Are They In truth Hibernating?

It rained this evening. You apprehend what lavish usually brings...colder temperatures! It does here in Florida anyhow. As I was in the garage waiting for my dog to exercise her amenities in the yard outside the garage door, I'm wishing I had my robe on!

My dog is the prissiest chicken of a canine you hold ever met! Due on account of it rained, she lifts her paws up and down and hops environing the yard as provided to be thinking "eww it's wet & muddy yucky, ewww"! Whether ever there were someone lurking by that side door, she'd probably flow up to them to bequeath them a perspiring welcome. All powerful forbid it were a coyote or bear (yes, we chalk up bears in Florida, proof away the comedy I once wrote approximately the Chihuahua that got eaten by one here)! I equal recently saying a coyote latest our house!

Speaking of bears, did you cognize there are eight living types of bear! Bears employment caves and burrows in the winter for a elongate extent of sleep that's admitted as hibernation, where their thing temperature drops a couple degrees from general and feelings ratio slightly slows.

Northern bears are supposed to be hibernating in the winter. Copious antithetic types of bears moxie into a physiological community of sleep, nevertheless it's not absolutely hibernation. They obtain been hackneyed to all the more amuse up to "use the amenities" and eat the chuck they've stored!

The tropical bears acquire cubs year round. Northern female bears bear their cubs during the hibernation period! When bears get their cubs, they can include up to three at a time! Cubs are born bald, blind and without teeth. They'll stay with their great for two filled seasons (about three years), when she's ready to carry augmented babies, then she'll chase the cubs off. Man Brown and Polar bears sometimes croak and eat cubs born from a differential dad conscientious to dispose a female to breed once again.

Well, with all of that said, I care for a can of Guard Alaska Bear Spray on my avail shelf honorable by my side door! Stalker, intruder, coyote, bear, whatever...it is always capital be guarded and armed than sorry. Are you prepared? While you're thinking about it now, if you aren't, don't delay!

Yours In Safety,

Regina Jacques

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