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Post by stone on Feb 26, 2020 13:52:02 GMT -5
A friend who owns a home inspection business found this a couple weeks ago while under a house in a crawl space.
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Post by slomo on Feb 26, 2020 14:02:34 GMT -5
He must be a cool customer to hang around long enough to take a picture - hibernating or not. Of course, without the evidence few would believe it! Or was it reduced to rug status?
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Post by Cramptholomew on Feb 26, 2020 14:06:22 GMT -5
Is it a bear suit?
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Post by toshtego on Feb 26, 2020 14:10:04 GMT -5
That appears to be a hibernating Black Bear.
Do Not Distrub!
I would be so honored!! All I have a bunch feral cats lving in my crawl space.
If it were my, I would have a large pan of water and another pan with good quality dog kibble ready for when the bruin awakes. They tend to be hungry and grouchy. So, let's get him fed and waterd so he can go off to his next adventure. Or hang around and become one of the family. That works for me., too.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2020 14:14:00 GMT -5
No, that is a relive Gentle Ben episodes for free starter kit.
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Post by pepesdad1 on Feb 26, 2020 15:21:09 GMT -5
Bear under the house? I'm afraid to go look after being away for 2 months...long as it isn't a gator, I'm fine!
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Post by roadsdiverged on Feb 26, 2020 15:41:46 GMT -5
I've found rattle snakes and several other species, opposums, raccoons, cats, dogs, scorpions, and probably 50 lbs of spiders... but never a bear!! Oh my!
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Post by sperrytops on Feb 26, 2020 16:02:59 GMT -5
... and bears, oh my!
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Post by stone on Feb 26, 2020 16:13:37 GMT -5
He must be a cool customer to hang around long enough to take a picture - hibernating or not. Of course, without the evidence few would believe it! Or was it reduced to rug status? Right before hibernating they are very aggressive in their quest for food.
This past December we had a somewhat rogue bear in our deer hunting camp and it was becoming more and more aggressive with it's feeding. It ate a deer hanging in a tree our first night there, and we were getting pictures of it on security cams right outside the door just minutes after someone drove in and entered the camp. We were there for a week so we had to find something to do with our garbage. After it ate the deer, I rigged up a pulley about 18 feet high in a tree and 6-8 feet out away from the trunk to hang the garbage until we could take it somewhere; I thought this was good enough.....I was wrong!
They are far more afraid of us than we are of them, but the camp I was at is in the Allegheny National Forest and there is zero ambient light there so it is often absolute darkness. The thought of going to the truck to get a case of beer or something takes on a whole new meaning!
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Post by kxg on Feb 26, 2020 16:18:28 GMT -5
I'll have to show this to my granddaughter. When she was 2 1/2 she was convinced a bear lived in their basement. She was sort of quiet about it all, never really making a big deal, but just avoiding parts of the basement. Several years later, our daughter's family was planning a move to Blacksburg, VA. Our granddaughter asked her, "are there bears in Virginia?", to which our daughter replied, "no". Fortunately, they never had a bear encounter on the slopes of the Blue Ridge!
A bear hibernating under the house might give one pause.
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Post by stone on Feb 26, 2020 17:12:00 GMT -5
That appears to be a hibernating Black Bear. Do Not Distrub! I would be so honored!! All I have a bunch feral cats lving in my crawl space. If it were my, I would have a large pan of water and another pan with good quality dog kibble ready for when the bruin awakes. They tend to be hungry and grouchy. So, let's get him fed and waterd so he can go off to his next adventure. Or hang around and become one of the family. That works for me., too. I certainly wouldn't prescribe that. We have a growing problem in the area of my hunting camp with bears becoming too familiar with man due to people feeding them. Just like the one at my camp last December it was hanging around the camp just feet from the from door because it smelled food and had become accustomed to eating human food. There hasn't been a mauling yet but there have been several incidents where people have stumbled on a bear late at night just feet from their camp and were put in a bad situation, one having a heart attack. His closest neighbor had been feeding the bear donuts and thought it was cute. |
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Post by stone on Feb 26, 2020 17:13:48 GMT -5
I'll have to show this to my granddaughter. When she was 2 1/2 she was convinced a bear lived in their basement. She was sort of quiet about it all, never really making a big deal, but just avoiding parts of the basement. Several years later, our daughter's family was planning a move to Blacksburg, VA. Our granddaughter asked her, "are there bears in Virginia?", to which our daughter replied, "no". Fortunately, they never had a bear encounter on the slopes of the Blue Ridge! A bear hibernating under the house might give one pause. That's funny! This picture was under a house in  Virginia. |
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Post by Legend Lover on Feb 26, 2020 17:29:49 GMT -5
Boy am I glad I live in Ireland!
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Post by toshtego on Feb 29, 2020 9:42:08 GMT -5
I'll have to show this to my granddaughter. When she was 2 1/2 she was convinced a bear lived in their basement. She was sort of quiet about it all, never really making a big deal, but just avoiding parts of the basement. Several years later, our daughter's family was planning a move to Blacksburg, VA. Our granddaughter asked her, "are there bears in Virginia?", to which our daughter replied, "no". Fortunately, they never had a bear encounter on the slopes of the Blue Ridge! A bear hibernating under the house might give one pause. That's funny! This picture was under a house in Virginia. In this area, the ones which hang around usually end up becoming rugs, |
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Post by trailboss on Feb 29, 2020 11:37:42 GMT -5
That would definitely raise the pulse while down there on your hands and knees....yipes!
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Post by kbareit on Feb 29, 2020 12:32:32 GMT -5
I've been in many crawl spaces and came across some critters but finding a bear would do me in.
