No but I did see The Great Outdoors with John Candy.

 

We had a couple in our area over the summer. Not the norm. I saw your bear on the news, Grant.

 

Yup, the campers were in the Grizzly's home and at this time of the year Grizzly's are busy getting food ahead of hibernation.

I remember being in Tennessee many years and people would always say Black bears were safer, and they don't tend to bother with humans. But we always heard stories of people being attacked by Black bears there too.

 

You should have gotten him a couple of bagels from Bas Ass Coffee which is next door.

 

Yup any wild animal is unpredictable. My friends lost their dog to a bear last year. One swipe of their paw is all it takes to break a jaw or neck.
I came home one afternoon and there were two cubs in my front yard, I hit the horn to scare them away and they climbed up the tree in the front yard. I looked to my left and here came Mama so I backed away and let them regroup and take off.

 

I didn't know bears lived in Florida.

What's the difference between a Florida black bear and a black bear?
The Florida black bear (Ursus americanus floridanus), is one of 16 subspecies of the American black bear and is the only bear species in Florida. While other subspecies of the American black bear can have different coat colors from black to blonde to cinnamon, Florida black bears are black furred.


Florida black bear in Naples

People on "Nextdoor" in my neighborhood posted bear videos about two weeks ago. I think I'm a little too far from Buckhorn Creek and don't have the trees for shelter that they have. I only had a loose and lost llama walking through my yard Sept 24th.

 

I just spent a week in northern Montana and didn’t see one bear. Not one! Would have been happy from a distance.

sitting in Salt Lake City waiting for the red eye home. I suspect I may take the first steps of dumping memory cards and doing some initial pic sorting tomorrow.

 

I seen one bear in my life, it was a black bear in the Gatlinburg area of TN, I was driving and he was on the side of the road looking at the rolling river that was along the roadway. I was so surprised I wasn't sure if I had to report it to the park rangers in Smokey National Park, but common sense settled in and told me that was likely a very normal experience there.

 

I just realized I owe Dave and Grant an apology. I'm not sure the Yearling was published when they were in the 7th grade.
I know the movie was 1945

 

That was two years before I was born. I did however read and watch The Yearling. Poor Flag.
Old Yeller was my bummer.