we have a bear around here. My son in law (lives next door with 13 acres) put the baby cam up and filmed him raiding the trash can and stealing the pizza box. So he moved the trash indoors to the basement until he and my hubby can build a better can. Then, a week later, I look out the back window, and a bear runs out of the woods to chase my donkey around the field, I yell, hubby fires a shot and scares the bear back to the woods (we own 40 acres). Poor donkey won't come out of his safety pen for 2 weeks. The the Appalachian trail closes down near us due to bear activity and opens after they place bear proof trash cans out for $10,000. We live near Mcaffee's Knob in Catawba Blue Ridge Mountians . We have 5 mile of national forest behind our house. If its alive, it lives there. Welcome to the wilderness. Its no wonder I quilt.....