Small dog chases bears away from home

Have you seen this? It's amazing.
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/feisty...om-calif-home/

MaryL

On 10/5/2015 12:43 PM, MaryL wrote:
Have you seen this? It's amazing.
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/feisty...om-calif-home/


MaryL

I saw it on the news. It is truly amazing!

Joy

On 10/5/2015 3:43 PM, MaryL wrote:
Have you seen this? It's amazing.
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/feisty...om-calif-home/


MaryL

Good dog! I wouldn't call that a "front yard", though. It's a fenced
brick patio. Was there dog food out there? I can't think of any other
reason for bears to be there.

Jill

On 10/5/2015 5:52 PM, jmcquown wrote:
On 10/5/2015 3:43 PM, MaryL wrote:
Have you seen this? It's amazing.
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/feisty...om-calif-home/



MaryL

Good dog! I wouldn't call that a "front yard", though. It's a fenced
brick patio. Was there dog food out there? I can't think of any other
reason for bears to be there.

Jill

The news report did not give any reason for the bears to be there.

I grew up in a rural area of northeast Ohio. Years ago, I was using the
phone and looking out of the window. Suddenly, I saw a bear ambling by
the window. I was *more* than startled. At that time, bears were not
known to inhabit Ohio. I called the local police station because the
only think of was that it might be an escapee from a a wildlife
sanctuary. Well, everyone insisted that I was mistaken. People kept
saying that it was probably a large dog. Nope. I definitely know the
difference between a bear and a dog. A few days later, people became
believers when the bear appeared on a nearby golf course. Authorities
began a search and wanted to use a tranquilizer gun so they could
transport the bear to Pennsylvania, where bears were common. That was
an extremely cold winter, and best guesswork was that the bear walked
across the Ohio River during a period when the river actually froze.

The frightening thing was that we later discovered evidence that the
bear had been hibernating in a storage shed on our property--right
behind a large pile of wood that we had been moving wood from the wood
pile to use for our fireplace. In the years since that time, bears have
returned to Ohio, and it is no longer rare to see them.

MaryL

On Mon, 5 Oct 2015 18:42:35 -0500, MaryL
wrote:

On 10/5/2015 5:52 PM, jmcquown wrote:
On 10/5/2015 3:43 PM, MaryL wrote:
Have you seen this? It's amazing.
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/feisty...om-calif-home/



MaryL

Good dog! I wouldn't call that a "front yard", though. It's a fenced
brick patio. Was there dog food out there? I can't think of any other
reason for bears to be there.

Jill

The news report did not give any reason for the bears to be there.

There are many places in California where it's common to see bears in
residential neighborhoods.

But they DID mention that the dog's owner said that neighbors fed the
bears.

On 10/5/2015 10:01 PM, The New Other Guy wrote:
On Mon, 5 Oct 2015 18:42:35 -0500, MaryL
wrote:

On 10/5/2015 5:52 PM, jmcquown wrote:
On 10/5/2015 3:43 PM, MaryL wrote:
Have you seen this? It's amazing.
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/feisty...om-calif-home/



MaryL

Good dog! I wouldn't call that a "front yard", though. It's a fenced
brick patio. Was there dog food out there? I can't think of any other
reason for bears to be there.

Jill

The news report did not give any reason for the bears to be there.

There are many places in California where it's common to see bears in
residential neighborhoods.

But they DID mention that the dog's owner said that neighbors fed the
bears.

I missed that. It's very foolish (indeed, stupid and dangerous) for the
neighbors to feed the bears--dangerous for other people in the area and
dangerous for the bears because they are often destroyed when they get
too close to people.

MaryL

"MaryL" wrote in message
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Have you seen this? It's amazing.
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/feisty...om-calif-home/

MaryL

I tried to view it but my computer said no. I need a new one, tbh as I'm
still running on XP..which is increasingly saying no to Java updates and
won't let let me read Facebook now. But I can imagine it. I had a friend
who had a french bulldog and they can be feisty if roused.
Luckily, we do not have bears here in the UK (phew) I only ever had one
dog that I know for certain would have protected me from a bear. That was
Rebel, my German Shepherd. He was an ex-police dog, retired from the force
in disgrace through doing a lot of damage to a criminal he was chasing who
kicked him in the stomach.
Once he decided he liked me (he wasn't good with women) he would have
protected me with his life. I used to take him for his last walk very late
at night. Midnight or later. If he saw someone coming towards me (unusual)
he would place his body in front of me, drop his head, and raise his tail.
That was enough to make them cross the road away from me. I think he would
have tackled a bear: he was fearless and had quite a bad temper.

I only had one whippet that might have had a go. Susan. One day I answered
the door and the police came bursting in. Wrong address..
Susan grabbed hold of the trouser leg of the first policeman through the
door. And he had the cheek to say "did your dog just bite me? because if it
did you are in serious trouble and so is your dog"
I bundled Susan away into the kitchen and said to the policeman "no she has
not bitten you. Yet. Let me see your leg, roll up your trouser leg and
show me bite marks"

He declined to do so. Because there weren't any. Susan was annoyed because
she meant to get hold of his leg and missed. What else was she expected to
do if a man bursts into her home except bite him?
It was all a mistake apparently. Right house number, wrong street. Never
got an apology.
She *might* have had a go at a bear. All my other whippets would have said
"I don't think so" It would have been their preferred option that I dealt
with the bear and policemen myself;-)

Tweed