[mreid]

The problem with bears is that if you continue to feed them as you are doing now, they get more and more comfortable with you and your home. This goes no where good. Next thing, he’s on your patio lapping up the greasy goodness from your grill grease can. Next he’s breaking into your garage for some tasty morsel in the trash can you thought was safely stored in your locked garage. Then you wake up in the middle of the night to find he broke into your home and is after the contents of your refrigerator.

Bears have unending hunger and a nose like a bloodhound. You live in bear country, you have to bear proof your home and create an undesirable situation for the bear so he goes somewhere else. That means no bird feeders (my condolences to your wife), grill cleaned and stored after every use, all trash locked up securely or taken to the dump regularly. No good ever comes from creating a home attractive to bears.