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For almost a month, folks in Enosburgh had repeatedly seen a bear with an old metal milk can stuck around its neck. Saturday, June 1, a team effort from biologists, Game Wardens and an Enosburgh resident allowed the bear to be safely captured and freed from the milk can, game wardens said June 4.
“While we’re unsure of how the bear got stuck in the can and why it was drawn to it, this story serves as an important reminder of how curious and food-driven bears are. If you live in Vermont, you live in bear country, and we are all responsible for discouraging bears from seeing our yards as food sources,” Fish & Wildlife advised readers on its Facebook post. “Coexistence is key for bears’ future in Vermont and our part in that includes keeping our food, compost and waste items cleaned up or secure.”
As bear populations expand, Vermont residents might see them more often. If you are concerned about a bear, please report a human safety situation to your local warden, regional office or through the F&W online web reporting form.
The only action that guarantees a dead bear is feeding it, intentionally or not. Each bear situation is different and there are many options to remedy a bear issue, Fish & Wildlife said.
Video, photo provided by Vermont Fish & Wildlife
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We have too many bears, we’ve had too many bears for quite some time. We don’t need to be growing the bear population any larger, thank you.
Nice job getting that one free, I’m not anti-bear, just anti-too many bears.
It is almost to the point of being too many. I hunt bears but I’m an opportunist hunter. I don’t have dogs if one passes my stand I’ll shoot. It makes me wonder how many do hunt with dog and how many bears are taken that way. I feel without dogs hunting, we might end up over the limit for bears. P.S. I’ve killed just one bear
There was another case of a bear getting his head stuck in a milk pail a few years ago. I beleive that it was then Warden Shawn Fowler that was called to extricate that bear from one of these “dangerous” milk pails. Where are the “animal rights” people on this epidemic of bear torture ? 🙂
We need to outlaw buckets and milk cans. 🙄
So, For almost a MONTH, folks in Enosburgh had repeatedly seen a bear with an old metal milk can stuck around its neck. The Game Wardens and an Enosburgh resident allowed the bear to be safely captured and freed from the milk can, game wardens. A month, yet it took a few HOURS to ki11 one simply cause they felt a bear was aggressive toward them. Which, who wouldn’t be if people presenting themselves as a danger to you?
A hungry bear merely looking for food, his/her life taken within a few hours. A poor hungry bear with a milk can for a month waiting for relief. Yeah, humans suck!
Some folks on here are incredibly backward. They view animals & animal behavior as people once did back in the pre-1960’s – it’s what their gramps taught them. My husband was exposed to it too, tho he’s insightful enough to know that university research & scientific evidence now proves the intelligence and sentient nature of animals. Most cannot let go of old ways that are now long disproven. It complicates their lives & might demand adaptability.
So, as you see on V.D.C., they go on blaming women (that’s a real stretch considering men r still largely in charge!) for their lot in life and considering animals as senseless beasts. With such attitudes, our entire family wonders who the senseless beasts actually are.
One of the best uses of my tax dollars I have seen in a long time. Totally serious.
Me too. And how people and bears are so similar – since human animal are curious and food-driven too!
And I guarantee that there have definitively been human animals who have gotten their heads stuck in buckets too.
I’m wondering now if bears thought those humans ought to have been shot. After all, there are an awful lot of us!!!!!!!!!!!!
Perhaps hungry bears could sign up for mealtrain.com? There is a certain professional well-compensated, yet extremely busy couple who know how to be fed well by the benevolence of others. Black bear lives matter – start printing signs and painting the boulevards – DEI soldiers, this is an emergency – an indingenous population is being systemically discriminated against in their own ancestoral territory. Engage and correct this travesty post haste.
Bears are far too self-reliant and resourceful for such an idea. Only human beings are haughty enough to partake in such imbecility.
If it were “resourceful and self-reliant” it wouldn’t have needed humans to remove the bucket.