Nine bears slaughtered in Revelstoke

Why don't people like bears? These are as bad as some campers.

It's the old "my right to be an ignorant, reckless and irresponsible self-indulgent idiot supersedes everyone else's right to live in safe, reasoned and responsible community".

Unfortunately that attitude is a pervasive social disease.

Looks to me like instead of paying someone to go shoot problem bears that money for bear conservation could be raised by issuing hunting permits for the problem bears and then letting hunters take care of the problem. That way the bear meat and the pelts won't go to waste AND money is put into the budget to help communities bear proof their garbage cans and etc.

Hunting generally isn't allowed very close to town. And even when animals are hit by vehicles, the meat isn't wasted. It's often donated to first nations tribes in the area.

Or they could just be responsible humans not leave garbage and food scraps lying out im the open, so that they have fewer "problem bears" in the first place. The bears shouldn't have to pay the price of their ignorance with their lives.

So what do you think the animal control officer was doing? Hmmm?

Yeah those irresponsible homeowners with their fruit trees! Don't they know they can get imported fruit from Peru and New Zealand in their local store?

Like I tell a neighbour who bitches on Facebook daily about dogs shitting in her yard. There's these things called fences, they work both ways. The bears eat the wild berries in the gully behind my yard. Sometimes I take pictures, I don't whine to the conservation officer.

So what do you think the animal control officer was doing? Hmmm?

Not 'hunting'. Euthanizing. Tactics are different.

So what do you think the animal control officer was doing? Hmmm?

Not 'hunting'. Euthanizing. Tactics are different

Excuse me? How so?

Not 'hunting'. Euthanizing. Tactics are different

Excuse me? How so?

When you are rummaging through the forest and happen upon an animal, you don't usually consider that your shot may miss and intersect a nearby house. It's pretty rare that any municipality will allow hunting within 5km of town limits for that reason. Sometimes even bowhunting is restricted to within 2km of towns or cities.

When you are shooting a bear because it's in the back alley eating garbage, you don't have to consider bullet trajectory, because protecting people and ending the bear takes priority.

It's stalking prey and taking careful consideration with the kill shot.

It's hunting. And you folks pay someone to do it instead of letting someone who has a lifetime of experience do it and then pay for the privilege.

We get the people whining about coyotes and nine times out of ten they're people that have moved from a big city. Morons don't seem to realize coyotes and bears live around here.

PORT COQUITLAM — A 10-year old B.C. girl is in hospital after being attacked by a female black bear in Port Coquitlam, just east of Vancouver.

A spokeswoman for the B.C. Ambulance Service described the child’s injuries as critical.

The attack happened late Saturday afternoon on a trail near a river in the city’s River Springs neighbourhood.

Conservation inspector Murray Smith said the bear had been with its cub at the time.

He said the mother bear would not leave the heavily populated area and as a result had to be destroyed. It was unclear what happened to the cub.

Smith said conservation officers would try to determine whether the bears ventured into the community because they were attracted by garbage and whether they might have lost their fear of humans through previous contact with people.

Maybe you folks need to build a wall around your communities to keep the bears out.

The bears, of course, should pay for the walls.