Man (Freeper kanawa) stabs bear to death

The Record.com ^ | Jul 22, 2006 | MELINDA DALTON

[TASMANIANRED]

Rescued dogs are special.

I think they know how fortunate they are.

[Lady Jag]

It's been may 15 years since I've had any. I wonder if it's sold anywhere. We regularly see buffalo burger in the local supermarkets...

[TASMANIANRED]

Keelhaul a hedgehog..

[TASMANIANRED]

It's certainly up there...

[Irish_Thatcherite]

That sounds like a fair fight!!

[Tench_Coxe]

Oh, I also would add that I've found the temperment of standards to be quite different than that of their diminuitive relatives (toys--otherwise known as pesky,yappy footballs in waiting).

[mware]

Tom Tilley was a man. Yes a big man. With an eye like an eagle and as tall as a mountain was he.

Tom Tilley was a man. Yes a big man. He was brave he was fearless and as tough as a mighty oak tree

From the coonskin cap on the top of ole Tom To the heel of his rawhide shoe The rippin’est roarin’est fightin’est man The frontier ever knew.

Tom Tilley was a man. Yes a big man. And he fought for Canada to make all Canadians free. What a Boone. What a wonder. What a dream comer truer was he.

[TASMANIANRED]

Those things are prickley...

[bitt]

a MANLY MAN! and a.....MANLY DOG!!!!

tftp.....

[Tench_Coxe]

I myself had a close encounter grouse hunting some years ago. I only had a single shot 16 ga when I noticed some shadows out of the corner of my eye in the woods to my left. Those shadows were going to cross the two-track in front of me, so I decided to stop--thinking they were coyotes and I could get a poke at one of them.
Well, lo and behold--out onto the road, about 30 feet in front ambles this fairly sizeable sow (black bear). She didn't notice me at first. But then she glanced and saw me standing there. Needless to say, that single shot 16 wasn't gonna do jack squat, so I just got ready, if necessary, to fill her face with lead and run if she came after me, hoping that I could blind her. Instead, she snorted and ran into the woods to my right ( I could hear the crashing for a bit ). Next, two cubs come tumbling out onto the road and ran after momma.
I took a step forward, heard some rustling, then decided to step back and wait, only to see a third cub tumble out the road and take a good long look at me before resuming its chase after momma. That was something else.
And that's about as close as I want to get unless I was packing something heavier.
Idiots like that Treadwell fellow I linked to in another post fail to realize that you don't mess with bears--they aren't cuddly, friendly, or particularly kind if they decide they don't like you. They are good eating, though.

[mware]

It could have been a lot worse.

[Louis Foxwell]

I suggest you take it up with the poster who posted to me, first.
Sorry, Dude. You are solely responsible for your posts. That is the law in these parts.

[dinasour]

... and worse still

11. He didn't ask the bear, "Why do bears hate me".

[Tench_Coxe]

Yeah, tell me about it. All it would have taken to change that scenario would have been to keep walking and gotten between momma and that third cub.
Gotta respect kanawa. Dude leap frogged over the fear reaction for love of his dog and did in a bear. Amazing story.

[R. Scott]

A real life Davy Crockett!

[R. Scott]

That one is just a tad bit bigger than 200 pounds.

[JockoManning]

Agreed.

She does seem to look at life through different eyes than most dogs.

She still dances for joy every day when I get home from work. Then I ask her what she has to say for herself and what she did to earn her keep that day. Not that she speaks English, but I'm sure she expects me to ask. She just wags her tail and waits for me to pet her and maybe give her a biscuit.



BTW, she earns her keep is by barking her head off at the wild rabbits just outside the fence. Good thing, too. Hard telling what might happen if she didn't. ??? Those just might be killer bunnies and she's trying to warn everyone.

Of course, she really earns her keep by being my buddy-dog. Can't imagine life without her.

jm

[Louis Foxwell]

Don't listen to Candor's mysticism about the bear's spirit etc.

_____________________________

Sadly you do not know an animal as a friend or an enemy. Your constricted theology gets in the way of God's works. Because most Am Natives knew the Lord before they met Europeans they quickly understood Christ and His sacrifice. Jesus had several documented contacts with animals. Each was spiritual in nature.

[mware]

That one is Bart who died in 2000.

He is the one that was going after Alec Balwin, in that movie with Anthony Hopkins, glad he didn't eat him though, it would have given Bart indigestion.

[stand watie]

interesting.

he is REALLY brave, not that i think an "AmStaf" NEEDED his help! (ASs are "TOUGH customers"!)

GREAT STORY though.

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