I took my dog out for a hunt tonight in our usual location. She is use to hunting alone and typically does a fine job at it but for some reason she refused to get out of my sight. Right before we crossed the creek it looked like she was winding something. All of the sudden she began to look all around in a frantic motion. She immediately turned around and made a dash back to the truck abandoning me. Does anyone have any idea what could have startled her?


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Are some dogs afraid of bears? I have noticed that bears frequent the area.


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I would say it was a Bear!!!! All Bear hunters know that some Dogs are scared of Bear.

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more than likely a bear....... most dogs when they cross bear track they will tuck their tail and get the heck out of there......

Thanks for the response guys


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I had a dog tuck tail and run over a fresh Mountian lion track. But I agree with them saying bear is very likely.

It was a SQUATCH!!!!!! Hahaha just kidding. I was watching them clowns on that finding Bigfoot show and they had me rolling especially that one super squirrely fella with the long hair and wears
a hat and it looks like a one of them Halloween redneck costume parts. But on a similar note not too long ago my self, my brother, and two of my friends were out hunting and just shot a fairly good sized coon out of the tree and during the process of skinning it the dogs looked out away from us and started growling and barking. We shined our lights several times in different directions and couldn't see anything. obviously the dogs knew something was out there that we couldn't see. I am reckoning it was prolly coyotes. Round here they have a habit of coming in to trees after we leave and getting their chow on. But in your case it could of been coyotes, bear, or even a Squatch ( I ain't saying there is no way they don't exist cause with my luck I will run into one the next time I am out hunting and get my @$$ beat ). Dogs are like people though and get spooked sometimes it happens to every one.

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i was huntin out in the country probly 10 mile outside of applegrove west virginia this kill season and i had my 5 year old english male and 2 14 month old pups and they were runnin a track that they had heated up to the point they was almost treeing on the track and i followed them to a cave and all 3 of the dogs didnt hesitate to go into the gave and i had just started in there when my 5 year old male came running out all tore to heck and back and so i shined my light back in the cave there was a big black bear and my pups became his dinner

wow thats a sad story daniel cain did ur male make it ok? i couldnt watch that happen

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yea he is fine now it was one of the hardest things i have ever had to see in my life. i can honestly say ill never hunt down there again. im just glad that the he is back to normal. over the past 5 years he has really grew on me

I know how you feel buddy I have 3 redbones two of them are 3 and a 1 yr old pup, and they are my babys next to my 4 boys of course, but if I was to watch or have that happen to my dogs I,m not sure what I would do. all 3 of my dogs are house dogs so it would be like losing a family member.

if y'all can shoot bear at night i think that would have been a good time to fill a tag. If you had a gun with you that would have done the job that is. sorry for your loss, its always hard to loose a dog. i have personally never seen dogs get spooked by a bear, that bein said though we run bear and all our dogs except my new pup have been on them so its hard to say what a dog would do if they have never ran one.

There's a black bear hitting on one of our coon feeders, and it seems to never bother our dogs any.

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