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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Dog has a mouthful of Ginsu knives.
It *is* carrying.
Hey! Only they are supposed to have scary dogs! No fair!
Dobies have “presence” is the best way I can describe it. The fact that they can and will take on the devil himself is evident in the way they walk, the way they look and carry themselves. They don’t have to do anything, just be.
Good looking lucky Dobie
My Rott just missed a huge blackie in Big Canoe Georgia last spring
Thank God
The behemoth traipsed out of the woods just as I put the dog back in the car not 20 yards from us
My male Rott is fearless and he woulda been mauled
It was a very big heavy set well fed Appalachin black muzzle black bear
400 pounds minimum....large for a southern mountain bear
No kidding you try to save your dog....whatever you got.....even my little munchkin wife would run for the pistol
Dobies are very appropriate for attacking humans
Maybe the best
I know a serious dog trainer was attacked by one...same exact DNA as yours and the one I had
91 stitches from biceps to forearm
If he hadn’t had choke collar he would been killed
He gave him a mild zap with training collar for aggression to other dogs and the boy gave him a brief stink eye and it was on
He found out later the dog was rejected for temperament but no one warned him
Dobie are smart and aim high on people with momentum and takedown for the throat....unusual
Our big Red coursed and take down a yearling buttonhead like nothing just to do it
But versus a big ursus they are outmatched physically unless you can throw several at them
Maybe a Caucasian or two would have a chance
But in the other hand black bear usually avoid dogs to be honest
They know dogs bring two leggers with metallic things that go boom
Life ain’t fair.
:)
The AKC standard called it The Look Of Eagles.
So there ya go.
90% of my rescues were fuzzy bunnies who would only ‘do their job’ if dire circumstances required it.
No one was ever the wiser.
Things being what they are, these days, this time around, I went for European Dobes.
They can ‘just be’...or do.
[do be do be doooo]
:D
Apparently this particular bear was habituated to humans and their garbage bins.
Plus, I think it had cubs.
*Bad* combination, that.
People always rip on Pits but the fact is, Dobermanns are the *only* breed ever created solely for the purpose of going after humans.
[robbers and waylayers, to be exact]
Yet their statistics show that they are not a “problem dog”.
Of all the Dobe fatalities [few that there are] 99% of them were done in defense of their owners.
I am not seeing any downside, there.
Their natural bite method has to be ‘altered’ for ScH work because ‘naturally’, they bite/release/jump back/rush in/bite/release etc etc rather than the required ScH bite/hold.
And a good, square Dobe is incredibly agile and will do that with insane speed.
That kind of attack is nearly impossible to defend oneself against.
Kinda like having a 100 pound rattlesnake hit you over and over.
I know people who put up a beware of dog sign with a Dobe pic on it because thieves are extremely reluctant to hit a house with one inside.
PetCo can’t keep them in stock and there are not *that* many Dobes in the area.
Some ex-con who now does PSAs about burglary mentions them as the #1 “Aw hell no” breed.
But it’s my job to make sure there are not things like bears or cougars hanging about, that they *might* think they can handle.
Not worth the risk to my dogs.
I had bears come in my driveway on winter nights and tip over the huge garbage bin by my garage. Huge mess, bags torn and stuff strewn everywhere.
I finally went to WalMart and bought one of those 1 QT pump up sprayers and filled it with a large bottle of Wally’s Lousiana Hot Sauce and the rest with water. Spray the lid of the can and the sides every few days and I keep the sprayer hooked over the handle...I dose the bags once when there are a lot. I haven’t had a bear intrusion since then (except once when I didn’t spray the bin for a month.)
>But in the other hand black bear usually avoid dogs to be honest
They know dogs bring two leggers with metallic things that go boom<
Not in namby-pamby suburbia, they don’t. They have no fear where “well, what do you expect when you live in the bear’s habitat?” is the prevailing opinion.
In my neck of the woods, good ol’ boys with hounds still put the fear of God in ol’ Yogi.
With several well placed shots of 338 Lapua.
HE ATE’EM.
Fortunately one was also a vet so that cut down on potential vet bills for the injured ones.....
I get the impression Tumblin is not pleased with such methods.
[but I applaud you]
Those of with sight hounds are handy with needle and thread.
Thin skin, brambles and surly critters are a pesky combination.
:)
“She got dem Devil Dogs!”
You’re taken shameless advantage of da ebils.
Well; all I can say in my defense is, a person has to use the methods that apply to the job that needs doing.
Defending my boys and girls comes first, even above my own safety.
Property damage (there has been plenty of it), can be repaired, the orchard can be replanted, the fields can be replanted, the chickens can be replaced, but my boys and girls are FAMILY.
The order of precedence is as follows.
1: WIFE.
2: Children.
3: Boys & Girls.
4: Self.
5: Freedom.
6: All other good dogs.
7: property.
8: Marine Corps.
9:Good (in my opinion) people.
10: The rest of the so called human race.
GOD does not enter into the numerical order because GOD is every where, in every thing.
GOD/DOG, go figure!
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