On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 01:34:47PM -0700, Bill N wrote: > Dogs will keep black bears out of your camp, but grizzlies will come in just to kill and eat > the dog. We had grizzlies around where we lived in BC, they never seemed interested in our dogs, or our horses, goats, or chickens, for that matter. And we used to see fresh griz track in the sandbars along the river right near the cabin. Personally I'd always prefer to have a dog along in bear country. If nothing else, the dog will keep the bear busy for while. I had a friend who survived a griz attack -- the griz came up at night while they were sleeping (no tent, and just blankets and ground cloth) and grabbed my friend, lifted him off the ground and started ripping at him. What saved him was the blanket got caught in the bears teeth and went over his head and he dropped the guy and stood there trying to get the blanket off his head, where upon my friend and his wife got up in some trees. You should see the scars. A dog would have alerted them a long time before the bear got near. And probably scared the bear away --
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