Ok as someone who lives in Black Bear Intense Country:
-Practice Situational Awareness- When outside, stop every few minutes and reveiw your surroundings. What do you See? Smell? Hear? Feel? Can you taste anything? practicing being aware of your surroundings is the #1 thing you can do to improve your safety- regarding wildlife, humans, traffic etc.Â
-Make note of when and where you see the bears. bears are very much creatures of habit and tend to be at the same places at the same times. My local sow would never come out before 10PM when the restaurants closed- after that, the humans had left and the dumpsters were full.
-Avoid making your home smell like a bear buffet. Keep your garbage cans inside the garage, only putting them out right before the trash pickup arrives. If you have a communal dumpster like at an apartment complex, only take your trash out in the middle of the day when you are unlikely to encounter them. Suspend any composting youâre doing until November. Â
-Bears can be discouraged from breaking into houses with motion-activated lights and sprinklers that come on at different times at night over the week.
-If you need to be outside regularly (we are still in Quarentine, but I understand we have dogs and cabin fever) make lots of noise- bear bells, singing, talking loudly on your phone with someone. This will alert bears of your approach and avoid surprising them, which is when most dangerous encounters occur.
-Also Carry Bear Spray. I ended up using it on my neigborhood roaming feral dogs rather than the bears, but it also works on coyotes, rabid skunks, frat boys and other nighttime menaces.
-In the event that you do end up close (AKA, Less Than 300ft) to a bear, stand up straight, and walk backwards exactly the way you came. Black bears, even urbanized ones, arenât terribly aggressive and the majority are willing to stay put or back off if they see you respecting thier space. Â
-In the event it does come closer, scream, throw anything you can at it as hard as possible and hold up your jacket to make yourself look bigger. if the bear is within 20ft of you, use bear spray as instructed on the can. in the extremely unlikely event that all of this does not discourage the bear, your best odds to survive are to fight back- bludgeon, stab, kick or otherwise hit the black bear as hard as possible, in the face if possible. (itâs gizzlies you curl into a ball and protect your face/head from)
Bear attacks are extremely rare, and black bears are the least dangerous of the north american bears, but getting between a sow and her cub is the most likely circumstance. Stay alert, carry and know how to use bear mace and be ready to beat her like Cain taking a rock to Abel if push really comes to shove.
but yeah, #1 thing? Stay indoors like you are already doing for quarentine.Â
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