner from a coyote was caught on camera.

A Yorkshire terrier, a breed that generally weighs from five to seven pounds, took on a wild animal several times its size.

The surveillance footage shows Lily Kwan scream for help while pulling Macy, her 6-year-old rescue Yorkie, by the leash while a coyote chases them.

The 10-year-old had recently seen postings of warnings that a coyote was chasing kids in the neighborhood.

“I thought, ‘Am I next, what is going to happen to me?’” Lily said.

She says she had to drop the leash because Macy would not follow her.

“I ran to the sidewalk and started screaming for help, and no one heard me,” she said. “I just saw this coyote trying to attack my dog, and I tried to ring people’s door bells and knock on people’s doors. But this one neighbor actually let me in.”

Macy turns around and confronts the coyote, protecting Lily, the video shows.

She says she is shocked at the boldness of the coyote.

“I would never guess that a coyote, you know, would come out during the day and especially with someone screaming and yelling it still was not fazed,” Dorothy Kwan said. “It just kept coming after her and our dog, you know, despite all the yelling. It was quite aggressive.”

Dorothy Kwan says there were other coyote sightings in the neighborhood. She was told the ministry is tracking the coyotes with electronic collars.

She says she is frustrated no one will trap them but feels lucky Macy survived and protected Lily.

[v8vega]

I'm in a regular urban neighborhood. there is a big several sq. blocks water & power tank near me. A coyote lives there I and many others have seen him several times.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

“I would never guess that a coyote, you know, would come out during the day and especially with someone screaming and yelling it still was not fazed,”

Most wild animals are pretty fearless or indifferent until a real threat is present. Noise isn't.

[HONDO74]

[HONDO74]

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Nice sign; too bad our literacy and reading comprehension rates compromise its effectiveness. Now if you would only put that on their smart phones such that it pops up just before they stumble in over the railing, then it might work.....but no, they'd still have to read it. Never mind. Feed the bears....

[chuck]

From the Los Angeles area:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0OV4FA5ZJA

Up in "the valley", Porter Ranch buts up against the Santa Susanna Mountains which are sandwiched between the Santa Monica Mountains (south) and the back range to the north.

[v8vega]

The big church I go to is across the boulevard from that shopping center and Ralphs market. There are mountains behind but houses in between and people everywhere. The Ralphs is in a big shopping center

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The Ralphs is in a big shopping center

And is that where the bears do their shopping?

[chuck]

And is that where the bears do their shopping?

Another good laugh, thanks!

I think the most astounding thing about the incident was the dichotomy of people in the store with about 1/3 trying to run away and the other 2/3 "chasing" the cub with their cell phones trying to get pictures. He was moving pretty fast to get away from them, especially once he saw the exit.

Wildlife in the LA basin has been getting less intimidated by people over the last 10 years. My daughter sent a home security camera video of a cub moving through a friend of her's property in Altadena, a community just north of Pasadena that buts up to the foothills of the San Bernardino mountains. There is a lone female cougar that lives on Mount Verdugo (she has been spotted on wildlife video cams that monitor the mountain) and there have been reports of multiple cougars coming down into the San Bernardino foothills and hanging out on peoples porches. Adult bears have been sighted using pools and jacuzzi's up in subdivisions up in the hills apparently to cool off from the oppressive heat. A lot of the California "Black" bears are rust colored and significantly larger (300-400 lbs) than their east cost cousins and are often mistaken for grizzlies. No true grizzles in California anymore and grizzly's are actually quite larger (400-800 lb). Coyotes now roam the subdivisions.