Sitka newcomer watches helplessly as bear devours dog

The Anchorage Daily News ^ | May 14, 2014 | LAUREL ANDREWS

[skeptoid]

Paco, a 2-year-old Chihuahua-pug mix, was killed and eaten by a brown bear as Sitka resident Paula Myers watched in horror just a few feet away on Monday. Paula Myers never imagined that her first bear encounter would occur just a few feet from her Sitka home, and that her dog, 2-year-old Chihuahua-pug mix Paco, would be killed and consumed by a brown bear right in front of her eyes. Myers and her husband, Brad Langdorf, moved to Sitka in January to work at Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium. Coming to Alaska was a new adventure for the couple, Myers said. "I had not seen a bear yet," Myers said Wednesday. "I had no idea it would be 5 feet from my house, eating my dog."

[skeptoid]

Paco's pic at link

[lepton]

Must’ve been a big chihuahua (from the pug) to make a meal.

[US Navy Vet]

STUPID STUPID STUPID!

[Above My Pay Grade]

A Chinese-Mexican fusion appetizer for the brown bear.

[AU72]

Paco taco.

[bayliving]

Time for a bigger dog...

[rdcbn]

In Alaska, a large calibre rifle is always a good thing to have handy. Bears do tend to show up unexpectedly and when they do bad things can happen to the unprepared.

Paco's family should consider themselves lucky that only Paco was on the menu and that he was not just the appetizer for two legged banquet

[JRandomFreeper]

I watched an eagle snatch a chihuahua up in Ketchican. You shouldn't allow small pets to run free where the wild is so close. ;)

/johnny

[apillar]

Granpappy always told me, “Son, it’s a bear eat Chihuahua-pug mix world out there....”

[righttackle44]

Where is PETA on this? Or do they play favorites?
Are they just stupid or what? Why am I asking questions about PETA?

[Ezekiel]

Paco's pic at link

They really should have chosen another pic. Kind of creates sympathy for the bear.

Must have been a dyslexic bear, thought it was "Taco".

[McGruff]

Betcha that Internet cat could take him.

[I want the USA back]

Never trust a bear.

[McGruff]

I could take him.

[Slambat]

Hmmm Dog, food. Around here it’s the owls
that eat those little dogs. Owners fault.

[defconw]

Yep, stupid! We are in South Dakota, pets can not just be let out here, let alone Alaska. People this dumb should not have a dog. God help them if they have a child.

[BigEdLB]

They need an IRISH WOLFHOUND. The bear will do a 180 in a hurry.

[null and void]

Welcome to the middle of the food chain, Paula!

[skinkinthegrass]

Bear:"Ok!..so much, for hor'dors/snack..where's the real meal?" *burp!*

[IYAS9YAS]

Then she didn’t do her research. I was offered and almost accepted a job in Juneau. I researched the hell out of everything I could find. In that research was a weekly LEO bear report. Sightings, trash, etc.. Also, they had rules on trash cans for the area to help prevent attracting bears.