Bear And Dog Face Off In Connecticut
BY Herschel Smith
6 years, 1 month ago
NBC:
Here’s a new Rocky matchup for you: It’s Rocky the dog versus the bear!
Pictures snapped by the dog’s owner show the tense moments between a pet and the wild animal in Wolcott.
Animal control says they’ve never seen anything like it in town until now.
“Rocky tackled the bear. The bear was on his back, paws up and Rocky was on top of him,” Wolcott resident Laura Canby explained.
Her 60-pound pit bull named Rocky is nursing some wounds after taking on a several hundred pound black bear.
“I was very scared. He wasn’t listening and coming back. He was too busy protecting me and the girls,” Canby said.
Canby said it all began when she heard the garbage cans bang outside her home yesterday. As she walked out all of a sudden Rocky darted through the yard after a nearby bear, just as the school bus arrived to drop off Canby’s older daughter.
“I freaked out and grabbed a shovel and started yelling at the school bus driver to keep the baby on the bus, don’t let her off,” Canby said.
That driver also called animal control.
While the bear could have won the fight if it had gone long term, it looks as if the bear decided it didn’t want to tangle with that dog any more. No meal from a trash can is worth that.
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On October 8, 2018 at 11:23 am, Bram said:
Except for really large males, most black bears don’t want to fight dogs. They will run from big dogs (mastiffs, great danes) or multiple dogs.