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July 26th, 2006 at 9:12 am
Time to ban knife wielding owners now, I guess.
July 26th, 2006 at 12:38 pm
Good thing it was a small bear; if it had been as big as most black bears I have seen, they both would have become lunch for the bear.
July 26th, 2006 at 11:38 pm
Oh! That poor bear!
Clearly the unprovoked attack was somehow the fault of the dog and its owner!
Bah… 😛
July 26th, 2006 at 11:59 pm
I guess you don’t have any experience with bears. Hint: dogs natural behavior provokes bears natural aggression. Dogs and bears don’t mix well. But what do I know, I carry 158grJSP 357mags in bear country. The fault is in not knowing what happens with wild animals.
July 27th, 2006 at 10:02 am
Seeing as in all of Canada and in the US parks, you can’t carry to protect yourself, would you go in to the park with a dog or without?
July 27th, 2006 at 12:04 pm
Without. Don’t want to provoke bears. However I don’t go into parks, only national forests, so I do carry.
July 27th, 2006 at 3:20 pm
Dogs are also prohibited in many areas of US national parks.
July 27th, 2006 at 4:07 pm
I once read about a guy that fished salmon up in Alaska. He used dogs as an early warning system for bears. He also carried a large handgun as backup and a large shotgun as primary defense.
Seeing as dogs are used to hunt bears, I would figure that bears, being reasonably smart critters, might be repelled by the barking of dogs
Of course the rules totally change when you get to a US national parks (and I presume, Canada). The animals learn that the hikers have food and they don’t fight back, so they go after the food. I’ve heard recommendations that if a bear is after your food, you and a hiker should bang pots, throw pine cones and shout to try to drive off the bear. Again, this is the wacknut advice given to defenseless hikers, mind you. Sooner or later the bears figure out that people carry food, and that food never fights back. The park service requires in many places that food remain locked in a car trunk, but that only works until the bears figure out that they can use their strength and claws as a giant can opener. They can set live traps and pepper spray and relocate the bears, but it does not always work. sometimes they need to move the bears to a zoo, or if there isn’t any more space, put the bear down.
I’m totally flabbergasted by the park service. On one hand, they are more than willing to manage the parks in some ways, like closing abused areas to camping, or to build a deck around Old Faithful, but they are totally against managing the wildlife. Where there is absolutely no danger of extinction, they should manage the hunting of wildlife. This keeps the bears afraid of people, so they go out of their way to avoid people and they don’t beg for handouts that can make them sick or dependent on people food.
Although I do support carry in national parks, I don’t think it should be done tomorrow. I think we need a limited hunt first to change the feeding habits of yogi bear.
That brings us to another paradox, (besides more guns; less crime), Bear bags, bear boxes, and pepper spray are not enough, we need to hunt the bears in order to save the bears.