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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mad_Jack" data-source="post: 8787741" data-attributes="member: 6750306">For most of the wildlife around here, when you encounter one the easiest thing to do is, stand still for a second to let it look at you, look back at it, then just casually go back to doing whatever you were doing. Usually, it'll just wander off. Bear sightings in CT have become more common in the past two decades. Most of them seem to be fairly acclimated to humans, and the majority of them wandered off when someone raised their voice at them. I remember being told as a kid that you never interrupt a bear when it's eating or has its cubs with it, but otherwise making loud noises from a distance tends to drive them off.  I've encountered three different black bears over the years, and none of them were particularly frightening. On the other hand, I remember being out in the woods once during the winter, and coming face to face with a <bleep>ing bull moose... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f633.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":oops:" title="Oops!    :oops:"  data-smilie="10"data-shortname=":oops:" /> I was on a trail, and it just stepped out in front of me about twenty feet away. Now that was scary - you don't really understand how big those things are until you see one in person. Especially since I wasn't expecting to see a moose in CT since they're not native to the state. (Although apparently there's been a native population established in the past twenty years or so.)</blockquote>

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