Agree 100% buddy got a bear and he makes his own sausage.. he mixed it with pork, venison and spices ... it was great!
I've had bear twice, one was eating honey, very yummy! The other one was "wild", no so yummy. I've heard that their diet makes a big difference.
I also wonder about bear shot after being run by dogs for a while. We were always very careful when killing beef & hogs to keep them calm not to have their adreneline "up"
It has always been that way in this state. Nope, no poisonous snakes, even if they are staring you in your face. My parents told me of seeing a mountain lion up in the County, but that was also discredited. You would think you are reporting a Sasquatch sighting. I will tell you all that I have come to live at peace with the snakes around here, but I still don't like them one little bit.
We were in a mobile home for a couple years with nomadic mice I could swear they moved from trailer to trailer around the block after traps and poison showed up. We learned to shake our shoes and where to buy cheap shoes to replace the ones we shook stuff out Also, the rental we had before that was a garage with asphalt tile in the foothills, I have arachnaphobia stories for another time
I can tolerate snakes much better than spiders, I really do not like spiders. If I see a harmless snake outside I will let him be, I see a spider outside or anywhere he's going to die
Spiders do not bother me. I used to catch them when I was a kid and throw them at my brothers. Kid stuff. Of course I do not like them in my house.
I hate snakes. I know they serve a purpose, but I still hate them. We are lucky up here in Northern Indiana, we don't get too many poisonous ones here. There is a Masauga rattler that is up this way, but I have never seen one. My 2 Jack Russells hate snakes more than I do. They kill everyone that is silly enough to get into their yard! I have no problems if the snake is leaving when I see it, but if it puffs up, I chop its head off with a shovel, poisonous or not!
Dear Husband is similar, though he has used a bow and arrow once and later a shovel on rattlers. I'd like to see the similar looking but non-poisonous snakes live, but I'd rather be safe than sorry. I also assume it's hard to tell one from the other when in danger. When we were young I was fixing my hair before work in the bathroom with the radio on, curling iron in my hair infront of the mirror and told my dog to stop barking. She would not stop barking then I heard something like a loud jigsaw in the living room I still remember the echo of that rattler in the house til this day. That would be the bow and arrow rattler, he did not want to shoot a gun in the rental.....
For your sanity, please do not buy a post and beam house with high ceilings. that's what I have and spiders just come with the territory. my wife doesn't like snakes or spiders. her exact response is running. twice a year I bomb the house. Wife and daughter go on their weekend. I bomb house and pets and i sleep in camper ..
I was told there aren't any mountain lion here either - just the random male looking for territory from the viable population left in FL. ~8years ago I sent some pictures of adult & cub tracks to the DNCR. They tried to tell me they were dog tracks - with no claws. Guy down the road from me caught one on his trail camera, and the DNCR finally confirmed it. With ~400,000 acres of forest plenty of room for them to stay hidden
We only have garder snakes around here, however with this weather they are probably still froze, but a few hours down the 401 to southern Ontario there is the massasauga rattler. It's supposed to be endangered but rather timid and shy (just don't step on one or play with it). Up here we have the enviable pleasure of skeeters, black flies and deer flies. Oh and as far as mountain lions are concerned, that is a raging argument that has been going on for years. Going to need one to bite Trudeau on the @$$ before they admit to them being here.
Been there done that, the wife tried so hard to make it tasty. But then you think about the things I've seen them eat.
When I find snakes at work or friends places I bring them home for mice patrol. I am careful not to run them over mowing with tractor. We do have Timber rattlers in New England but they are very rare, and not widespread. Probably a better chance of seeing a UFO.
I saw a story recently where they are planning on relocating some to an island wildlife sanctuary somewhere in Mass. They are very common here and I've seen 2 in my 10+yrs down here, 1 eastern diamond back at the house 2 at work, 4-5 copperheads, and dozens more cottonmouths. The overwhelming type of snakes I encounter are King Snakes - they eat all other snakes poisonous & non, then grey rat snakes - very adept climbers. The little ring-neck snakes are pretty common in the garden beds, and every time I cut the grass little worm snakes flee to the edge of the woods
Old joke but…… Take your bear roast out of the marinade and put it on a wood plank in the oven for 1.5 hours. Then remove if from the oven and take it off the plank. Throw the bear out and eat the plank.
I never saw any rattlers when I lived in Maine, but I'm sure there are a few, on certain places. Our DNR said there were no cougars fit the longest time. Then they found one living in an old barn, then several were spotted on trail cams. I've been forced into the house by a cougar a number of years ago at the cottage up in the northwoods of Wisconsin. Also, I don't think our state has acknowledged copperheads being here, but one was caught on fim in a woods on a show called "Outdoor Wisconsin" on a nature hike. The prevalence of cell phones now allows people to self document these cases, so that nobody can refute it when officials don't do their jobs.
fuelrod you can have the plank I'll eat the bear. basod at least the state admitted that, but probably came up with a "just passing through " Horkn they are real but people want to condemn them from the start. Spent the better part of my life in the woods, seen a lot of animals that I wasn't sure of. Once saw a big black thing in southern aroostook county while hunting, wasn't quite sure what it was so I approached it. It ran. Later in the day I talked with 2 different people who both said it was a black cat, a BIG black cat. Still don't know today what it was. Back in the mid 90s a guy up north shot a huge coyote and called the wardens. A year later he was arrested for killing a wolf. If these guys or the biologists don't know what it is or admits to anything they don't want you to know, who are we to argue the fact of what it is or isn't?
