we see them all time if they usually go
the other direction with the sound Cubs
it’s a whole different category and when
she saw me she just basically said
you’re 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
sow with two little cubs within two and
a half seconds she was on me I swung at
it with shovel and hit her but it didn’t
dissuade her and she reached up 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 feet she just worked me over
for seemed like long enough but it was
probably like twenty or thirty 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 because 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 in to me again but I was really
prepared that time and that time she
just kind of bit my scalp and tried to
claw through my back and then and 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 two weeks I was
really disappointed that I had set this
up you know because it was totally on me
I should have read the signs I should
have you know instead of just rushing
into it really wasn’t the Bears fault he
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 it’s not going to
go away you got to take it more
seriously
the other direction with the sound Cubs
it’s a whole different category and when
she saw me she just basically said
you’re 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
sow with two little cubs within two and
a half seconds she was on me I swung at
it with shovel and hit her but it didn’t
dissuade her and she reached up 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 feet she just worked me over
for seemed like long enough but it was
probably like twenty or thirty 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 because 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 in to me again but I was really
prepared that time and that time she
just kind of bit my scalp and tried to
claw through my back and then and 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 two weeks I was
really disappointed that I had set this
up you know because it was totally on me
I should have read the signs I should
have you know instead of just rushing
into it really wasn’t the Bears fault he
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 it’s not going to
go away you got to take it more
seriously
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