How To Bear Proof Your Home

Keeping Bears Out! 

Many bears that enter homes do so through an unlocked or open window or door.

  • Close and lock all bear-accessible windows and doors when you leave the house, and at night before you go to bed.
  • Bears are great climbers - remove any tree limbs that might provide access to upper level decks and windows
  • Replace exterior lever-style door handles with good quality round door knobs that bears can't pull or push open.
  • Put on talk radio (not music) when you leave home; the human voice startles most bears.

Keeping Bears Out

Many bears that enter homes do so through an unlocked or open window or door.

  • Close and lock all bear-accessible windows and doors when you leave the house, and at night before you go to bed.
  • Bears are great climbers ? remove any tree limbs that might provide access to upper level decks and windows
  • Replace exterior lever-style door handles with good quality round door knobs that bears can?t pull or push open.
  • Put on talk radio (not music) when you leave home; the human voice startles most bears.

Dont Attract Bears

Bears follow their super-sensitive noses to anything that smells like food and trash, and can follow scents from up to five miles away.

  • Don't leave trash out overnight unless it's in a bear-proof enclosure or container. Obey all local regulations
  • Don't store food of any kind in an unlocked garage, flimsy shed or on or under your deck.
  • Don't leave anything with an odor outside, near open windows or in your vehicle, even if you're home. That includes scented candles, air fresheners, soaps and lotions.

  • Put on talk radio (not music) when you leave home; the human voice startles most bears.

Teach Bears They Arent Welcome

Many bears that enter homes do so through an unlocked or open window or door.

  • If a bear comes into your yard or close to your home, do yourself and the bear a big favor, and scare it away. A confident attitude plus loud noises like a firm yell, clapping your hands, banging on pots and pans or blowing an air horn sends most bears running
  • If a bear enters your home, open doors and windows and make sure it can leave the same way it got in. Don't approach the bear or block escape routes.
  • Never approach a bear. If a bear won't leave, call your local animal control office. If a bear presents an immediate threat to human safety, call 911

  • Put on talk radio (not music) when you leave home; the human voice startles most bears.

Original Source: https://cpw.state.co.us/

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