I know there's some that have been putting out bait, in hopes of getting more and/or better evidence regarding bigfoot. After seeing the following story today, I'm wondering if this practice could be creating a problem. First the story....



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Later in the story a Wildlife Mangement employee wanted to remind people that deer are wild animals and NOT to feed them. They believe that's what created this problem, and the deer had lost it's fear of humans.

We know it also happens with bears and cougars, but what about bigfoot? How long are the bait stations continually being replenshed? Is it only days or weeks, months or years? Could we be creating a dependency on that food for bigfoot? Will it cause him to become more at ease to expose himself, or could it create a problem with someone is on their way out to rebait the station and maybe get attacked because bigfoot knows you have the food with you, or at least have in the past? Maybe you won't and when he finds that out, now depending partially on that food, will he become violent?

Just some thoughts and eagerly awaiting your input! :eek3dance:

I was thinking of this a few days ago. I decided to myself that it does represent a risk such that a continued large scale baiting operation would be detrimental to long term human/sasquatch relations. The shorter term risk, which is possibly higher, is that bears or other critters are noshing out on the stuff, and THOSE critters will ambush you for it.

So I figured that I would not do much "freebie" baiting, just enough to get some interest, and then try and initate contact and make them work for it. Was wondering if the concept of trade would work, you bring me a pound of truffles, I give you a bag of apples, something like that. Then that might get the idea over that humans won't just fork over food for the heck of it, however, there's still nothing stopping them deciding to take your "trade" goods. So it's all down to trust in the end. You could get someone to literally ride shotgun with you I guess.

I was also trying to think of foods and methods of carrying them that don't release any amount of odor until you get them to the bait site. So you don't attract attention on the way in from BF or anything else.

Anyhoo, a worthy thing to consider if anyone is going to attempt long term contact, to make sure it's done with the best interests of all in mind,

Flashman

I think that the problem would be in the scale and frequency of baiting. I agree that putting out the equivelant of a bigfoot Thanksgiving feast each day could be a problem in many ways. But I do not think that there would be as much of a problem if the baiting was of small ammounts. And not put out every day.

Say, three apples, a pear and a banana put out every 3rd day could work over a long term. So that a creature would become use to including a feeding station in its regular rounds. So that it would start to swing by for a treat or desert - but not for a full meal.

What you do not want to do is have the b.f. become dependant on you for a good part of its food. And if the baiting stops, that the b.f. will just be disapointed, and not desperate if the food is not not there.

I know that some might think that providing a feast would bring in and keep the animal in one area. But I think that would be a mistake. You want the baiting to be close to natural. Like the b.f. dropping by its favorite berry bush.

The trick is that you have to label the bait as "Bigfoot Fud" so other critters don't eat it :laugh:

when a bigfoot puts his hands on your shoulders and licks you in the face then you may have a baiting problem.

Actually, this is a scenario that I have heard about a few time with deer feeders. Some people are using the PVC feeders and have made reports of seeing the creatures eating out of them and even pulling the feeders loose and leaving the feeders in another area of the woods.

If you have a scenario where bigfoot is frequenting a bait pile, there would be ample room to collect tangible evidence before it became dependant. There are plenty of people that bait bear / deer, and I have never heard of a scenario where bigfoot attacked. I would consider it a safe activity as far as bigfoot goes.

Baiting any wild animal could resort to a dependence on the food you are or were leaving. I have done plenty of baiting and have had no problems to date, but we do have coyote that frequesnt the sites and it is a concern that they could stop fearing humans and begin to possibly attack.

I try not to think of the baiting negatives myself simply because of the very interesting results we are getting at our baiting sites. Baiting is very fun, and very interesting.

Unfortunatly I think other animals in the woods will be the problem rather than taiming Bigfoot. If we could get Bigfoot to be our pals that easily we can all get him on video.