One, two and eventually a third shot, then silence

As we sat down to dinner we heard a shot way down in the village, Annie, our dog, came trembling to the back door and I let her in and she fled to her hiding place in the back bedroom.
Shortly after we heard another shot, and then about fifteen minutes later a third. There [...]

Bear invasion

I was sitting in front of my computer about half an hour ago when I heard a loud clanking sound. On investigation I find a large sow bear prowling around just by the deck, and then about 15ft behind her two good size cubs. She came around the front of the house and then [...]

B.C. woman fends off backyard bear attack on granddaughter

A grandmother is being hailed as a hero for rescuing her four-year-old granddaughter from a backyard bear attack in B.C.’s West Kootenay region that left the two with little more than scratches.
Nelson-area resident Jane Tillotson was spending a quiet day in her garden with her two visiting granddaughters, aged four and six, when she heard [...]

Wandering Polar Bear heads south again

There’s one polar bear that just can’t seem to get enough of the summer heat. For the second time in a month, the large female bear has frustrated wildlife officials by wandering south of her usual habitat on the Arctic Ocean.
People living along the Mackenzie River thought they had seen the last of the lost [...]

Good reason to be wary of bears

Another attack by wildlife this year. We have heard of moose attacking people, bears and cougars. We are invading their territory, what do we expect really. The moose had a very hard winter as the snow was so deep they could not escape predators easily and it was hard going through the snow. We had [...]