blue heelers. we have 2 they are great with kids and chickens. They are also fierce with anything that comes on there property that doesn't belong there. mine have killed several coons and are pretty hard on ground hog populations as well. They even alerted me to a fox one morning that was...
sorry about your loss. we had a similar problem one time and the game commission brought there trap caught the bear and released it about 20 miles away. Three weeks later it was back. This time there was a .270 rifle waiting and not a trap. we haven't had any more problems since we shot that...