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Exactly.
When we go camping in the national forest --- it's not a campground where other people are, and we let Dusti off leash. She stays prettymuch within eyesight at all times and her recall is good. She just likes to sniff everything. It IS possible that either a bear might come up, or she might come upon one and bark as she fans the area. Granted when we're out there we're probably hunting, so we have guns, but still I don't think I should deserve to fight off a bear just because I was camping with my dog and accidentally got the wrong way of a strong animal. It'd just be one of those freaky, unfortunate things. Not really anybody's fault.
I also wouldn't feel that the bear deserved to get shot any more than a raccoon that broke into my coop does - it's just what animals do, but we gotta protect our family.
Exactly.
When we go camping in the national forest --- it's not a campground where other people are, and we let Dusti off leash. She stays prettymuch within eyesight at all times and her recall is good. She just likes to sniff everything. It IS possible that either a bear might come up, or she might come upon one and bark as she fans the area. Granted when we're out there we're probably hunting, so we have guns, but still I don't think I should deserve to fight off a bear just because I was camping with my dog and accidentally got the wrong way of a strong animal. It'd just be one of those freaky, unfortunate things. Not really anybody's fault.
I also wouldn't feel that the bear deserved to get shot any more than a raccoon that broke into my coop does - it's just what animals do, but we gotta protect our family.
