Mr. Adams' trick for keeping bears out of a hunting camp is to put out moth balls. Apparently the smell of moth balls is repugnant to bears, so I have followed his example and put them around the garden to keep the bears away from the ducks and so far it has seemed to work. The moth balls last longer if they are out of the weather, but even then they only last about 6 months. I had refilled the containers not too long ago, but in light of our new "problem" it occurred to me that it might be a good idea to fill them up again and add some new weather-proof stations in the wooded area, closer to where the bear seems to be. I had Mr. Adams pick up some moth balls from the local hardware store and today he helped me set them out.
First I cut the tops off of cat litter jugs that I pilfered from the recycling center, and then Mr. Adams nailed them upside down to a few trees.
I was his assistant...
Then we cut off some old socks, filled them with moth balls....
...and nailed them to the tree inside the jugs.
The last time we had a problem bear in the neighborhood Lucy went hoarse from barking so much. She barked for 36 hours straight! We put out some fresh mothballs and within an hour she stopped barking. That bear never did come back. We'll see if it works this time.
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