Not long ago there was the Tide pod challenge with supposedly sapient members of the human race eating pre-measured laundry detergent capsules and making videos to prove they were doing it for consumption of others who were just as defective.

Apparently there was someone out there eating the Lemon Joy.

When you camp in bear country you store food away from the camp in a tree somewhere. In Alaska most homesteads have a storeroom that looks similar to a very heavy duty dog house or small log cabin up on a pole. They keep the food away from the people.

We spend too much time and money to protect people who should be removed from the gene pool. Those labels telling people not to use electrical appliances in the bath or shower are a sure sign that a cull is necessary. 👿

No, you’re right, the rangers didn’t have a choice. It’s silly people trying to anthropomorphize the bears. “Aren’t they so cute!” Like they’re talking about babies or something, these are not teddy bears, people. It’s much more dangerous for the bears to come into contact with people because the bears are almost always going to end up dead as a result of the experience while the humans will only occasionally be dead. Based on that last remark, I expect I gave up which way I lean as to the better outcome.

Instead of bears we get morons feeding alligators. You can’t convince people that it is a bad idea to associate people and food in the mind of a large carnivore. Most wild animals avoid humans, which is much safer for both the animals and humans. All too much of what humans eat is bad for animals. The rangers didn’t have a choice: that bear would have looked at humans as a food source. That’s the sort of thing that makes humans so dangerous.

Recently in our area, the rangers had to euthanize a juvenile black bear that was frequenting the Meadows of Dan overlook. Apparently the bear got close to some tourists there and they decided to feed it, and naturally the jerks posted it on Facebook. What else does one do when one feeds a wild bear? The local rangers got wind of it, and did the dirty deed. The posters were SHOCKED, shocked that they would do such a cruel thing, well DUH! I thought it was common knowledge that feeding wild animals put them in danger of being killed. My opinion? They should have euthanized the people who fed him and increased the per capita IQ.

You learn to avoid moose, and you definitely don’t honk at them in your vehicle. Moose are the reason you always go armed into the bush. Bears and wolves can be scared off, but moose are too crazy.

“moose are psycho killers…”

Lol. I did happen to notice that no one was in sight on the video. So now I know why, Alaskans know to clear out when the moose arrives!

When the winds kick up, those peaks and the Steese Highway that runs between them are survival situations. Mile 101 is the marker on the Steese Highway, 101 miles from Fairbanks.

Moose will use the trails made for sled races, which causes collisions between the moose and the teams. That moose may have looked ‘cute’, but all moose are psycho killers, I’m not joking. Moose are way more dangerous than brown bears or wolves.