A woman in northeastern Washington had been walking her dogs when she was attacked by a female black bear.
According to CbcNews, on September 1, Lynn O’Connor, 63, had been hiking with her three dogs on private property located near Mink Creek Road in Ferry County when her dogs took off chasing two animals. At first O’Connor thought the dogs had taken chase after two cows, but unexpectedly it had been two black bears; an angry female bear charged at the woman who sustained non-life-threatening injuries, and needed 18 staples in her head to seal the injury.
Her first thought was to punch, and that’s exactly what she did; she figured she got three good punches in explaining;
she was coming at me swiping and huffing, and she had her shoulders really big and her head kind of low to the ground.
As the bear closed in on the woman, she dropped to the ground and rolled into a ball. The bear scratched at her, but it had been the three dogs – Sunshine, an Aussie, Kodak, a Newfoundland Pyrenees and Griff, a golden poodle blend who chased the bear away.
The entire encounter only lasted a few seconds.
According to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife’s news release, dated September 2, authorities admitted they killed the wrong bear.
Wildlife officers searched for the bear and found the 120-pound animal in the area where the woman was attacked and killed the bear. It was then the officers realized they killed the male bear instead; not the female bear they were looking for. The officers were unable to locate the female bear, and the landowner told the officers to leave.
The black bear meat was donated to the U.S. Air Force.
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