Posted on 03/08/2024 11:51:21 AM PST by george76
A Pennsylvania woman is recovering in a hospital after a vicious assault by a mother bear ..
The incident reportedly took place around 8:30 p.m. just outside the victim’s house. Lee Ann Galante, 55, stepped out to let her dog, a small black Pomeranian, enjoy the backyard, ... With injuries across her arm, face, neck and head, Galante’s condition necessitated urgent medical attention, police said,.. She was rushed to the nearby hospital following the attack
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"I thought I was going to die." A woman who was hospitalized after being mauled .
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Galante shared her ordeal from her hospital bed and described the moment she feared for her life during the bear attack. “She had me down and she was on top of me.. I thought I was going to die.”
“I never thought this would happen to me,”
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Then she got me by the back of my head and she was pulling so hard on it — I thought I was gonna get scalped,” Galante ... “She pulled so hard that it did pull the skin from the back of my ear and I have stitches back there.”
Black bear fatally attacks man drinking coffee in his yard and drags him 75 feet, Arizona
https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article276484731.html
Wowzer; he was very lucky to crawl away from that Black Bear!
So many states will arrest YOU if you kill a dangerous predator, that most people will hesitate. In PA you can’t shoot bears or rattlesnakes anymore without risk of going to prison if they are near your domicile. This is one case where a federal law would be useful, saying that every American has the right to shoot any dangerous predator on sight to include any poisonous snake, dog/coyote/wolf, bear, alligator, birds of prey, with no questions asked and regardless of protected status.
[Black bear fatally attacks man drinking coffee in his yard and drags him 75 feet, Arizona
https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article276484731.html]
.44 magnum is the cure for bears in your yard.
If you live in the suburbs or the country and you if your neighbors keep chickens, there’s a very good chance bears have been in your yard and will be back. If you take your dog out for a late pee, you better have a firearm handy.
I don’t care how tough your Pitbull or Shepard is, the bear is tougher
”Let’s blame it on ‘them’, Yogi.”
Likely moved to a shelter or sanctuary if they’re too young to be self sufficient.
That cartoon and the toilet paper ad are part of the problem. Children, who grow up, get the wrong impression about bears ... if they have claws and fangs, they are to be feared.
Lol, what a great cartoon!
No town mentioned?
FYI... Black bear attacks are mainly from male bears not sows with cubs...they usually run. FACT
Respected, anyway. I’ve been really close to black bears, and they generally take off quickly when they discover it.
The huggy polar bear ad, too.
Bird feeders should not be used in neighborhoods where bears roam.
It was Butler Township, Butler County, PA. I live a few miles away but in a different township. I see black bears in my yard all the time and they are never a problem. But when I so see one, I arm myself (much like coyotes which in PA there is no closed season). But I do hate the scat they leave in the back yard.
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