Thanks everyone for replies.
I know, his coat is beautiful, from my nutritional diet, I must add
I've never raised one to be harvested
LOL
Yes it is becoming a dilema, the longer I watch him, the more I think that the fur looks better on him than on my wall.
I realize that the is no guarantee that he will hang around even this season, and to meet him in Spring 2005 is a really long shot.
Side note,
If you check Black Bear size records, couple of years ago, not far from place I hunt in Manitoba, a car killed Blackie 800 lbs +, it was only few lbs shy from North American record, some people still dispute it because the bear was scaled after loss of gallons of body fluids. Many local hunters were saying that it was "garbage" bear because normally we don't see them that huge, maybe up north, but not 50 miles from Winnipeg - city of 600,000 population.