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Big black bear in Florida. Most look like big dogs.
« on: May 28, 2013, 03:04:24 AM »
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Re: Big black bear in Florida. Most look like big dogs.
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2013, 08:26:22 AM »
 My goodness, that looks like the bear that was in "The Yearling" with Gregory Peck, Ol slew foot, ha.
Biggest black bear I ever saw was eating trash behind the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado awhile back. He was roly poly fat!
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Re: Big black bear in Florida. Most look like big dogs.
« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2013, 09:30:01 AM »
What does it say about a society, when its trash has enough calories to grow fat bears?
 
maybe some liverwurst in there ya reckon.
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Re: Big black bear in Florida. Most look like big dogs.
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2013, 09:42:08 AM »
I live in bear hunting country. The bait with barrels of surplus "food" that is cheap or free from places like frozen pizza plants, candy companies, etc. The bears are really attracted to it.
 
Say Mr. Bear, you wanna diet coke with that barrel of pizza and carmel? 
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Re: Big black bear in Florida. Most look like big dogs.
« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2013, 11:02:30 AM »
A 600# bear is a big bear anywhere. I've never seen a dog even half the heavy.  :o
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Re: Big black bear in Florida. Most look like big dogs.
« Reply #5 on: May 28, 2013, 11:39:38 AM »
The guys at work took a pic of one in the parking lot at work Friday.  It was huge.  We have way too many bears........
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Re: Big black bear in Florida. Most look like big dogs.
« Reply #6 on: June 03, 2013, 03:02:48 PM »
I just moved to FL and I can tell you the two bears I have seen were huge compared to the one I seen in NC.
One looked like big foot running across the road. I wonder what this 600lb guy is going to look like next year after having to live off berries and bugs now that he has been relocated from his garbage food source.

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PS They need to start a bear season like they do gator and draw for tags.....

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Re: Big black bear in Florida. Most look like big dogs.
« Reply #7 on: June 04, 2013, 04:08:31 AM »
Relocating Bears does not work.  They find their way back.  Alaska F&G tried that back when we had a Bunny Hugging Governor.  They moved the bears several hundred miles away.  Most found their way back to the area where they had been captured.

Three years ago I was riding my motorcycle from Ft Lauderdale to Tampa.  As I went through the orange orchard, sugar cane, area just north of Lake Okachobe a Black Bear ran out in the road in front of me.  It was close, I almost got the bear.  Would not have done me any good either.  It was not this big but it was a lot bigger than a Big Dog.
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