Posted on 12/05/2020 7:33:22 AM PST by SJackson
GRASS VALLEY (CBS 13) — A man’s Thanksgiving brawl ended up saving his best friend’s life.
Kaleb Bentham and his 90-pound pit bull “Buddy” spent Thanksgiving lying in bed, but they’re feeling more thankful than ever.
“Honestly the only thing I could think of was ‘save my baby,’”
It was a tale of survival, the day before Thanksgiving. Benham said Buddy was outside playing near his home off You Bet Road when something just didn’t sound right. Buddy had come face to face with a 350-pound bear.
“I heard a growl, looked about 75-100 feet down, and the bear was dragging him by his head, had his head in his mouth,” Benham said.
That horror sunk in but didn’t paralyze him.
“I just ran down there, plowed into the bear, tackled it and grabbed it by the throat and started hitting it in the face and the eye until it let go,” Benham said.
Then came the desperate dash to find a vet. The first place Benham tried, which was closest to his house, had been closed down due to a positive COVID-19 case.
“My first thought was that I was going to lose him,” Benham said.
But Mother Lode Veterinary Hospital was ready for surgery as soon as Benham got there. Buddy needed staples, stitches and tubes inserted into his head to drain fluid.
“I just stood there and watched through the window for 3 1/2 for hours,” Benham said.
And now Buddy is making a speedy recovery. But the bear is still out there and Benham said it won’t leave them alone. It’s been back to the house several times since the attack.
“It made an attack and had it’s food and it’s food got taken from it and it wants it back, I feel like,” he said.
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Now that guy has a large pair of Cajones.
Lol thank you, needed that 🤣
Certainly NOT a RESCUE dog!
Thank GOD, Buddy made it through! He’s a REAL Buddy now! :-)
The BEST of ALL TIME! Never get tired of watching that video! LOL!
Most Pitts are real sensitive and friendly dogs. I have 2. Blue Heelers are a different story, I have two of them also. Bear hunters here in Northern Idaho loose dogs every year to aggressive bears. Your dog would be a snack.
“This bear has no fear of humans and next time could be a child taken.”
Not really. The bear was aware of the human and went after the dog. And that 350 pound bear would not have run from the human if he wasn’t afraid at such close quarters. If he wanted, he’d have killed the human easily. The human is just plain lucky.
In seeing buddy on the CBS website, and three bear, none of them would have made the weight CBS is claiming they were. CBS couldn’t tell the truth if it was the only answer available.
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Start packin, next time that bear shows up introduce it to eternity!
Just “SHOOT, SHOVEL, AND SHUT UP”!
yeah but the bear wasnt wearing a mask he had right to shoot it /s
What does that mean? Was she suppose to hit the dog? How would she know that some idiot would hit her from behind.
Thanks for the Ping, guys!
“That horror sunk in but didn’t paralyze him.”
“What does that mean? Was she suppose to hit the dog? How would she know that some idiot would hit her from behind.”
I’m pretty sure the family of the dead Mom and baby wish the driver had run the mutt over (if it was not possible to steer around it which it apparently was not). I believe this happened on a fairly high speed road not a sleepy 25 MPH residential neighborhood where you might get away with stopping without being rear ended.
Three people at fault here. Primarily the drunk/druggie who rear-ended the stopped car. But both the driver who stopped and the irresponsible mutt owner could have prevented these two deaths. Keep mutts off the road.
There are two people at fault, the person who hit the car and the person who allowed the dog to roam (if it wasn’t a stray). The person who stopped wasn’t at fault at all.
“The person who stopped wasn’t at fault at all.”
OK. Go out driving on a road with a 45-55 MPH speed limit and stop at random times. No one is out there talking or texting when they should be concentrating on driving. Let me know how that works out for you.
And if a deer jumps in front of your vehicle swerve violently to avoid contact. Especially if you have passengers. They would rather end up dead or in the ICU than have your vehicle (or the deer) damaged.
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