There is a bear problem of some size. About two miles up the road from us. They will probably work there way down to our area all too soon.

For some reason their numbers seem to be steadily increasing. They also seem to be losing their fear of humans if they ever had it. A daughter there has a fenced off area for the dogs.

A bear comes down daily to the back of the fence. Yet there is nothing to really eat there. It is illegal to shoot them so I suggested the son in law contact the police if the lands and forest department will not trap and remove him. They claim they only have one bear trap and are swamped.

A brother in law suspects that even the ones that are trapped are not being moved far enough away. People are getting quite concerned with their close proximity to their homes.

Across the road the land falls away . We see lots of bears way down there periodically. They just never seem to venture across the fields to our side of the road so far.

I am surprised they do not for the domestic garbage placed out for collection. I never saw one locally until about three years ago. Now I see them in numbers. Five or six or more at a time are are quite common. Personally I feel a season should be opened until the numbers are reduced.

I was surprised that large Canadian cities like Toronto are experiencing a substantial rat problem. Yet seem unable to bring it under control as well. To say I dislike rats is an understatement. They closed the farm next door years ago. The next year we had more rats around than you could shake a stick at. I set out a lot of traps and was quite busy resetting them for quite some time. Than they seemed to disappear.