LINO LAKES, Minn. (WCCO) – A dog was captured on video camera warding off a young black bear in his family’s front lawn in Minnesota.
“I was in the backyard watering the grass and plants,” Gevashia Sibell said. “That’s when I saw the black bear, and Max was like five feet away from it, and I was so scared.”
Sibell experienced her dog Max warding off a 3-foot-tall bear.
“Oh my gosh, my heart just like sunk. I was like, Max was going to get hurt,” Sibell said. “I don’t know what to do. Should I call the cops or call my husband? I was just so scared.”
Eventually, Max frightened the bear, and it scampered off into the woods.
“My first time ever seeing a cub or a bear, yeah,” Sibell said.
Sibell and her other half have actually had Max, a border collie mix, for 4 years.
“I love Max so much. We’ve had him since he was a puppy, so if anything happened to him, I would just, I don’t know what I would do without him,” Sibell said.
He’s been understood to notify the couple to things like shipments however never ever this.
“He’s definitely a guard dog,” Sibell said.
Sibell said she’ll let Max play watchdog regularly when she goes outside, simply in case there’s another interaction with any other wildlife.
“I was just glad that Max was there with me to alert me when I was outside with him,” she said.
Experts said if you come across a bear, do not run. Instead, you ought to gradually pull back, attempt to appear non-threatening or terrify the bear off with shouts and sounds.
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