we see them all the time but they
usually go the other
direction with the S Cubs it's a whole
different category and when she saw me
she just basically said you're
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next I was irrigating my Ranch and I
have been doing this at that particular
time for 50
years every morning I get up early and
take off with my shovel my
dog and I normally carry bear spray when
I go hiking out in the Hills which I do
a lot but I was
irrigating well June 20th 2013 and as I
was doing that I heard my dog in a
terrible fight just literally screaming
and without thinking I rushed around the
corner 25 yards away was a s with two
little cubs within two and a half second
she was on
me I swung at her with a shovel and hit
her but it didn't dissuade her and she
reached up and and basically removed the
center of my face then we went down on
the ground and she grabbed my left knee
and drugged me about 20 ft she just uh
worked me over for seemed like long
enough but it was probably like 20 or 30
seconds and then she took
off I was trying to get my cell phone to
work and as I was doing that I could
hear her coming back cuz she had
inadvertently charged off the wrong way
and left her Cubs back behind me so she
came tearing down the hill again I could
hear her huffing and puffing and she
tied into to me again but I was really
prepared that time and that time she
just just kind of bit my scalp and tried
to claw through my back and then uh then
she
left I laid there for a few more seconds
and then I decided to better change
locations so I got up and walked
home we met the ambulance and then that
was it I didn't remember anything else
till I woke up in Denver I was in Denver
in intensive care for 2
weeks I was really disappointed that uh
I had uh set this up you know because it
was totally on me I I should have read
the signs I should have you know instead
of just rushing into it really wasn't
the Bear's fault she wasn't doing
anything but what any good mother would
do so it's in Grizzly habitat there's no
question about it and I've known that
for
years it's like blizzards and Weeds now
predators are a fact that's not going to
go away you you got to take it more
seriously
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