The Editor,
For the past few weeks, a bear has been hanging around our neighbourhood.
At first he was fine but the past few days I have noticed that the bear is very weak. He walks very slowly and struggles to climb the fence.
The bear is now getting more aggressive in going into empty garbage bins due to being hungry, I suspect. A few days ago, I had come out to the front driveway at around 9 p.m. to alert my daughter of the bear in the area when arriving home from work. As I walked on my driveway, there comes the bear behind me.
Although I stood still in front of him approximately 10 feet away, the bear started to walk slowly toward me. As I turned my back to walk away, he started accelerating toward me.
I was lucky that I was only a few feet away from the front door. While I appreciate that people need to do their best to keep their garbage away from bears, it is now becoming a concern.
Jacqueline Pickering
Port Coquitlam
