Home Defense - You better be loaded for bear!

[ericire12]

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/20191447/detail.html

BOULDER, Colo. -- A Boulder County family that has watched bears roam through their neighborhood for the last ten to 15 years got an up close and personal visit from a bruin early Monday morning.

The family told Boulder County deputies they were awakened when Sienna, the family's Russell Terrier-Shepherd mix, started barking. The family saw that a bear had entered their home after ripping off the screen door and was rummaging through the pantry.

Sienna bolted in front of the bear when the bear spotted the family.

"She made herself sound very fierce and very big, even though she's just a little 30-pound dog," said Brenda, who asked that her family’s last name not be used.

"When I heard my mom say there's a bear in the house, it was a scary thing," added Reed, Brenda's son.

Brenda's husband, Paul, said he was trying to give the bear room to maneuver out the house.

"As I was trying to do that, the bear charged at me. I had the shotgun and I shot it and it kept charging," Paul said.

He shot the bear three times with a shotgun, wounding it. That third shot stunned the bear and allowed the family to run out of the house and to their car.

When deputies arrived, they found the bear still inside the home, wounded and bleeding. They too experienced the bear’s aggressiveness.

"They tried to create a way so it could get outside, so they could put it down outside, but then it started charging at the officers," said Commander Rick Brough of the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office.

Deputies fired a handgun at the bear but one of the bullets bounced off its head and struck a window. Deputies finally killed it with a rifle.

"I didn't really see it," said Brittany, Brenda and Paul's daughter. "I heard it, but I didn't really want to see it."

The bear was a 2-year-old male that weighed 120 pounds. The Division of Wildlife believes that it was recently kicked out of the den and was trying to establish its own territory.

The family told deputies that the bear had been on their property several times recently. On Tuesday, the bear had tried to get through a door and had torn the screen off. On Thursday the bear returned and broke into one of their vehicles. Paul was confident it was the same bear because of a wound on its front left paw.

"I don't know exactly how he forced the door open but it doesn't close right any more," Paul said.

This was the fourth time in five days a bear has broken into a Boulder County home in search of food.

"We know there are several bears in the area," said Kristin Cannon, of the DOW. "We don't know if all the house break-ins are due to one bear or multiple bears."

Cannon said this year the bears have plenty of food because of all the wet weather, so she is unsure why they are having these problems.

[fightingquaker13]

Totally off topic, but....how do you get a German Shepard, Jack Russel cross? Are there ladders involved? I know they're determined little bastards, but still?
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[shooter32]

Totally off topic, but....how do you get a German Shepard, Jack Russel cross? Are there ladders involved? I know they're determined little bastards, but still?
FQ13

Where there's a will there's a way. 


The shepard wasn't German 

[ericire12]

Totally off topic, but....how do you get a German Shepard, Jack Russel cross? Are there ladders involved? I know they're determined little bastards, but still?
FQ13

Can we at least wait until page two before we drift the thread!

[fightingquaker13]

Can we at least wait until page two before we drift the thread!

Silly rabbit.....
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[Hazcat]

Deputies fired a handgun at the bear but one of the bullets bounced off its head and struck a window. Deputies finally killed it with a rifle.

.40 short and weak?

[shooter32]

From the Colorado Division of Wildlife

Only People Can Prevent Problems with Bears
 

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Black bears are curious, smart and very adaptable. They’re not fussy and will eat just about anything with calories. Bears want to get the most energy they can with the least amount of effort. Every bear’s goal is to get fat enough to live through the winter. Bear Calorie Counter 
Bird seed (7 lbs) = 12, 180 calories 
Dog Food (25 lbs) = 42,425 calories 
Peanut Butter (28 oz) = 4,750 calories 
Shortening (3 lbs) = 12,430 calories 
Berries (1 lb) = 2,000 calories 
Most conflicts between people and bears can be traced to easy-to-get-at human food, garbage, pet food, bird seed or other attractants. When people allow bears to find food, a bear’s natural drive to eat can overcome its wariness of humans.

Bears that get too comfortable around people can destroy property or even become a threat to human safety. Habituated bears must often be destroyed. Please don’t let bears die needlessly. Do your part to bear-proof your home and property, and help keep bears alive and wild.

[fightingquaker13]

.40 short and weak?

Or cop speak for I freaked out, had an ND, and the window broke so it must have bounced off Yogi's head. You choose.
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[Hazcat]

Or cop speak for I freaked out, had an ND, and the window broke so it must have bounced off Yogi's head. You choose.
FQ13

Hadn't thought of that angle but it has a ring to it. 

[Ichiban]

Where there's a willie there's a way.

Fixed it for you.