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Bears

Sunday night is for the cottage bears

Sunday is takeout night for the bears - that’s what DH called it after two consecutive Sunday bear break-ins at our island cottage and the neighbouring cabin. The first happened at the cabin, where our friends had left homemade chicken soup cooling on the screened back porch while they ferried guests in the boat back to the mainland. They [...]

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Good advice for avoiding bears

We haven’t seen any bears around our cottage this year, but there was much discussion about the bruins with our guests last week—mostly to assure them that they were safe (the guests, not the bears). Then yesterday, Patrick Walsh, the editor of Outdoor Canada,  forwarded me a Ministry of Natural Resources fact sheet about avoiding [...]

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First weekend at the cottage

[Updated] Last weekend was my first at our cottage this year and so I saw first-hand the consequences of low water levels and our bear break-ins, which had happened after my final visit in the fall. Off our shoreline is a bar of shoals, rocks that rise just above the surface, or a foot or [...]

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The story behind a Cottage Life illustration

We like to have fun here at Cottage Life, even when we’re discussing the serious business of keeping bears out of the cottage. You may have seen the illustration of the bear cheating an electric fence in the new (June 2010) issue of the magazine. It accompanied a story in the Puttering section about using [...]

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Bear dens under Lake of the Woods cottage

Guess who came for the winter? Turns out our bear problem is nothing compared to the conundrum facing Ron and Val Brown on Coney Island in Lake of the Woods. Their bear curled up and went to sleep under the cottage, and is now defending his/her “den” when they try to return. Here’s the story. [...]

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No bear damage at the cottage

Yesterday we heard from the couple that looks after our floating dock during winter. We had asked them if they would walk around the cottage and check for bear damage.  No sign of bears, they said, and added that there have been no reports of damage to any cottages in the area this spring, though [...]

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Bears are out and looking for food

“I’ll leave this in the car,” I said. “Oh don’t do that,” she said. “The bears…” Good grief. How could I forget? This happened just last week. Sunday night we had “torn down” the Cottage Life booth at the Spring Cottage Life Show, and Monday morning I took off for a little R&R at my [...]

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A cooler bear

Like many of you, DH and I have had bears on the brain over the winter, so we got a kick out of this little story about a bear who just wanted to cool off.

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