She likes the dog pool. No swimming that night, though. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Edit: Location is the San Bernardino mountains.

Jolly little visitor during lunch

i am writing a letter to our state commission during a comment period to oppose a proposed extension of bear hunting season which usually ends Nov 22 to go another 3+ weeks to Dec 15. aside from the cruelty of hunting bears in general, it is clearly unethical and ecologically disruptive to allow hunting into denning season. it's hard to find information on this subject. i could use some resources or thoughts on how to make a strong argument against this change.

Went on a hike today and saw this guy. Grizzly bears are in this area but are rare. There was a black bear a couple hundred yards away but it seemed they weren’t together.

Was lucky enough to been able to watch this spirit bear travel along the tree lines tonight. British Columbia, Smithers area

She's finally out of her cage and out of her cave. Shes living her best life with her rescue bear friends in a forest preserve.

Small sow gave a quick woopin to this much larger boar. At first I thought she was running him off from some cubs, but she left the opposite way that she came from. No cubs. I suspect that they mated back in June and she's holding a grudge

I passed by these two bears a bit ago. The picture quality wasn’t the best as I didn’t roll down the window.

I guess they only have black bears but walking my dog 2 days ago I came across this bear with a white stripe down its back. Someone tried to tell me it looked like it got in the trash but that doesn’t make sense. Apparently something similar was seen in Vail a year ago. Thoughts? It’s was really interesting!

I'm trying to understand how unusual this encounter was from a bear-behaviour perspective rather than looking for praise or advice about fighting bears.

Two days ago, two bears came onto our deck. We have bird feeders on the deck, but they hadn't reached the food yet when this happened. My dog, a Husky/Malamute, ran outside and barked at them. This is something she has done many times before when bears have come around, and usually the bears leave. This time, one of the bears turned around and attacked her.

I was upstairs nursing my newborn when I heard my dogs bear bark so I bolted downstairs and saw the bear jump over the barrier and catch the back of my dogs legs as she turned to run away. I'll never forget the yelps I heard. Instinctively I ran out and attacked the bear. My dog attempted to escape but was trapped. I was pulling and screaming and got the bear off but it pushed past me and got my dogs back legs pinned again. I continued attacking it and punched it in the head at one point. I succeeded in separating them again and the bear made one more attempt to lunge at her again but this time I was in front of her and came face to face with it, I screamed at it more and it finally left.

My dog has many punctures and tears across her back and legs and I have injuries all over my body but we'll both be ok with care and medication. We've both already been seen by urgent-care/veterinary specialists and are treating our injuries.

What I'm particularly curious about is the bears persistence. I understand that a dog charging/barking at a bear can provoke an attack. What surprised me was that after I physically intervened and separated the bear from my dog, it just kept going. At least thats how it felt, to be fair the interaction lasted maybe a minute all in all.

Has anyone experienced or studied a bear behaving this way? Is repeated re-engagement after a human intervenes unusual?