Small young bear if only 200 pounds.
Which is good for your situation.
Chocolate is very bad for bears…..as mush as it’s bad for dogs, can make either extremely ill of if to much is eaten they can die.
In Michigan they banned using chocolate to bait bears.
Now a Bull Elk confrontation……,that’s one you’ll want to avoid.
They’re not as compliant as a bear. Crazy Elk will charge a truck.
The Elk are in rut right now and they are nuts.
When I started driving semis, I was warned to NEVER blow the horn at an elk!
I think I’ve read 2 pounds of chocolate will kill a 40 pound dog. Never met a dog that cared.
“The Elks on the other hand live up in the hills and in the spring they come down for their annual convention. It is very interesting to watch them come to the water hole. And you should see them run when they find that it’s only a water hole. What they’re looking for is an Elk-a-hole.”
~Groucho Marx, Animal Crackers