It rained tonight. You know what the rain usually brings...cooler weather! It does here in Florida anyhow. As I'm in the garage waiting for my dog to use the amenities in the yard out the garage door, I was wishing I had my robe on!
My dog has to be the biggest prissy chicken canine you have ever met! Just because it rained, she lifts her paws up and down and jumps around the yard as if to be thinking "eww it's wet & muddy yucky, ewwww"! If ever there were someone lurking by the side door, she'd probably run up to them to say hello. God forbid it were a coyote or bear (yes, we do have bears in FL, check out the article I once wrote about the Chihuahua that was eaten by one here)! I recently saw a coyote right behind our house!
Speaking of bears, did you know that there are eight different types of bears! They use caves and burrows during the winter for a long period of sleep known as hibernation, where body temperature drops a couple degrees from normal and heart rate slightly slows.
Northern bears are supposed to hibernate in the winter. Many different kinds of bears fall into a physiological state of sleep, but it's not truly hibernation. They've been known to still wake up to "use the amenities" and eat food they have stored!
The tropical species have cubs year round. Northern female bears have their cubs during the winter hibernation! When bears have their cubs, they can have up to three of them at once! Cubs are born blind, bald and without any teeth. They'll stay with their mother for two full seasons (approximately three years), when she's ready to have more babies, then she'll chase the cubs off. It has been known that male brown and polar bears sometimes will kill and eat babies born from another dad just to get a female to breed once again.
Well, with all that said, I keep a bottle of Guard Alaska Bear Spray on my supply shelf right next to my side door! Stalker, intruder, coyote, bear, whatever...it's best be safe and armed than sorry. Are you prepared? While you are thinking about it now, if you aren't prepared, don't hesitate!
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