There have been several visiting bears here over the 3-plus years we’ve lived in the Kootenays: to be honest, I kind of like having them around. We are in an acreage subdivision on the side of a small mountain with ‘wild’ forest all around, so pretty much right in the middle of the black bear’s turf.

So far the bears only show up for brief walk-throughs. Once or twice a single youngster stopped by to eat berries from a vine on our property. Another time on a hot day a ‘family’ of four splashed around in a kiddie swimming pool that we had out in the yard for our dog. They haven’t been destructive: just on their way through.

That one in the picture on the original post was a youngster that was part of the kiddie pool visiting family from a year ago. Cute thing, really: probably 50 kilos or so, or about half the size of his ‘mom’ at the time.