On a backpack into the eastern Sierras (California mountains) a few years
ago, we has a large black bear make a sweep through our camp late one
night.  One of our group had 2 dogs in her tent.  Both stayed nice & quiet
including the dobermann.  I was surprised, but I guess, the dogs were
smarter than I gave them credit for.

//Jack

On 3 Sep 2002, at 21:28, David Marshall wrote:

> In this area they say leave your dog as home.  Usually if a dog sees a bear,
> it will run back to you for protection!  :)
>
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> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
> Of Meghan Davis
> Sent: September 3, 2002 4:48 PM
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> 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 --
> >
> >
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> >Harmon Seaver
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