We had bears last year. One went through the neighbors kitchen window. Fish and Game came out, lectured everyone about leaving the garbage out, feeding the birds etc, then set a trap in our driveway. After three days I put some Alaska fish fertilizer as bait in the trap and the next morning he was in there banging around. They relocated him to the higher mtns. Now I put bleach in the big garbage can outside. So far no more problems.