I love bears. Had the great pleasure of meeting (and hugging) Smokey Bear twice when I was a kid - that made a big impression. Would love to get one for a pet but you have to get them when they are just born (eyes still closed) to get a good imprint - they can turn wild as an adult if you do not. Here are two fun bear stories.
First from the Denver, CO FOX News:
Dine and dash: Bear breaks into shop near Estes Park, enjoys pies
The Colorado Cherry Company has been a fixture along U.S. 36 near Estes Park for decades.
The family business has seen its fair share of visitors through the years. But one visitor ate the goods and made a gigantic mess at the same time overnight Monday into Tuesday.
It turns out bears like pies. A lot.
More:
"Cherry and apple was his favorite. He passed over the strawberry rhubarb," Kristi said. "Maybe he wasn't feeling like a tart pie, I guess," Lehnert said.
Second, from USA Today:
Bear drinks 36 cans of favorite beer
Rain-eeeeer .... Bear? When state Fish and Wildlife agents recently found a black bear passed out on the lawn of Baker Lake Resort, there were some clues scattered nearby — dozens of empty cans of Rainier Beer.
The bear apparently got into campers' coolers and used his claws and teeth to puncture the cans. And not just any cans.
"He drank the Rainier and wouldn't drink the Busch beer," said Lisa Broxson, bookkeeper at the campground and cabins resort east of Mount Baker.
And a bit more:
A wildlife agent tried to chase the bear from the campground but the animal just climbed a tree to sleep it off for another four hours. Agents finally herded the bear away, but it returned the next morning.
Agents then used a large, humane trap to capture it for relocation, baiting the trap with the usual: doughnuts, honey and, in this case, two open cans of Rainier. That did the trick.
These are both a year or more old but great stories and the first I heard of them.
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