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Message: [QUOTE="JohnFSilver, post: 4332777, member: 1618"] I have a bear that torments me. I left my garbage out, and for the last year he/she comes back once a week. It’s same bear because the bear eats in the same place. I finally put a lock on it, it the bear will knock it down. I did a lot of research on it. Bears with 4 bear cubs is unusual in the wild. What it means is that the areas the bears are in is a robust environment for breeding and living. Nature kind of controls the population. Why so many bears now? Bears were native, of course, until Europeans started to farm and cut down trees in the 19th century. Bears live in woods and were driven to the berkshires. Over the last 50-70 years as farms went away and CT was re forested the bears moved back in. Now? These bears are native to the Farmington Valley. I think there is something like 400 bears here and the population exploding . Sad thing is the bears are very docile, but they are dangerous due to size and strength. If a bear doesn’t run away from a human, or scared of human interaction, it has to be euthanized. Too dangerous to remain alive. It isn’t that they are aggressive, they usually aren’t. But they are familiar with humans. They werent meant to live alonsgside humans. BTW. Out your grill inside your shed or garage when not in use? . [/QUOTE]