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Originally Posted by whitetail Junkie
The Dog might alert you,but dog or not,if a bear has made his decision to attack,he will attack.The Toughest dog in the world wont save you.
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It has nothing to do with the dog being tough. The only time my dog is tied up is at night.....and it's within a few metres of the tent. It will alert me if there is a bear present far sooner than it coming through my tent. I have only had two trips into the McKenzie Mts. in the last 8yrs where we did not have a grizz show up in camp and we saw two on one of these trips.
SH mentioned that his dog will not bark if it sees a bear....Mine will. We got her already exposed and trained out of Alaska. When I'm awake she will alert me by "hoofing"....very similar to a bear. If I am sleeping she will wake me with a bark that would wake the dead......it is hair raising. She goes freakin' nutz.
A bear is trying to sneak or "stalk" its way into camp. It in no way wants its presence announced. I have never had any issues or been put at what I would consider a risk in dealing with any of the encounters I've had with bears due solely to the early detection by my dog.
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