There are an inconceivable amount of bears this year. Instead of the usual once a month sighting, we are seeing them every other day or so now. Big bears. Little bears. Medium sized bears. Goldilocks would be bear shit with the quickness bears.

Odder still is that the bears have taken on a new, if you will bear with me, bearing. If they used to be at a 10 on a 1-10 scale of how afraid of people they usually are, with 10 being terrified and 1 being you get eaten, they are at a 4. Same with their fear of dogs.

The only quantifiable thing that has changed is that hogs have shown up over the last 3 years thanks to the bear hunters wanted an off season animal to chase. Could the bears learning a new food source have something to do with it? Competition for groceries maybe?

There will likely be a massive thinning of the heard this fall. It is only a matter of time before one of them paints a target on the rest of them...