Posted on 06/09/2005 11:16:38 AM PDT by JZelle
HARRISONBURG, Va. (AP) - A 200-pound black bear charged into a home and went on a 40-minute rampage, attacking a dog and damaging a basement guest room as it tried to claw its way out. Rosie, a 3-year-old blue heeler, was treated by a veterinarian for puncture wounds, but her owners were not injured. Karla Irving said that when she let Rosie out Saturday night, she heard the dog barking and caught a glimpse of something small scurrying in the darkness. Her eyes followed a bear cub up a tree, and when she looked back down she saw more movement.
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My wife saws a big black shape in our backyard at dusk a couple weeks ago.
At first she thought it was a bear, but it turned out to be the neighbor's dog.
"Candygram"
Where does a bear go on a rampage?
Anywhere he wants to.
electric fences for all? my uncle has beehives, and prowling bears. occasionally he finds a steaming pile of bear plop where a bear has tried the fence, but hasn't lost any hives.
He just had to use the bathroom! 
"electric fences for all?"
Well, that or smaller dogs!
Did they have Charmin tissue?
LOL I guess I've been watching too many commercials!
I would assume that if this lady saw a bear cub racing up a tree, that the attacking bear was probably one pissed off mama bear out for the kill. I imagine once she got out of the house and found her cub, she and the cub took off for parts unknown. Nothing worse than a mama bear on a rampage.....(or any mama anything...)
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