Bears are a problem here, too. I live within the city limits and am regularly visited by bears. I had a torn rotator cuff - and still have problems with the shoulder, from an encounter with at bear at 7:15 in the evening. No, it didn't touch me. One of my dogs, a recent rescue, tried to attack the bear over and over. I held her, but it tore my shoulder up. The bear came toward us for a while, but finally turned and went into the woods. We were three streets in from the edge of the woods. The scary thing is that children are out playing at that time. They've been in at noon, too. Not vegetarian?? I have a huge hole in my hosta garden right now and the large hosta is gone. No squirrel did that. The black cherry tree in my side yard is a real draw in the late summer. You know when they are around. The smell is very rank, but I'm not volunteering to give one a bath in my dog's yummy almond shampoo.