The answer to the old and supposedly rhetorical question about what bears do in the woods turns out to be, “Not always.”
Following their first bear invasion that Friday, the Knowles family locked the windows and doors and left home for a dinner gathering.
They returned a few hours later to find a kitchen casement window had been torn open, its lock twisted into uselessness. Their home had been trashed all over again.
The family cleaned up their home and went to bed, hoping they'd have no move visits from bears.
But the next day was the worst. Knowles and his family returned home at 7 p.m. to find the house completely ransacked. The bears had trashed 7-year-old Takemi's bedroom, rummaging through his closet, even defecating on his bed.
Note the bed got it on the bears’ third visit.
And it was bears, plural. The photo by Jeff Goulding of the Times Herald-Record shows a cell phone image of the cage in which the Department of Environmental Conservation trapped a bear cub and the anxious and presumably angry mother bear outside. Read Jeremiah Horrigon’s story, Bears bash family’s house, in the Times Herald-Record to find out what happened to the mother and her cub. Registration not required but recommended for regular readers of this blog.
By the way, the Knowles family lives in a hamlet about an hour north of here called…Bearsville.
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