Posted on 09/22/2014 7:29:23 PM PDT by marktwain
Not just WI. If they are not hunted they look at us as prey, slow, no defense and easy to kill and eat.
My hat is off to those who hunt them, but I will not; I have found that any mammal that eats meat does not digest well for me. I won’t hunt what I don’t want to eat. So, to those of you that do; thanks.
Black bears are super-sized squirrels. They don’t eat people.
My friends in the North Woods say they’ve been seeing a lot of bears on their properties.
Just North of the Dells and we have seen bears. Occasionally one will end up in Wisconsin Dells searching thru dumpsters. They are all over.
“They don’t eat people.”
Wanna bet?
Did the dogs follow the bear by swimming across the river, or did the dog handler have to take them over?
Bear dogs sound tough.
You don’t think dogs that tackle bears are tough?
I have a dog that used to fight bulls and occasionally baited bears. But that was then, Victorian England, while these dogs look like the real deal today.
OK, they use bulldogs now against feral hogs, so that’s pretty cool. Did we ever resolve the ‘Brown bear fights a Giant Feral Hog’ dispute?
Zumba classes for them. keep them out of trouble.
Nice article, but I have to wonder when someone uses the term “gun culture”? I have plenty of gun and know many who do also, but we don’t live in a “gun culture”. It just sounds stupid.
There was a black bear here in North Jersey about 10 miles from my house that ate the Indian guy it killed. This was two days ago.
The gun culture has precipitated out of the older gun culture by the attacks on gun ownership and rights over the last 50 years.
There is a scholarly discussion of it in this book:
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2014/07/book-review-rise-of-anti-media-by-brian.html
We don't have bear dogs around my parts, but there are a lot of pig dogs, and they are very rugged. Sometimes the owners give them little body armor to protect against the tusks, but they still get cut up real good.
Owners commonly sew them up in the field. They use suture products made for horses, with the little curved needle already affixed. I thought those were a good idea so I bought some for myself and family for post-SHTF.
yes, but she did not EAT him.
The dogs swam the river.
“the male bear was walking in a circle about 30 yards from the victim's body and wouldn't leave even after officers tried to scare it away by making loud noises and throwing sticks and stones.”
The news services like to further the “bambi” vision of wildlife, and tend to downplay animal attacks.
or that the poor guy had some Honey Stingers in his pockets
The gentle giant only wanted their Swisher Sweets.
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