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09/28/11, 09:55 AM
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Bear odor?
I walk two miles in the Ozarks most mornings. This morning, at none place on my route, there was a pungent, musky, slightly urine smell. Is that bear?
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09/28/11, 10:19 AM
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Sounds like it....
..... or a buck in rut (they smell a lot like a buck goat when in rut).
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09/28/11, 10:23 AM
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Can't say for sure, but the description WOULD fit a fox, and the hours they keep would mean a fox could have been through just minutes before.
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09/28/11, 11:13 AM
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Foxes smell like a skunk. Not loud and for days like a real skunk, but just a whiff of skunk.
Never smelled a bear (thankfully!)
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09/28/11, 12:16 PM
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A deer in rut also has a noticeable musky odor, and they make "scrapes" beneath overhanging tree limbs to deposit the scent, although it seems a little early in the season for that
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09/28/11, 01:30 PM
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Do not buy into the wonderful line my husband had me believing. "Your safe out here--you'd smell the bear before you are close enough that you are in harms way". A few years ago just out side of my back door right by by out door chest freeze (extra storage and counter top freeeze did not work--A country thing) I hear a noise --did not small anything. Moose were dropping babies and can attack and kill people --happens up here I need more space for storeing cooled yet still cooling cans of cherries. I did get my husband up to go with me to protect me from the moose --it end up with me standing still well less than 15 feet from the bear in the brush that I never saw or SMELLED only knew it was there when it grunted like a pig and charged me. Dh did shoot.
So since then I learned that the smell it deal was BS to "make" me feel safe. Now, during active periods for the bears I stick close--open area only --done lots of clearing. My son packs a gun when we get wood or are clearing new areas. Bears do not have to stink to be near. I am not lieing or streacting the truth becasue I could have been harmed due to a myth.
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09/28/11, 06:04 PM
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The description sounds like fox to me.
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09/29/11, 07:05 AM
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Wild boar hog?
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09/29/11, 08:15 AM
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If you figure out what it is/was, please let us know, and whatever you do, STAY SAFE!
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09/29/11, 08:45 AM
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Wet dog...
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09/29/11, 09:07 AM
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Surprised no one mentioned bobcat, that's the first thing came to my mind.
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09/29/11, 09:46 AM
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Ok been around most critters including Bear.Seriously thinking Red Cedar or Acorns.Smelled Acorns strong yesterday.
Elk are the only critter I've had strong odor from,not saying that you won't get odors from other animals but not as strong.Well I take that back the other day I was Hog hunting came to a wallow said out load this even smells like Hog,just then seen one heading for the brush.
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09/29/11, 12:40 PM
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Might be Ol Slewfoot...
...running 90 miles an hour, taking 30 foot a jump, ain't never been caught, ain't never been treed, some folks say he looks a lot like me...
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09/29/11, 12:59 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by texican
Might be Ol Slewfoot...
...running 90 miles an hour, taking 30 foot a jump, ain't never been caught, ain't never been treed, some folks say he looks a lot like me...
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Well now, that IS scary!
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09/29/11, 01:17 PM
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OK Big Rock Pile ...
Fess up.
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09/29/11, 11:25 PM
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Sounds like a fox to me too. I've read that bears have a milky odor to them.
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09/30/11, 06:42 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by KimM
Sounds like a fox to me too. I've read that bears have a milky odor to them.
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"Milky"? I haven't smelled the bear where you live... but the bears around here's smell has nothin to do with "Milky".
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09/30/11, 07:23 AM
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Bears don't smell like a urine odor. I would assume anything feline like a fox or perhaps even a deer in rut.
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09/30/11, 08:41 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mekasmom
Bears don't smell like a urine odor. I would assume anything feline like a fox or perhaps even a deer in rut.
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Fox and Deer do have strong odors but you really have to have a Good Smeller I have to be handling them to really smell them,Fox I can't eat anything for days after handling them without it tasting like Fox.
I'm still thinking Red Cedar or Acorns.You get in an area with many Cedars it don't have the Cedar smell more rotting urin smell.I say Acorns because they are coming off heavy and I've been noticing their smell.
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