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Old 10-12-2009, 11:14 AM
 
Location: NC, USA
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Yeah, yeah, I know there have been pics posted on here showing bear scat, and, perhaps I haven't gone far enough back to find them, but, would someone be so kind as to show a photo of bear scat? I found some fresh scat in my garden, tain't Deer, Dog, Cat, Raccoon, Opossum, Squirrel or Rabbit and if this came from a bird, it would be big enough to carry off my truck! I live back in the woods (well, for the lower 48, I'm positively rustic, can't see the road, or even the lights of my closest neighbor) The NW corner of my property is close to a marsh that borders a lake, lot of heavily tree'd swampy ground w/hills. On several occassions, well, three actually,... I have had neighbors drive down to my house and tell me they have seen a bear crossing into my woods. I have never seen this bear, not seen tracks of this bear, and the dogs have not gotten scent of him/her/it, to the best of my knowledge, even on their forays they have not returned home all clawed up and no bear has followed them home. Yeah, tis one of my little peculiarities, wanting to know with which types of critters I am sharing land. Soooooo, if someone would be so kind as to humor me and re-post a photo of Bear Scat. It would probably be Ursus Americanus, no Ursus Horribilus, or Ursus Arctos, in this neck of the woods, Thanks!
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Old 10-12-2009, 11:23 AM
 
Location: Wasilla, Alaska
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If you didn't see or hear the bear, the it was probably Ninja Bears!

http://www.iheartcleveland.com/ihc/blog/uploaded_images/bear-754443.jpg (broken link)

Did you try a Google Image search?
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Old 10-12-2009, 01:06 PM
 
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Here you go.

The deposit...loaded with berries from Katmai.

http://blackzzz.smugmug.com/photos/678576873_9ER2K-L.jpg (broken link)


And the depositor...

http://blackzzz.smugmug.com/photos/678576819_x6oYi-XL.jpg (broken link)
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Old 10-12-2009, 01:11 PM
 
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http://www.bear-tracker.com/blackbearscat.html
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Old 10-12-2009, 01:15 PM
 
Location: NC, USA
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Oh wow..... that certainly does look exactly like what I found in my garden, thanks Blackzzz01, looks like I'll keep the 7mm Mag loaded for a while.
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Old 10-12-2009, 02:09 PM
 
Location: on top of a mountain
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Oh wow..... that certainly does look exactly like what I found in my garden, thanks Blackzzz01, looks like I'll keep the 7mm Mag loaded for a while.
ooohhh bear meat in the freezer!!! if butchered right and cooked right it is very very tasty....I personally love bear burgers!!
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Old 10-12-2009, 05:21 PM
 
Location: Bliss Township, Michigan
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Wow, more great shots!
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Old 10-12-2009, 07:24 PM
 
Location: AK
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my wife took this one on the trail west from town. the bear had clearly been eating human garbage, and it looks like it got into the garbage at the clinic (hence the rubber glove), because this doesn't look like most of the healthy bear poop that we find, yet it is much too large to be anything else that lives around here (it really is a huge pile, you'd have to see it in person).


zoomed out:


as you can see, the pile is larger than the head of a fully grown labrador retriever.
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Old 10-12-2009, 08:11 PM
 
Location: Bethel, Alaska
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Can't believe this is full of crap!
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Old 10-12-2009, 08:11 PM
 
Location: Too far from Alaska
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Stop it with these pictures, will you!
A while ago I froze in my steps at the cottage in sc Wisconsin because I saw something on the ground that looked just like the pics of bear pile you guys post. And there is a mullberry tree next to it that racoons raide nightly- roof top is full of their poop.
So I see this huge pile on the ground and immidiately think, geez, we have a bear here...
It wasn't untill my neighbour kicked it and said: hey, this is just a cottontail root ball here from last year's flood...
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