{"id":121335,"date":"2017-10-04T05:31:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T09:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=121335"},"modified":"2017-10-04T05:31:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T09:31:21","slug":"saskatchewan-farmer-kills-two-bears-after-catching-one-breaking-into-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/04\/saskatchewan-farmer-kills-two-bears-after-catching-one-breaking-into-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Saskatchewan farmer kills two bears after catching one breaking into house"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An 80-year-old farmer from Nipawin, Sask., says he had no choice but to kill two black bears after he caught one breaking into his house. (Photo<\/a> by Susan Drury\/Flickr<\/a>, CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NIPAWIN, Sask. \u2014 An 80-year-old farmer from Nipawin, Sask., says he had no choice but to kill two black bears after he caught one breaking into his house.<\/p>\n

Robert (Bud) Jardine says he came home in the wee hours of the morning and saw a bunch of stuff had been dragged out of his house.<\/p>\n

At first he thought it was raccoons, but when he realized the door to the freezer had been ripped off he realized he was dealing with something much larger.<\/p>\n

He shone a light into the home and saw the bear but the bruin left and with the help of a passing conservation officer, Jardine patched up the broken window with a piece of plywood.<\/p>\n

But he says a couple of hours later he awoke to the sound of plywood being torn and found the bear inside his house again.<\/p>\n

He says he was able to shoot the animal, which he later found dead in the forest, and then killed a second bear he noticed near his shed as he walked home.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know at that time in the morning I would have been sleeping,\u201d Jardine says. \u201cIf he came through the door, I knew he was going to kill me. I never saw a bear act like that before.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jardine says it’s not the first time he’s dealt with bears in and around his property.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis happens occasionally. Twenty years ago I had declared war on them. My children were in danger. Nothing good was happening. I killed 11 bears in two days at that time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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