The bears and mountain lions do need to be thinned out a little.
A man, his dog and a heck of a bear tale with a happy ending.
Well done Kanawa.
You aren't kidding about the bears and mountain lions around here, as I well know. Another neighbor saw a mountain lion take a calf out of a pasture in broad daylight. He was on his horse, and didn't have his rifle. He said no animal made a sound, not even his horse, or the calf, or the lion.
We don't go out in our yard without the dogs, day or night, being surrounded by a couple of thousand acres of woods.