Possibly after the bear eats your dog he'll be full and leave you alone
for another day.

Stan Wilder

On Tue, 3 Sep 2002 21:48:29 -0500 John Rodgers <j_rodgers@CHARTER.NET>
writes:
> Meghan, you have been in Alaska long enough to be more sourdough than
> cheechako,
> right? And as such, surely you know how to tell when the touristers
> from the
> Lower 48 have been doing like Fish and Game have told them....."Wear
> little
> silver bells that tinkle so the bears can tell where you are!"
>
> Yep, silver bells in bear scats tells the story every time!! -[;<)>
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL Driver
> Formerly of the Kenai Peninsula
>
>
>
> Meghan Davis wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
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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
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