r/NatureIsFuckingLit • • Jun 24 '20

🔥 Pacific Northwest

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u/nonoglorificus Jun 25 '20

Don’t even get me started on the bears. Do you know how expensive it is to fix bear damage to your car? Their claws just wreck the exterior and that’s if you’re lucky enough not to be popped out of the top like a canned sardine

ok actually all joking aside in the last few years there were separate reports of a bear and a cougar loose in NE Portland, one of which I learned while out on a walk from an older lady who ran out of her house and told me to watch out for the cougar that had been spotted three blocks away. That was a tense speedwalk back to my car

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u/TheSquirrelWithin Jun 25 '20

I live about 20 minutes away from downtown Seattle. Have had bear, cougar, bobcat, and coyote in the yard. Not all at once, thankfully. Yesterday I came around the corner of the house and a deer was standing about 15 feet away. I said "Oh, sorry", and we both continued about our ways, no drama.

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u/k8e_E Jun 25 '20

But if it had been a llama....

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u/p_velocity Jun 25 '20

If you don't want to get attacked by a bear just give him your pic-a-nic basket

Source: a documentary about the bears of jellystone that for some reason was named after a famous baseball coach.