"That kind of love is illegal..."

Talking of bears, which we weren't, and their abilities with fire and other signs of intelligence, here's a story will knock your socks off:

"For nine days, Rocky and Jonathan Perkett heard a lone black bear cub wail from its hiding spot in a Coos County logging site.

They could drop a tree on it, or they could rescue it. They chose the latter.

For two years after the rescue, the bear grew and became a emember of the family. But when the authorities got wind of it, there was trouble a-bruin.

The father and son named her Windfall and raised it for two
years.

The men shared pizza and Dr. Pepper with the bear and gave her
free reign of their home in the woods outside Coos Bay.

The bear slept in Jonathan Perkett's bed, took showers and even
had her hair blow-dried, Rocky Perkett says.

'We're not lying about it,' says Rocky Perkett, 54, in his thick backwoods drawl. 'We lived with her. We loved her. We treated her like a daughter.'

But that kind of love is illegal in Oregon, and last week police
raided their home and took Windfall."