[pct-l] Why a fed bear is a dead bear

[Carl Siechert]

Don't let them get into your Snickers stash.


http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/4-bears-die-of-chocolate-overdoses-expert-proposes-ban/ar-AA8tCqh

New Hampshire's bear expert is proposing to eliminate the use of chocolate
as bait after four bears were found dead at one trapping site due to a
chocolate overdose.

The bears — two female adults and two cubs — were found dead within 50 feet
of where a hunter had put down 90 pounds of chocolate and doughnuts as bait
in September, The Concord Monitor (http://bit.ly/1BhaVHw) reported.

A necropsy and toxicology reports performed at the University of New
Hampshire confirmed they died of heart failure caused by theobromine, a
toxic ingredient in chocolate.

The best way to stop this from happening again is to remove chocolate from
the woods, Andrew Timmins, the state Fish and Game Department's bear
project leader, told a commission meeting Wednesday.