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Patti · 06-28-2008, 01:00 PM

Hi to Jesse Joe and Nightingale,

My dog has rolled on a few dead fish when we lived by a river. She has rolled in 'bear stink' a few times too. We have black bears around here. Once I saw my dog barking at one, but it stayed pretty mellow about it. I was trying to call the dog off, but she seemed to think it was her job to bark at it. She finally listened to me and I got her into the house. I'm glad the bear didn't get mad. I usually don't feel afraid of bears, and I don't think running away from them is what 'they' advise, but I don't really want to get too close. Once when one dragged a bag of garbage out of the garbage can and into the woods, I was a little afraid when I was cleaning up the mess because I thought it might be watching and wouldn't want me taking it's food away.

We had a quite a bit of rain again last night. The garden had been covered with moss from all the rain, but I got most of it hoed yesterday before it rained. We're getting so many mosquitos this year. Last year there were hardly any.

06-28-2008, 01:00 PM	#23
Patti Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 1,028	Re: Midwest flooding Hi to Jesse Joe and Nightingale, My dog has rolled on a few dead fish when we lived by a river. She has rolled in 'bear stink' a few times too. We have black bears around here. Once I saw my dog barking at one, but it stayed pretty mellow about it. I was trying to call the dog off, but she seemed to think it was her job to bark at it. She finally listened to me and I got her into the house. I'm glad the bear didn't get mad. I usually don't feel afraid of bears, and I don't think running away from them is what 'they' advise, but I don't really want to get too close. Once when one dragged a bag of garbage out of the garbage can and into the woods, I was a little afraid when I was cleaning up the mess because I thought it might be watching and wouldn't want me taking it's food away. We had a quite a bit of rain again last night. The garden had been covered with moss from all the rain, but I got most of it hoed yesterday before it rained. We're getting so many mosquitos this year. Last year there were hardly any.