Bear in the house? Meh. Get a Pomeranian.

[oldbrownhat]

Home security video captured a feisty little Pomeranian fearlessly chasing a black bear out of a Vancouver home after it ate the dog's food. Link here.

My gf saw it on a FB post and one oerson commented:

 

[turnerriver]

That looks like a can of bear spray on the window sill, superfluous with the Beast around.
Regards,

 

['79 Magnum GT]

I love the way that little guy flew off that porch like he was Krypto!

Rick

 

[oldbrownhat]

That looks like a can of bear spray on the window sill, superfluous with the Beast around.
Regards,

And a lot less smell to clean up. Using bear spray in the house would probably be a lot worse than just letting Yogi (hopefully) find its way out.

I remember a video from some years ago where a bear sat down at the piano.

 

[CajunBass]

My mother had a Pom. If it got to yapping at me, I'd leave too.

 

[LVSteve]

So let's see if I have this right. You live in bear country, and you leave your back door open or unlocked so the bear only has to lean on the handle to open it.

Somewhere, Darwin is laughing fit to bust a rib.

10/10 to Scout, but minus several million for his dumb owners.

 

[Tom S.]

My mother had a Pom. If it got to yapping at me, I'd leave too.

X2

 

[oldbrownhat]

So let's see if I have this right. You live in bear country, and you leave your back door open or unlocked so the bear only has to lean on the handle to open it.

Somewhere, Darwin is laughing fit to bust a rib.

10/10 to Scout, but minus several million for his dumb owners.

Ya gotta wonder. Unless they hadn't had any bear problems in that area before. But I bet she's keeping the door closed now.
A friend in Vanc. said he saw it on the evening news and it was in West Vancouver, a pretty upscale part of the city. Probably up on the mountain near the tree line... where you'd expect to have bears.

 

['79 Magnum GT]

My knowledge of black bear is impressively lacking. That bear looks like a young one to me. Am I amiss in that statement?

Rick

 

[oldbrownhat]

My knowledge of black bear is impressively lacking. That bear looks like a young one to me. Am I amiss in that statement?

Rick

Young-ish, maybe 2 y.o. But a little smaller than the one that wandered nonchalantly past me and my cat back in June

 

[Model19man]

I don't think many bears would be scared of my Pom.

 

['79 Magnum GT]

Young-ish, maybe 2 y.o. But a little smaller than the one that wandered nonchalantly past me and my cat back in June
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yours was undoubtedly keeping a low profile and hoping you nor your cat noticed him.

Rick

 

[jdlii]

Never underestimate a WOOF, WOOF!

 

[oldbrownhat]

Never underestimate a WOOF, WOOF!

Or in this case, a hyper-energized yaplet.

 

[SMSgt]

If you skin them out, Poms make good dust mops.

 

[oldbrownhat]

yours was undoubtedly keeping a low profile and hoping you nor your cat noticed him.

Rick

Riiiight.... "I'm 200 lbs. and black, in the open, on freshly-cut grass. I hope I am invisible."
Only about 30' away and shuffled by as if we weren't there.

 

[MP-5]

 

['79 Magnum GT]

Riiiight.... "I'm 200 lbs. and black, in the open, on freshly-cut grass. I hope I am invisible."
Only about 30' away and shuffled by as if we weren't there.

Ahh! stealth bear!!!

Rick

 

[M1A4ME]

Dad used to call small dogs "bear dogs." When I asked why he called a tiny dog a bear dog his reply was, "Get 20 or 30 of them after a bear and they'd drive the bear crazy."

 

[bullmack]

We had an off-grid place in interior British Columbia for 20 years that we sold it in 2022. When we built it all of the exterior doors were in-swing with lever door handles. We very quickly realized the ease with which a bear could open a door and changed the outside of the mechanism to knobs.