On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 21:07:22 -0400, "Jean B." > wrote:

>Brooklyn1 wrote:
>> Yesterday in my neighbor's yard...
>>
>> Here I come:
>> http://i47.tinypic.com/126d0mg.jpg
>> What's to eat:
>> http://i48.tinypic.com/2z7qw3o.jpg
>> Not much meat on this bone:
>> http://i49.tinypic.com/11ilcba.jpg
>> Ain't I a cutie:
>> http://i48.tinypic.com/2upvgvc.jpg
>> I'm a big boy:
>> http://i45.tinypic.com/zkjv2s.jpg
>
>I am sooooo envious. OTOH, I'd worry that if a bear came here, he
>just be shot.
>
>There was a black bear that came through Mass. a couple of times.
> He was deported both times. I think the second time he was
>probably trying to find his family/his habitat. That's just plain
>sad.


By "came through Mass" - I hope you mean the one in Boston/Cape Cod.
Mass has a few thousand black bears in residence.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47977117...boston-suburb/
"The Massachusetts bear population was last estimated at 3,000 in
2005, with most bears in northwest and western parts of the state,
including the Berkshires region."

Bears in populated areas can never end well- either for the bear, or
for the humans, or both. I think any bear in a city/suburb should
be sent to the food pantry.

Jim