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Home daycare providers and parents are being extra vigilant in the Ohio Valley at the moment due to a multitude of black bear sightings.
“When the kids are outside they outnumber me. There are six of them and one of me,” said home day care provider, Meredith Patterson of Steubenville.
On Thursday, she had seen a black bear in broad daylight at a busy intersection near the Ft. Steuben Mall.
“He was coming out of the woods — that was enough for me. The kids are not going outside to play,” said Patterson.
Over the past couple of weeks bears have been observed right across the Ohio Valley: everywhere from the middle of the street to dog houses.
Patterson said that the parents of the children she cares for support her decision to keep kids indoors.
“They understand. … I don’t want to put them at risk at all. It’s on their mind and my mind. That’s why we’re inside,” she said.
Wildlife experts think it likely that the bears were kicked out of their wooded territory by other bears and will eventually go back to the wild.
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