A black bear, scared waaaaaaay up a tree (twice!), was able to escape only when owner Donna Dickey called her cat, Jack, into the house."We used to joke, 'Jack's on duty', never knowing he'd go after a bear," Dickey says. "He doesn't want anybody in his yard."
Note yonder orange blob on the bottom of the photo at right. That is Jack, scourge of all bears.
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That is freakin' hilarious.
I could use that cat around here.
You are beset with bears?????
There's one that has come close to the house a few times this spring. It got into the trash. We ran into each other in the woods a while ago; he ran one direction, and I took off in the other. It isn't much of a nuisance, really.
The coyote pack is a bigger worry because we have a horse and some smaller animals like chickens and pigs. Not mention two young girls (whereas there are no documented wolf attacks on humans in North America, coyotes are opportunists who have gone after kids here in Maine). My oldest daughter came inside yesterday to tell me there was a coyote in the pasture, but by the time I got my shoes on and my Winchester down and loaded, it was long gone. Oh well, I'm a lousy shot anyway and probably would have wasted the bullet.
the mice out at the Jordan ranch beat up the cats.
Almost forgot...Steve Allan is always after me to post a disclaimer to the effect that not everyone in Maine lives out in the sticks and keeps livestock. There.
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