Look who's back...

Well we hadn't seen the bears for a few days and were fearing the worst. Repeat bear sightings in rural residential areas often invite trouble. Conservation officers are called and relocating the bears is not the first option. Bears have very large territories and if you move one to anothers area, chances are one will die a slow death from injuries due to fighting...anyway that's what I've been told and I'm not sure if I agree with it but anyway....last evening Griffin was barking like mad, so we went out to have a look and there were the 2 cubs scrambling up a fir tree...

After a few minutes they realaxed a bit and started to come down...

                                                              The two headed bear..

Such a treat to see these guys...I'm sure mama bear was close by but we couldn't see her..I bet she knew where we were though..

The doodle patient

Well here's my poor boy the day he got back from the vet...he looks so sad and downtrodden but I think he's a bit stoned from the Tylenol 3's  he's on...

The abcess in his throat was probably due to a broken tooth which the vet removed...

...And then opened the abcess up to clean it out and put a drain tube in....

Anyway that was about 5 days ago and this morning, as you can see, he's back to his old self and wanting to go for a swim....sorry bud, not for another week...

wishful thinking...

Had some early morning visitors again...

 

Check out the ears on that baby!! Looks like she could take off with those things!

The light was so pretty this morning out in the garden and on the barn.....

This will probably be one of the last really nice days of sun before the rains come in this week...pretty good stretch of weather...a gorgeous summer and autumn...better buckle down...grey and wet will soon arrive...good times in the studio ahead...

The visitor

Yesterday afternoon we had a visitor to the orchard. This handsome young fella decided to check out how the apple harvest was coming along and would have been quite content to hang around until Griffin chased him up a fir tree. I always feel lucky to see a bear since their habitat is quickly disapearing around here. We don't call any conservation officer or anything like that, rather let them go about their buisness and take what may fall on the ground. If they get destructive in the trees, we send Griffin out to do his job which takes care of the bear for a while. Its interesting to note that he's not much bigger than Griff when you look at him but he probably weighs 3 times more and...oh...take a close look at those claws! Not to be taken lightly... but I like to think that they feel somewhat safe in our woods.