Along the size doesn't matter line, my neighbor had an interesting event in her back yard last week. You may know that some years we have a lot of black bears roaming our streets downtown. (If everyone kept their garbage cans bear-inaccessible, the problem would go away.)

Anyway, my neighbor was lounging in her back yard along with Oreo, her black and white cat, when a bear came through the gate and lumbered toward them.

Oreo was so outraged that she leapt on the bear's hindquarters, screaming and raking away with all four legs. The bear ran. Oreo rules!

Ebbie