> >A redwood in your living room he he, you'd be sweeping up > >needles and shooing squirrels for months > Its not the squirrels, (lots of em running around here anyway) its > the barr's dat eb the problem ;-] Perhaps you shouldn't keep your trash can in the house Didja hear the latest about the guy who's been building the bear-proof suit ? It got beaten to a pulp by a real bear (I think) in the latest test. A bear, it seems, is a little more persistent at getting into the suit than a swung log. Logs are not known for their probelm-solving smarts http://www.flayrah.com/article.php?sid=537 His name is Troy Hurtubise, which I'm sure the bears take as a challenge to "hurt you, bitch" Any thoughts on an electronic bear repellent ? Pepper spray is said to work, I guess while the bear is rubbing its eyes, and getting even more pissed off than it was before, you take the opportunity to run like stink With 1000lbs of grizzly "bearing" down on you, the only electronics I can think of to stop it would be a boxful of tazers. You could always try and frighten it away with an MP3 player loaded with John Tesh -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu