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Hi, this is Hope.

This is Corrine.

Hi, this is Katie from Washington, D.C. and you're a left to know me.

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Doug, I have come to the decision a conclusion that I am officially out on black bears and wildlife in general.

You're just over them and don't you're just like done with it?

Yeah, I'm completely done with them.

So we have, as I've mentioned on this podcast, we see them fairly often in the house where we live in now,

because it's sort of in the woods up on a big hill, I don't know if it's a mountain,

but up in the mountains. And we started seeing them all the time.

And then I went away last week

and my wife and kids had,

what I would say is a bare encounter

that was scary because they were walking our dog back up the hill and the path was blocked by a giant bear and the bear wouldn't move and they tried to step into a neighbor's house which required taking a few steps toward the bear and then the bear stepped towards them when they did that.

So they had to go then down the hill and to another neighbor's house which which was, you know, fine,

except scary to me that the two kids were there with her

and our dog, which is, you know, just a wild card in the situation.

So all that happened, which, you know, I was like, okay, no more walking the kids down the hill.

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