June 14, 2004
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Here’s an excerpt from the latest bear story in the Anchorage Daily News:
Sometime around 2 a.m., a mother moose
and calf walked onto Turner’s property. Then the hungry grizzly showed
up with her two cubs and everything got crazy.
“She gets in between the cow and the calf,” Wilkinson said. “The calf
runs up right next to this man’s house. And the bear runs up and kills
the calf right next to this guy’s porch.”Turner’s dog, a black Labrador mix, was outside and barking furiously.
Turner came out of the house and tried to scare the bear off but the
sow immediately charged him, Wilkinson said.
Turner, 31, darted for the house and tried to get his dog to follow but
it wouldn’t come, Wilkinson said.
“Then the grizzly starts chasing the dog,” the troopers spokesman
continued. “The mother moose comes over to see how the calf is doing.
The calf is dead. Then the grizzly starts chasing the cow, and the dog
starts chasing the grizzly. And the cubs are chewing on the calf while
Mom is chasing the moose.”Turner ended the melee moments later when he returned with a .300
Winchester Magnum and shot and killed the grizzly. He also chased the
cubs up a tree, about 40 yards from his house.
Then Turner heard gunshots — his neighbor’s, fired to scare off the
black bears.The story continues:
Anchorage Daily News | Zoo fills up with bears as Willow shooting makes 2 more orphans
