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I live in north-western Morris County, NJ, and it is bear country. When I tell folks from out of state this, they look at me like I’m crazy. Our schools have bear drills along with fire drills (the kids need to know not to run away from the bear when they see one on the playgorund). At our softball and baseball games we have bear delays, along with rain delays (the kids have to go into the safety of the cars). But when I saw this article about a cat chasing a bear up a tree (not once but twice) in a town not far from mine, well Jerseyans are known to be a tough crowd, but who know it included the cats! Odds are that bear was from New York or Penn., since he didn’t already know that turf was already claimed.
We had 2 bears in our backyard in April, during the day. I don’t normally bring out the garbage until the morning (I don’t want to encourage the bears to hang in our neighborhood, and when I do bring them out, I usually pour a little ammonia on a paper towel and put that on top of the garbage in the can.
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