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Post by pepesdad1 on Feb 29, 2020 12:49:06 GMT -5
I've been in many crawl spaces and came across some critters but finding a bear would do me in. Hope you never run into one of those critters while you are working, Ken...toilet paper, please is what I would be saying, too. |
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Post by kbareit on Feb 29, 2020 13:19:52 GMT -5
I've been in many crawl spaces and came across some critters but finding a bear would do me in. Hope you never run into one of those critters while you are working, Ken...toilet paper, please is what I would be saying, too. I've had rats and mice run over me and even a 40lb raccoon try to eat me and was no big deal. The one thing that will freak me out is if I see a roach. If I spot a roach I gather my tools up, go home and strip in the driveway leaving everything in the van and have it bombed to kill anything that might have come along for the ride. So far nothing has come home with me and invaded my house after all the years I've dealt with it. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 29, 2020 13:29:16 GMT -5
Only thing under my house is armadillos, possums, cats, wasps, stray cats and dogs, spiders, and the occasional cockroach. 😁
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Post by pepesdad1 on Feb 29, 2020 14:22:12 GMT -5
Haven't looked under my meager dwelling lately...skirting usually keeps larger critters from invading but mice and squirrels I'm sure have invaded the space as it stays warm and dry underneath. Sometimes I hear them in the walls...long as they don't come inside they are welcome to their "home"...everybody needs a place to feel safe and secure even the small critters on my property. Cats feel comfortable enough to come a stretch out on the deck and enjoy the sun warming their bodies. Fence pretty much keeps stray dogs from entering although we've had a few pitbulls burrow underneath the chain link fence...seems their tough skins don't seem to mind the fencing scratching their backs.
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Post by Legend Lover on Feb 29, 2020 14:39:18 GMT -5
The way houses over here are built, the only living thing under my house is worms.
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Post by stone on Mar 1, 2020 7:11:14 GMT -5
Hope you never run into one of those critters while you are working, Ken...toilet paper, please is what I would be saying, too. I've had rats and mice run over me and even a 40lb raccoon try to eat me and was no big deal. The one thing that will freak me out is if I see a roach. If I spot a roach I gather my tools up, go home and strip in the driveway leaving everything in the van and have it bombed to kill anything that might have come along for the ride. So far nothing has come home with me and invaded my house after all the years I've dealt with it. Ken, I laughed out loud at your post and quite frankly, I am shocked that you could deal with a coon in a confined space
On a primitive camping trip In the ANF in Pa., I heard something around the area we had set up for cooking and when I shined the flashlight I saw a huge coon. I was never concerned about coons because I could always get rid of them by shuffling my feet, charging them and yelling. This one was undeterred so I got a .22 revolver and gave it all six. That did nothing but piss him off! So the guy who took that picture of the bear was with me and he got out his .17 rifle and while I held the flash light on this growling coon he shot it right between the eyes. The next 90 second were the most frightened I have ever been of an animal! This thing went stark raving mad, blindly charging us and tearing up the ground all around. Despite having the .22 reloaded and on my hip, I chose to run!
After the coon died from blood loss, the three of us were in utter amazement and decided to have a beer to celebrate making the woods a little safer for our remaining two days. About 30 seconds into the beer, I said "ah shite" and when they looked at me, I said "now we have to clean up that mess and get rid of that coon so we don't attract a bear!"
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Post by trailboss on Mar 1, 2020 10:03:52 GMT -5
Wow, that was a tough coon!
It sounds like he was jacked up on meth.
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Post by stone on Mar 1, 2020 10:06:52 GMT -5
Wow, that was a tough coon! It sounds like he was jacked up on meth. I'm pretty sure it was sick but I was terrified at what it was capable of with a bullet in it's brain and a few in it's body! |
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Post by trailboss on Mar 1, 2020 10:19:02 GMT -5
Yeah, when they show no fear of humans, things aren’t right. A few years back a bobcat walked into a bar in Cottonwood Az. and a knucklehead (along with others) decided to take a selfie with predictable results... he got bit and scratched pretty good before he had to get treated for rabies infection. archive.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2009/03/26/20090326bobcatbar0327.htmlAfter rereading the story, I guess they weren’t taking selfies...back when it was reported on the tv news they took editorial liberties and framed the story that way. |
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Post by kbareit on Mar 1, 2020 10:31:26 GMT -5
I've had rats and mice run over me and even a 40lb raccoon try to eat me and was no big deal. The one thing that will freak me out is if I see a roach. If I spot a roach I gather my tools up, go home and strip in the driveway leaving everything in the van and have it bombed to kill anything that might have come along for the ride. So far nothing has come home with me and invaded my house after all the years I've dealt with it. Ken, I laughed out loud at your post and quite frankly, I am shocked that you could deal with a coon in a confined space
On a primitive camping trip In the ANF in Pa., I heard something around the area we had set up for cooking and when I shined the flashlight I saw a huge coon. I was never concerned about coons because I could always get rid of them by shuffling my feet, charging them and yelling. This one was undeterred so I got a .22 revolver and gave it all six. That did nothing but piss him off! So the guy who took that picture of the bear was with me and he got out his .17 rifle and while I held the flash light on this growling coon he shot it right between the eyes. The next 90 second were the most frightened I have ever been of an animal! This thing went stark raving mad, blindly charging us and tearing up the ground all around. Despite having the .22 reloaded and on my hip, I chose to run!
After the coon died from blood loss, the three of us were in utter amazement and decided to have a beer to celebrate making the woods a little safer for our remaining two days. About 30 seconds into the beer, I said "ah shite" and when they looked at me, I said "now we have to clean up that mess and get rid of that coon so we don't attract a bear!"
I was close enough to the exit I was able to get out unscathed. I can't be too upset it didn't like me invading it's home. It was captured live and released in the woods several miles away. |
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