Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy Date: 11 Nov 2024 00:00:42 GMT Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <7c5edef0-d4ec-a8fc-3f70-8ffa2a2b1df0@example.net> <2132040480.752628420.877076.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <10a1e4fa-c029-1ce7-173f-da67ddf34c16@example.net> <8389f094-f7c0-44ef-e36e-c79cd876a752@example.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net uk1hCX53j28wUGLezBcxawt+4Y7nRb3bszsrrNCfO+H/yEAW9W Cancel-Lock: sha1:MutHn3P6rYz2WUJhkdj4HNl7qw4= sha256:ipPYLT2taxmiPKHdB1fmdBPC7yhFkFOs2jR+xabIwE8= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Bytes: 3083 On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 22:17:58 +0100, D wrote: > Wow! The only thing I remember having heard or read is, if meet bear, > then try to appear huge and make some noise. Maybe it works on cats as > well? > > I guess if you turn and run that might activate the hunting instinct in > cats? It definitely works on cats. When one approached to about 50' I waved my trekking poles and yelled. He wasn't impressed but didn't attack either. Finally he retreated to a little stand of trees. Unfortunately I had to pass the area to get down the trail. I gave it a wide berth and he crouched down with waving tail like an upset house cat. I checked my back trail frequently but he'd had enough of me. I was wondering to my self why my firearms were at home leaving me with the poles and a KA-BAR Becker Campanion. They're great for grooming a trail but not what you'd want to bring to a cat fight. https://www.nps.gov/subjects/bears/safety.htm The recommendation is to fight off black bears and play dead for grizzlies. I don't think I could do the play dead act. Any black bears I've encountered either ignored me or ran off. At one time I did have to pass between a mother and her cubs that were up a tree. I talked to her, "Cubs? What cubs? I haven't seen any cubs." I would not have done so but the trail was such neither the bears or I could detour.