So
many things happening so little time... I'm just back from a trip to
Quebec city, I'll be posting about that next week.
I'm
a chronologically oriented person so I'll post today about the events
of last week and further down, I'll be doing a lot of catching up for
a while, hopefully every thing get back to slow city for a while (but
it doesn't look that way)!
If
you read my post on the thirteen, we had visitors, 3 bears decided to
take residence in our campground. Those were not care bears nor
berenstain bears, they were 2 cubs and their mother, which was only a
teenager herself. Maybe at this point, I should talk about family
planning and safe sex but I don't know much about bear's sexuality,
so I'll just gone not say anything else on that matter!
The
games warden were call. They showed up with 2 trucks and ONE cage.
After a while they decided to setup the cage hoping that the cubs
would go in and not be heavy enough to trigger the door and then
their mother will follow and get caught.
They
didn't had food for the bear, they picked in their own lunch bag to
provided a meal to attracted the bears in the cage. By the time the
wardens left, it was around supper time, the street where they had
set the cage was blocked by a plastic fence but other than that
nothing secure.
Around
9:30 PM, I heard a big noise, I knew that the cage was now occupied,
it was dark and I didn't go to see what had been caught, I'm chicken
that way LOL
Early
in the morning, slowly I looked up and sure enough, there was 2 cubs
in the cage and the mother was outside, keeping an eyes on her kids.
So the plan didn't work!
When
the wardens came back, they decided to release the cubs across in the
mountain. It's about 5 KM (3 Miles) from the camping ground.
Apparently the mother can smell her cubs within 10 KM.
Now
I had my doubt about that, this whole family moved in where there was
no food but just 500 feet down was the all-you-can-eat-buffet, also
known as the garbage can of the camping.
The
day after the cubs where removed, one person said that he saw either
a bear or a dog... I guess he didn't had a 20/20 sight. But since
then no more sighing of this un-welcome family!
Not an happy Mama!
The cage is below the 10 Sign on the left. You can see one of the cub inside.
Hahaha, oh no, the cubs in the cage with the mother outside. That was most definitely not the optimal way of calming things down!
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Wild life doesn't go for the most optimal way too often!
DeleteBabies inside and the Mama on the out. Terrible idea and probably more stressful than things needed to be, for the bears.
ReplyDeleteAt that point, the cubs were stress, the mama was stress and the human were stressed :)
DeleteAnd that should have never been the case. They did a beyond piss poor job with this. And they should have known better than that. Wanks.
DeleteWhere is the dad? How about talking about shared parenting or child support at the very least :)
ReplyDeletePoor bears, especially mama. She must have been so stressed to see her babies trapped like that.
I heard the dad left fr another mama... wild right?
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