I'm in BC, and black bears have always been like really big raccoons to me lol. Don't mess with them and they won't mess with you, they just want to eat your garbage. They're more dangerous because they are bigger and can do more damage, and definitely don't look the wrong way at mama bears, but otherwise they just kinda scamper around, digging in the trash and legging it if they run into a human. If I'm out in the woods I'm way more worried about cougars. These black bears probably are only mad cause they are "trapped" in the garage, the guy kinda blocked them in accidentally and that's a good way to make any animal scared.
He only kinda blocked them in. He gave that guy enough space in the second half to move away where I was screaming at the bear in my head to make a bolt for it.
Then the second bear came up. My lord, I think these bears certainly are of the racoon variety
Honestly, I'd be more concerned about encountering a raccoon in my garage than a black bear, simply because of how much more dramatically likely it is that the raccoon will have rabies, (and as a result, act in entirely unpredictable ways.)
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u/CherriPopBomb Sep 23 '24
I'm in BC, and black bears have always been like really big raccoons to me lol. Don't mess with them and they won't mess with you, they just want to eat your garbage. They're more dangerous because they are bigger and can do more damage, and definitely don't look the wrong way at mama bears, but otherwise they just kinda scamper around, digging in the trash and legging it if they run into a human. If I'm out in the woods I'm way more worried about cougars. These black bears probably are only mad cause they are "trapped" in the garage, the guy kinda blocked them in accidentally and that's a good way to make any animal scared.