(meteorobs) SIMPLE & VERY CHEAP SOLUTION for animal hazards.

[GLDSKTR at aol.com]

I love animals, and I'd never do anything to hurt one. But if one's  
attacking, I won't hesitate to put him down. He will try to put me down  first.
 
Ant
 
 
 
In a message dated 11/3/2009 12:11:23 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
GeoZay at aol.com writes:

>>But I wouldn't give up my close connection with bears,  cougars,  and 
coyotes for the world. <<

I like the  wilderness myself, but I get quite squirelly over mountain 
lions 
and  bears. I've never had an encounter with a bear while observing...just  
the  worry that I might. However, I've had quite a few bear  encounters 
while 
doing  other endeavors...such as back packing and  gold prospecting. I 
worry 
about  bears mainly on account they often  just mess things up. Over the 
years, I've had  them tear tents up,  chew water bottles up, chew plastic 
gas 
cans up, eat dirty  underwear  up, tear my back pack to shreds, raid food 
sacks 
that were properly   hung and the list goes on. My last bear encounter was 
2 
or 3 years ago  while  gold dredging along the Yuba river in california. I 
woke up to  a loud shredding  noise when a large bear was tearing into my  
partners tent. They were gone at the  time...luckily. After shooing  it 
off, it 
came back 2 hours later to the same  spot...Last year, a  bear stole a 
backpack off my partners quad and ran off with  it. Most  of us would write 
the 
backpack off, but it just so happens that they   had 2 ounces of gold in 
the 
pack. So...needless to say, they did about  45  minutes of searching and 
found 
the pack...and the gold. :O) As  for coyotes, I  never gave them much 
thought 
and kinda enjoyed their  presence really.
GeoZay