You can come down now - he's gone
Posted on 05/19/2011 1:44:01 PM PDT by JoeProBono
KIRKLAND, Wash. - A Washington state man said his teacup poodle chased an approximately 200-pound black bear up a tree in his back yard.
Robert Carroll of the Rose Hill neighborhood in Kirkland said he ran outside when his 21-year-old daughter shouted there was a bear in the back yard about 9:30 a.m. Tuesday and he watched as the family poodle, Shmoopy, charged the bruin and chased it up a tree, the Kirkland Reporter reported Wednesday.
"The bear was really startled -- I was not too worried about the dog at the time," Carroll said. "I was only thinking, bear in yard! Rose Hill? I have seen coyotes and deer in this neighborhood, but not in a million years did I ever think seeing a bear in this neighborhood was possible."
Carroll said he clapped his hands at the bear and it jumped from the tree into a neighbor's yard.
Alicia Ames, who has lived about a mile from Rose Hill Junior High for 12 years, said she spotted a bear that may have been the same animal about 6 a.m. Tuesday. She said her dogs barked at the bear, and it climbed her fence and fled the area. Ames said it was the first time she had heard of a bear being in the area.
You can come down now - he's gone
Rock on, Shmoopy!
He lacks the physical capability to kill a field mouse.
I worry when he is out that a crow will eat him.
A poodle is a dog. Technically.
I'll bet she's a little female who knows how to handle things.:)
LOL! Cutest thread on the site today.
Thanks for the ping and post.
Heh, Teacup Poodle ping. :-)
Many years ago, I had a Dobie, and my then new wife had a teacup. The animals got along great..slept and ate together, and played...the poodle can get quite active..dashing madly back and forth, and every once in a while, the Dobie would lift a paw and accidentalyy swat the teacup, and she’d go flying through th air, bounce off a wall like a ball, shake it off, and come back for more...They are very smart dogs..I swear that this one had a working vocabulary ( that she could understand) of nearly 100 words..
And it just gets cuter! Poodle eye candy for a sunny afternoon.
Embarrassingly I admit the ex and I had a toy poodle a couple of decades ago. I always kept it shaggy which made it look cuter than sickeningly poodle-ish.
It was raised running with the neighbor’s pitt bull so it never thought of itself as a runt. Thankfully she died of ailments and not at the teeth of another pissed off dog she challenged...and there were many.
Very, very nice. You’re getting really good at that.
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