Babs Woods wrote: > ... A few years ago we stopped stocking our birdfeeders because the town next > door was getting > bears in peoples' back yards feeding on their birdseed. Anyone got any > "Bear Away" they can spare, in case we need it here? ... What would work? > Habaneros injected with wasabiko and strung up like holiday lights in the > woods around my house? > > -babs Gotta' be careful with those damn bears. Just ask Doug... I'd bet he knows a bit there. They say that the chile-based bear sprays work when sprayed into / onto the sensitive bits (again, Rael, stop it.... shame, shame); but if applied to a non-bear surface, they actually attract them. I recall some footage from the Travel channel, or something like that, that showed them rolling around in the stuff like a dog on dead fish... I think the analogy they made was to cats and catnip. Damn bears.... -- Erich C-H # 2099 Silver Glen American Shorthairs www.worzellaphoto.com/pets/index.htm