Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 07, 2015

God, I love Wiley bears!They’re the wiliest.

Wiley bears!!! Hooray! Munchies!

Oh boy! Three five-point, plaid-coated suburbanites!

Since the humans have rifles, some bears may die.

Are there bears in the Blue Hills Reservation?

“If you go down to the woods todayYou’re sure of a big surprise…”

Aren’t the bears supposed to be hibernating?

Yes!

It’s called estivating. Not sure on the spelling.

Is this a grizzly scene or what !?.I can’t help but see a reversal of the scene in Jeremiah Johnson, when Jeremiah first meets Bearclaw…This time It is the bear saying to its companion, “Skin that one, Pilgrim, and I’ll bring you another!”

And next time the Bears will have guns too…..that should make it a little more “sporting”….

Bag ’em & tag ’em Wiley bears !

Besides, according to the strip on 11/29, they do the mamba.

Could we use Wiley’s bears to replace primaries?I know one herd that really needs thinning.

A stilted situation.

They are definitely smarter than the average bear.

Wiley Bears are devilishly clever.

I’m rooting for the bears.

Mmmmm….bear meat. Delicious.

I can barely bear to watch ….. kookoo kachoo…. or that a walrus?

I have some hunting friends that would find this hilarious.

Please, Wiley, offer at least one small Wileybear to sit beside our teddy bears…

:D That’s about right. Very few hunters these days know how to actually track, or hunt for that matter, so would be easily fooled by Wiley Bears. BTW, doesn’t mean they can’t kill something. Actually the way most do it these days it takes no skill beyond aiming rifle or shotgun and pretty much guarantees a kill. Most hunters and guides (especially) use bait stations to train the animals to come to a certain area through most of the year. They only remove them during hunting season, as it’s not legal to bait during hunting season, however by then the animals behavior is set and will come to them. After all, real hunting is hard…..

Dour Scotsman and pointspread…Are you guys working as a team? Vaudeville’s not dead, eh?….

Deep moose tracks. My grandpa was a hunting guide in northern B.C back in the day. People came from all over to hunt with him. Then he moved to Calgary and helped young people who lived on the streets get their lives back. They started a Church and made him Pastor according to my dad.

aestevastion (estevation) is practiced by many desert species. Bears do hibernate, lowering heart rate, and functions, coming out in spring with a lot less weight, and their young. Hmmm, talking to a lot of human moms, I’d bet they’d appreciate being able to sleep through their pregnancies!!

This should be for more entertaining!

I haven’t seen Pierre of the North for a while. Did he become French food for the Wiley bears or did he finally get to Tahiti?

Actually, it is more likely the hunters will shoot each other.

A Firm Supporter of the Right to Arm Bears, I take it?.

The Hunting Song – Tom Lehrer

Almost every day during the hunting season you see at least one item in the newspapers about somebody who has shot somebody else, under the impression that he was a deer with a red hat..Or, Perhaps, A large flesh-colored squirrel. At any rate, it seems to me that this marks an encouraging new trend in the field of blood sports, and deserves a new type of hunting song which I present herewith.. .I always will rememberTwas a year ago NovemberI went out to hunt some deerOn a morning bright and clearI went and shot the maximumThe game laws would allowTwo game wardens, seven hunters and a cow.I was in no mood to trifleI took down my trusty rifleAnd went out to stalk my preyWhat a haul I made that dayI tied them to my fenderAnd I drove them home somehowTwo game wardens, seven hunters and a cow.The law was very firm itTook away my permitThe worst punishment I ever endured.

It turned out there was a reasonCows were out of seasonAnd one of the hunters wasn’t insured.People ask me how I do itAnd I say there’s nothing to itYou just stand there looking cuteAnd when something moves you shoot (BANG!).And there’s ten stuffed heads in my trophy room right nowTwo game wardens, seven hunters and a cow.And there’s ten stuffed heads in my trophy room right nowTwo game wardens, seven huntersAnd a pure-bred Guernsey cow!

Bears..“Anticipation”

Those aspens aren’t doing much for the bear’s cover, but what the heck.

Are these bears crazy? There are only five of them against three Apex Predators, the most dangerous species on this planet, armed with repeating weapons. The odds are against the bears… Just ask the grizzlies, Kodiak, and the polar bears… all subspecies that have been hunted until their populations were decimated to the point of endangerment by these very same monsters… If the fur bearers had a thought about what they are doing they’d leave in a hurry for their winter dens and hope the humans won’t find them.-AND…If the bears do luck out, the retaliation will be swift and sure, by professional well armed hunters; ending in euthanasia for the bears. In the end the bears won’t win… they don’t have a chance.

Apex is the highest or best… The human species has proven to be the top of the food chain in our environment; i.e. the planet Earth. We eat more bears than bears eat us… individual ‘garden variety’ human hunters are still generally more dangerous than any other ‘predator’ animal species on this planet… We are even dangerous to other humans and have been known to even eat other humans under the right circumstances. So Yeah. The bears, as a species, are more in danger from humans than humans, as a species are in danger from the bears… hence Apex Predator.