There was a story up here really recently about a guy who got attacked by a
grizzly and the only thing that saved him was his German Shepherd, who was
also okay. Maybe it would be a good Idea to put bells on the dogs like they
tell people to wear. Usually a bear will try to leave people alone and it's
only when they are surprised that it becomes a problem. Usually. Anyways,
everybody I know has dogs and spends quite a bit of time in the middle of
nowhere and the dogs are fine. Where I commercial fish, bears often come
down the bank and all of us fisherpeople have dogs wandering. I've never
heard of anyone having a problem. No big thing. Megh

>From: Harmon Seaver <hseaver@CYBERSHAMANIX.COM>
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>On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 01:34:47PM -0700, Bill N wrote:
> > Dogs will keep black bears out of your camp, but grizzlies will come in
>just to kill and eat
> > the dog.
>
>     We had grizzlies around where we lived in BC, they never seemed
>interested
>in our dogs, or our horses, goats, or chickens, for that matter. And we
>used to
>see fresh griz track in the sandbars along the river right near the
>cabin. Personally I'd always prefer to have a dog along in bear country. If
>nothing else, the dog will keep the bear busy for while. I had a friend who
>survived a griz attack -- the griz came up at night while they were
>sleeping (no
>tent, and just blankets and ground cloth) and grabbed my friend, lifted him
>off
>the ground and started ripping at him. What saved him was the blanket got
>caught
>in the bears teeth and went over his head and he dropped the guy and stood
>there
>trying to get the blanket off his head, where upon my friend and his wife
>got
>up in some trees. You should see the scars.
>     A dog would have alerted them a long time before the bear got near.
>And
>probably scared the bear away --
>
>
>--
>Harmon Seaver
>CyberShamanix
>http://www.cybershamanix.com

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