Encounter with bear at East Mountains home

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) - An East Mountains' family got quite the surprise while eating breakfast.

Anne Marie says she looked out her window Monday and saw a young bear standing up against her front door pawing at the handle. She says the bear wandered around their back porch. All the while, she and her three little boys were inside.

"I think my legs were shaking a little bit and I was just like, grab the children and hide," Anne Marie said. Anne Marie says the bear was just as aggressive at several other houses in the neighborhood.

The Forest Service says it can't risk moving the bear because they're worried it may try and find its way back to the neighborhood and get hit by a car.

https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerque-metro/family-describes-suspenseful-encounter-with-bear-at-east-mountains-home/1370109711

[2naSalit]

1. Okay...

so you move into a wildlife interface zone and you have no clue as to how you might protect yourself and your family from harmful effects of the habitat you encroached upon? Chickenshit people with oo much money and not enough brain power to recognize just the slightest bit of reality.

It reminds me of those folks in southern California who think that because they moved there, some skydaddy will change the desert into a flourishing, green paradise for them even though it's been a fucking desert since way before they ever showed up.

Sorry, wildlife advocate here, I just have to rant about it once in a while.

[Bluepinky]

2. Yes, we take over their habitat and wonder why they are there?

Climate change and overpopulation is affecting all the creatures in the world, not just humans. Bears, mountain lions, etc. will be looking for food and water sources wherever they can, now that their natural sources are gone.

[Bayard]

3. Happening to the mountain lions...

When I lived down the road from Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks, the mountain lions were coming down to the lower levels to find food. Too much upheaval in their environments. It was usually the young stupid ones, or the old guys that couldn't chase anything down anymore. They'd nab the occasional sheep or goat. Local people loved to show their photos of ones they'd shot.

One time I was driving down the mountain on 180, and got behind a pickup that had a dead bear cub hanging out the back of the bed to finish draining the blood. They left a big sad trail, and it made me physically sick. I called the local ranger's office and was told, nothing we can do, it's legal to hunt bears here.

[2naSalit]

4. It's not like there aren't

three to four billion too many humans on the planet at this point. that "go forth and multiply in mass quantities" is so nineteenth century.