Couple Fights Off Huge Black Bear With Unusual Items

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Couple Fights Off Huge Black Bear With Unusual Items

REUTERS A 70-pound black bear attacked the dogs of a California couple in an unusual encounter. On Monday, a woman in Mammoth Lakes, a town in California near the Nevada border, heard one of her dogs barking. When she went to check out the scene, the unnamed woman saw her dog fighting with a bear, an uncommon occurrence for Mammoth Lakes residents. “Incidents like this are extremely rare in Mammoth Lakes,” Chief Dan Casabian of the Mammoth Lakes Police Department said. Despite the risk to her own safety, the woman and her partner stepped in to defend her pet. Police say the bear began “biting and clawing” her, and her partner was “aggressively confronted” by the bear, too. “She attempted to break up the fight between the two and was yelling, and the bear turned on her and ended up attacking her,” Kory Collins, California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s assistant chief, said in a statement to The Los Angeles Times. Using a water bottle and a hatchet to defend themselves and the dogs, the couple critically injured the bear and later had to be hospitalized for “significant injuries.” The dogs sustained “minor injuries.” The Mammoth Lakes Police Department later located the bear and euthanized it, ruling it a threat to public safety. “We are grateful that the couple are expected to make full recoveries and appreciate the quick response of our officers, CDFW, Bishop Veterinarian Hospital, and Mammoth Hospital Staff,” Casabian said. Read it at The Independent Read more at The Daily Beast.

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