https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-...0protect%20its%20cub.

A man was mauled by a black bear while walking his dog in a wooded area, marking the second attack in Anchorage, Alaska, in one week, according to local police.

Officials responded to a call about a bear attack at approximately 9:10 a.m. on Saturday at the Barbara Falls Trailhead, Anchorage Police Department said in a statement sent to ABC News.

Another person on the trail -- who did not see the attack -- found the victim, according to officials. He sustained injuries to his arm, they noted.

The victim, who deployed bear spray, sustained injuries to his arm, according to the Anchorage Police Department

This protective attack occurred on a trail in Eagle River 20 minutes from Anchorage, though ER is technically part of the Municipality of Anchorage.

Our salmon return this year is off the charts. I would not hike anywhere near a river like Campbell Creek, right behind my house, at present.

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This protective attack

How do you what the bear was thinking.

what was the bear in danger from.

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Originally posted by p dog shooter:

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This protective attack

How do you what the bear was thinking.

what was the bear in danger from.

Proximity

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The man was walking his dog along the trail when a " black bear and her cub came out of the wooded area," according to police.

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Proximity

Also makes the bear dangerous to the man and dog.

Proven by the fact that the bear attacked the man not vice versa.

The bear proved it was more dangerous to the man by attacking him.

The bear could have easily left and no harm would have came to it.

If one believes that a bear is justified in attacking a man because he is close.

Then a man is just as justified, in protecting himself from a bear that is close.

Looking at the recent AR National Park homicides, and the black bear killing of a cabin owner near Prescott, AZ two years ago: it is a toss up; as to dangerous psychotic humans or irritated bears.

If bear spray is only a maybe, and ill-advised if the wind and bear are coming from the same direction:
Sam Colt may have had the right answer a century ago, as did Browning and Oliver Winchester.

The 28-year-old schoolteacher suspected of fatally stabbing a married couple in an Arkansas state park

Bear attacks human.

For thousands of year of human history.

Humans have know that each other and wild animals are dangerous to themselves.

Weapons were/have been developed to protect ones self from harm.

The new pagans in the last 50 years or so have pushed the idea that animals are more sacred and valuable then humans.

That it is ok to sacrificed the occasional human to the animals so the animals can prosper.

Thus spray was developed to protect the animals from injury.
It is far more important that an animal lives to see another day then a human.

The people promoting spray push, see the animal wasn't harmed.

Bear spray, a non-lethal tool for deterring bears, was developed in the mid-1980s by Carrie Hunt and Bill Pounds,

Non Lethal for the bear.

I believe there have been 7 people who have died from bears while trying to defend themselves from bears with spray.

https://www.ammoland.com/2023/...rvive-a-bear-attack/


Spray is good for bears bad for people.

When it comes to defending ones self from attack firearms have proven themselves over hundreds of years to be superior to other weapons.

Spray on the other hand has had mixed results in the short 40 years or so it has been around.

Chose for yourself.

Are you are more concerned about saving the bears life or your own.

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Originally posted by Frostbit:

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Originally posted by p dog shooter:

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This protective attack

How do you what the bear was thinking.

what was the bear in danger from.

Proximity


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The man was walking his dog along the trail when a " black bear and her cub came out of the wooded area," according to police.

Dogs and bears are a recipe for trouble.

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Dogs and bears are a recipe for trouble.

Where bears are hunted with dogs the bears tend to run from the dogs.

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Originally posted by p dog shooter:

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Dogs and bears are a recipe for trouble.

Where bears are hunted with dogs the bears tend to run from the dogs.

A Grizz won't take no shit from a yappy dog.

Grizzly's have been successfully hunted dogs for a long time.

One of the early successful grizzly hound man was Montague Stevens of New Mexico in the late 1800's.

Even our own chilcotin hillbilly offered a grizzly offered a grizzly hound out. Just before the ban.

In Sweden they still use one or two dogs to hunt brown bears/grizzly works well.

There are several you tubes out there showing grizzly/brown bears being harassed by dogs. Protecting live stock ect.

So I stand by my statement where bears are hunted by dogs they tend to respect and run from dogs.

Bears have to be taught to fear humans.

Nothing like a bear story to get the og hunter going!

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Originally posted by p dog shooter:
Grizzly's have been successfully hunted dogs for a long time.

One of the early successful grizzly hound man was Montague Stevens of New Mexico in the late 1800's.

Even our own chilcotin hillbilly offered a grizzly offered a grizzly hound out. Just before the ban.

In Sweden they still use one or two dogs to hunt brown bears/grizzly works well.

There are several you tubes out there showing grizzly/brown bears being harassed by dogs. Protecting live stock ect.

So I stand by my statement where bears are hunted by dogs they tend to respect and run from dogs.

Bears have to be taught to fear humans.

So how are bears taught to fear humans.

By hunting them

Shoot the most aggressive bears off the milder one breed and learn to stay away from humans.