# Take a hike you great furry rug waiting to happen! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 18, 2003, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-a-hike-you-great-furry-rug-waiting-to-happen/189333 "2003-07-18T05:21:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-a-hike-you-great-furry-rug-waiting-to-happen/189333/1 "2003-07-18T05:21:38Z")
So I’m visiting my parents. They are somewhat - rural, to put it mildly. Suffice it to say they need to have a wood stove because the power will be out for weeks at a time in the winter, and the snow is too deep to get out. It’s rural. So we all go to bed, and shortly there after we heard a comotion in the back yard. We peaked out, and low and behold - a great, honkin’ furry bear was stomping around, knocking stuff over to eat the bird seed and flowers, and generally making a mess of everything. Imagine if you will, the three of us, momma & poppa Wonderland, and myself, on the back deck, jumping up and down in our night clothes, chucking things at the bear and yelling at him to “piss off!” He finally left. We’ve chosen to leave the potted flowers and things until morning, rather than traipsing out there after a full grown bear. Fun! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-a-hike-you-great-furry-rug-waiting-to-happen/189333/2 "2003-07-18T06:02:11Z")
he was probably looking for the spare key ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-a-hike-you-great-furry-rug-waiting-to-happen/189333/3 "2003-07-18T06:35:09Z")
I once experienced a similar situation. Fortunately, the bear’s knocking things over and generally making a mess gave us enough time to get our clothes back on and for me to get off the couch and into a chair so we could pretend we were just watching a movie, and he was drunk enough not to remember it the next day. Oh, wait, you mean a four legged bear. Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-a-hike-you-great-furry-rug-waiting-to-happen/189333/4 "2003-07-18T06:43:16Z")
Firecrackers are good. Then again, so’s a 12 guage pump shotgun. ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2003, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-a-hike-you-great-furry-rug-waiting-to-happen/189333/5 "2003-07-19T04:19:39Z")
Ah, no - bears are beautiful. We’re encroaching upon their territory, and attempting to tame them (news flash: they are wild animals). Take that back, **Zenster.** ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2003, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-a-hike-you-great-furry-rug-waiting-to-happen/189333/6 "2003-07-19T04:31:09Z")
Stink bombs are good. So’s skunk juice. Even a bear knows better than to screw around with a skunk. ---
**Author:** ![Shana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@Shana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shana)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2003, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-a-hike-you-great-furry-rug-waiting-to-happen/189333/7 "2003-07-19T04:56:08Z")
Don’t get the birdseed mix that has peanuts in it! They seem to have a thing for peanuts. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2003, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-a-hike-you-great-furry-rug-waiting-to-happen/189333/8 "2003-07-19T14:12:45Z")
Saw the thread title, and wondered how the heck you make a rug out of a bunny. ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2003, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-a-hike-you-great-furry-rug-waiting-to-happen/189333/9 "2003-07-19T19:03:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Blonde \* > \*\*Ah, no - bears are beautiful. We’re encroaching upon their territory, and attempting to tame them (news flash: they are wild animals). > Take that back, **Zenster.** \*\* Go get him, sister! And, thank you for the compliment. I’m fairly tame, though, most of the time. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Muffin \* > \*\*Saw the thread title, and wondered how the heck you make a rug out of a bunny. \*\* Well, first you feed him some of the magic mushroom, until he’s the size you want…