On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 16:02:31 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 8/25/15 3:56 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 14:58:52 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 8/25/15 2:51 PM, wrote:

I wouldn't take a deer either but I have no problem with those who do.
We don't really have that many that come into neighborhoods because
there is plenty of natural habitat around here. It is pretty much the
same with the bears and the hogs. Up closer to Ft Myers and down in
East Naples that is not as true. The bears have discovered dumpsters
and the hogs have decided the roots of ornamental plants are yummy.


I haven't seen any wild hogs or bears around here, but one of the
neighbors down the street has a small pot-bellied pig. Cute little
critter, and smart, too.

From what I hear from folks up there , they are both coming.
Black bears may be one of the big successes (if you want to call it
that) in wildlife restoration. The black bears are in the NW DC
suburbs and between there and Baltimore It is just a matter of time
before they get to you if they are not there already. Usually you will
not see them until they are in your trash.
The one that was raiding the dumpster at the downtown hospital in Ft
Myers eluded everyone for close to a month. There were plenty of cell
phone videos but FWC couldn't find it. He was found eventually living
in a tree at a golf course, probably by someone looking for a lost
ball.


Hogs are on the opposite end of the environmental scale but they are
thriving too. They seem to be working their way up the coast through
Virginia and it is just a matter of time before they start walking
across the 301 bridge. With 3 litters a year, they populate a place
pretty fast and they can eat just about anything.`



We keep our trash in tight containers in the garage and I take it to the
county dumpsters twice a week. It's paper/bottle/can trash, and we rinse
the cans and bottles out. The garbage goes down the disposals. That
being said, my wife believes she saw a bear halfway up a tree trunk a
couple of years ago just past our backyard. It was not a raccoon.

Ahh, the 301 bridge...what a fripping disaster. Takes an hour to clear
the traffic and get across, whether you are going to Virginia and
stopping for the toll (now $6 for a car) or coming back to Maryland. 301
is heavily traveled, and you would think by now Maryland, Virginia, and
the feds would have put up a replacement multi-lane bridge.

The last time I was on that bridge was in 2012, on my way to my
sister's house in Ridge from our North Carolina detour.
The traffic wan't really bad at all but we got off of 301 pretty fast
on the Md side, down by Allen's Fresh and cut over