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Terrifying moment family taking their dog out for a walk are chased back into their home by a bear charging them in Florida
Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | April 29, 2022 | Alastair Talbot

Posted on 04/29/2022 5:32:08 AM PDT by Cecily

Scary footage from a home camera shows the moment a couple and their dog were chased back into their house by an angry black bear.

On Tuesday, in Apopka, Florida, the couple had just stepped outside with their dog.

'We were letting the dog out to potty and a bear charged us from our next-door neighbor's house,' said the woman who lives there with her husband.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Local News; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: fl; florida; nexttimetakeagun
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Little dog was ready to stand her ground and do battle.

This is not a moment you would want to be struggling with the door key.

1 posted on 04/29/2022 5:32:08 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: Cecily

How do you stop a bear from charging.......take away his credit card.


2 posted on 04/29/2022 5:39:10 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (Open up the window curtains wide and let in God's light!)
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To: Cecily

“a bear charged us from our next-door neighbor’s house”

I hate it when my neighbor let’s their bear off the leash.


3 posted on 04/29/2022 5:40:43 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: 4yearlurker

You know the old joke.......I don’t have to run faster than the bear....I just have to run faster than YOU


4 posted on 04/29/2022 5:42:04 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: Cecily

Must be why they labeled the nearby lake, Bear Lake.


5 posted on 04/29/2022 5:42:36 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Cecily

How would I stop the bear? Pull out my concealed carry and do a mag dump into the bear’s face.


6 posted on 04/29/2022 5:44:03 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Cecily
...and now we have

Florida Man Bear


7 posted on 04/29/2022 5:45:50 AM PDT by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)
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To: Cecily

Oh great another article bashing the alleged bad behavior of one bear. And I don’t see anybody asking the bear why he chased them. Probably one of them dropped a wallet or something and he just tried to return it. But they just ran in fear because of all the negative stereotypes people have of us.


8 posted on 04/29/2022 5:53:42 AM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: Cecily

9 posted on 04/29/2022 6:20:52 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything.)
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To: Roccus

We have it all.......bears, gators and giant pythons.......oh my!


10 posted on 04/29/2022 6:28:50 AM PDT by Guenevere (‘Let us fight as if it all depended on us, but let us look up and know it all depends upon Him’)
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To: Guenevere

Giant bugs too, don’t forget about the @#$& giant bugs!


11 posted on 04/29/2022 6:33:09 AM PDT by skepsel ("A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime", Mark Twain.)
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To: skepsel

They’re called Palmetto bugs and they can fly!.....flying giant cockroaches


12 posted on 04/29/2022 6:37:28 AM PDT by Guenevere (‘Let us fight as if it all depended on us, but let us look up and know it all depends upon Him’)
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To: Cecily
That happened to my wife. The bear chased the dog. The dog--a large German shepherd--hid behind her. She had a book in her hand and threw it at the bear, hitting it on the snout. The bear turned around and ran away.

Imagine what would have happened to the bear if it had been one of her children instead of a dog!

13 posted on 04/29/2022 6:40:37 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Saints are sinners who never gave up. --St. Theresa of Avila)
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Apopka is like 10 miles north of Orlando.

Ocala National Forest is about 20 miles north of Apopka, so a bear that size is a long way from home!

That animal was big enough to kill a human being, and it was probably hungry, too.

14 posted on 04/29/2022 7:00:39 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: Cecily

Stay away from Florida, alligators, snakes, Florida man, and now bears!


15 posted on 04/29/2022 7:04:10 AM PDT by D Rider ( )
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Re: Florida has it all.......bears, gators, and giant pythons.......oh my!

You forgot to mention the iguanas that fall out trees when the temperature goes below 40 F.


16 posted on 04/29/2022 7:04:51 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: D Rider
Stay away from Florida, alligators, snakes, Florida man, and now bears!

Florida Man most dangerous of these threats by far...

17 posted on 04/29/2022 7:29:18 AM PDT by ghost of nixon
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To: Cecily

Notice the guy was in first, then the wife, and last was the little dog.


18 posted on 04/29/2022 7:41:50 AM PDT by suekas
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To: Roccus

Naaah, that wasn’t a bear. That was a furby (the TWOT’s who dress up in animal costumes so they can practice bestiality) who was turned away from a grooming session at DisneyWorld.


19 posted on 04/29/2022 8:10:01 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: suekas

The dog could have outrun all of them, but she wanted to play or fight. I hope she got to do her business, because nobody was leaving the house again for awhile.


20 posted on 04/29/2022 8:26:02 AM PDT by Cecily
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