Posted on 08/27/2015 8:43:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A dog is recovering after receiving deep scratches and lacerations on its body and neck during a scuffle with a bear in a residential neighborhood in between Leesburg and Eustis.
Kim Givens said she had let her Doberman named Bo out in the backyard of her home in the Wedgewood subdivision before they went to bed late Aug. 8. She said about 11:30 p.m. she saw Bo bolt from her backyard and go down the hill her home sits on. She opened the sliding-glass door and heard loud growling and "horrible mauling sounds."
Kim Givens' Doberman named Bo happily playing outside her Grand Island home before being injured in the neighborhood by a bear. (Kim Givens)
"I knew it was the bear as soon as I heard those noises," said Givens, 46. "It was frightening. I don't ever want to hear those types of noises again."
Givens said she stayed inside and peered out her windows until the dog ran up to her back porch with injuries.
"He had these gashes in his neck and was bleeding a lot," she said. Bo also had deep puncture wounds on his side and scratches along his back but is expected to recover.
I'm glad your dog is OK, but if you knew there was a mama bear and cubs in the area, why would you let you dog run loose? The bear was doing what a mam bear does. protect her young. If these ******** people that continue to forget that you are living near wild creature and sometimes you...
She said she sees a bear and two cubs in the neighborhood at least three times a week, a trend she said started last year when Lake County delivered new large garbage cart as part of a new trash-collection system. Residents are
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That’s one tough dog. Bo has bragging rights at the dog park now.
That dog reminds me of my sons Doberman....beautiful creatures!
Russian Karelian bear dogs fight bears, and they used to bait bulldogs with bears in England, but they would set one after another. Let’s hope this boy leaves bears alone. He was lucky.
“Givens said she stayed inside and peered out her windows until the dog ran up to her back porch with injuries.”
Oh, hell no.
Stupid or not, I would be running *toward* my dog with whatever weapons I could grab, not hiding inside.
My solution is to make life really unpleasant for the bears.
We have them wander in, around here, once in a while.
None of us coo and go into “Disney mode.”
They are forced to leave.
This attitude is exactly why there is a bear problem.
If every bear sighted were shot the problem would be resolved shortly.
Maybe if she goes out and talks them, reasonably, they’ll see her point of view and move on.
:::rolling eyes so hard I can see my brain:::
Can’t they just issue the bear a citation?
Once a bear starts eating garbage he will be a problem bear forever. Should be shot on sight.
LOL
Somehow, I *knew* Baloo was gonna be there even before I clicked that.
I am just gobsmacked that she admitted hiding in the house until the wounded dog came back.
I would hate to admit the insane things I would do, if my dogs were in peril.
[one time, I got into a fist fight with a Golden Eagle who wanted to dine on my Podengo]
Sensitivity training.
It’s the only way.
Somehow, I think Bo knows enough about his owner to know he was proceeding without backup.
So like us!
Take a switch to ‘em, do you?
Very true! ;^)
Uhhhhh...yeah.
A switch.
>.<
Sadly, the noble beast probably went out thinking to defend her worthless carcass.
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