View Full Version : Funny but could have been dangerous!!!!
Roger Mayer
10-29-2001, 09:33 PM
Just about 20 minutes ago I was working at my computer. I hear my three dogs barking and they won't shut up. So I get my butt outta my chair and go out side. I see my big dog lying down in the bush next to one large poplar tree and some small spruce and balsam. My male chow (dog) is in front of him (big dog) I see something whiteish in between them. So I walk over to see what it is. I was thinking it maybe a bone that they are bickering over. So I get there and look down and it's a piece of styrofoam. So as I pick it up a small branch lands near me. I figured I knocked it off one of the pine trees. I stand back up and look around and a big poplar branch lands right in front of me making my dogs jump. Now I'm wondering what the heck is going on. As I look up I hear something scratching and a subtle hiss.
Now remember it's dark out......but when I looked up it was really dark. I point my flash light right above my head and I'm looking at a bear's rear end about 4-5 feet above me. I look around me and my dogs are gone!!!!! Needless to say that the bear is coming down and I got outta there nice and slow/fast as I could before he hit the ground!!!!
Once I was back far enough this bear must have went 300-400 pounds! His belly was dragging the ground!
Well I gotta go find the toilet paper and a change of underware!!!!!!
Roger Mayer
WAeyes
10-29-2001, 10:07 PM
WOW! Great story of a close call with a big furry. Where do you live to have such an exciting back yard?
Roger Mayer
10-29-2001, 10:13 PM
Hi WAeyes,
In the province where they banned the spring bear hunt of course!!!
I live near Thunder Bay Ontario Canada. I live on a lake about 25 miles from Thunder Bay in the country.
Get almost everything near here. The best was when the dogs were barking to go outside. I open the door to let them out and there was a skunk right there and he let us all have it and there I was standing there with the door opened!
Nothing like that fresh smell of skunk so thick you can taste it and a very upset wife and three dogs and a house that reeks!
I had to take a couple of days off work!!!
Roger.
Gumbo
10-29-2001, 11:31 PM
I say we have the next Get-Together at Roger's house! I remember seeing pics of your last house on the lake, and this place sounds incredible too!
Roger Mayer
10-30-2001, 04:12 AM
Hi Dennis!
It's the same place.
After I wrote the above I had to bring the 2 smaller dogs in. The big dog treed the s.o.b. again!
Had my wife pleading me to get the big dog (his name is Lucky). So I put my foot down and told her Lucky is doing his job and problably did this many times before and could take care of himself.......so I did what any normal husband would do.....I went out and got the dog.
Every thing I say goes...........right out the window! Ha Ha!
Roger Mayer.
Ya know eyes,..you don't have to be in a real exciting place to have bears in W. Ma,..I live in the middle of of a small city of about 22,000,..and I have had them 3x this year..... this spring a mother and two cubs once.....I remember a bear biologist who tagged all kinds of bears referred to black bears as dangerous as Elsie the family cow compared to a Cape buffalo..(black bears compared to grizzilys) but I don't remember a few disagreeable cows in my life so I still give em wide berth,..esp moms w/ cubs,...
bearboy!
10-30-2001, 04:02 PM
I hate b.s.ers
C'mon!
10-30-2001, 05:15 PM
Are you joking or just ignorant? A full grown bear could outclimb you any day. Bears climb trees everyday, otherwise why would they have treeing bear dogs? You from Chicago or what?
THUMPER
10-30-2001, 07:18 PM
You are lucky going out in bear country after your dogs have been barking for a long time with only a flashlight in the middle of the night. We had a problem a few years ago with an animal that hung around and hung around. I have young kids........ I anchored him with one shot from the 06. Problem solved. Every year bears kill people in the bush. An animal that hangs around humans and shows no fear is going to get shot on my property every time. We do not leave any food or garbage out and commonly see bears. I leave them alone untill they become a problem. Then I do what has to be done..........I'll leave the bear hugging to the people from the big cities.
chrism
10-30-2001, 08:00 PM
Ditto...
There is always one....
10-30-2001, 08:22 PM
Wow. Full grown bears don't climb trees? So I guess the girl in Northern WI a few years back that was attacked, while up a tree hunting, by a full grown mother with cubs was halucinating?
Full grown bears don't climb trees, geez.
ristorapper
10-30-2001, 09:04 PM
Sounds like a similar story we have had on my brother-in-laws farm with rattlesnakes. We leave them alone until they invade his farmyard and then we have a little get together and go after those pesky rattlers.
BW(ND)
maybe polar bears can't,...maybe full grown grizzilies can't,...but I assure you,...black bears are great climbers,...perhaps the very biggest males have a hard time,...but grown blacks climb all the time,..careful about calling someone names,....
vetspet(ind)
10-31-2001, 07:02 AM
when i lived in northern minn one of my best friends' dog began growling at nite..he yelled to be quiet....dog kept it up...he yelled again...dog continued and he smacked the dog...dog kept growling and so he decided something was wrong and got up and checked the home...opened the garage door...attached garage...there was a black bear in the garage...somebody left the large car door open and the bear just came in...he never hit the dog again...steve
Eyewitness
10-31-2001, 08:19 AM
I hope I never have to go camping with a naive no-it-all like you. We'd probably go into the woods together and I'd get stuck carrying everything back out again.......alone