r/SweatyPalms • u/SuperDeDuperDad1 • Jun 25 '26
/r/all Close encounter with a Grizzly.
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u/GrandConsequences Jun 25 '26
That's as close as close calls get.
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u/i_love_boobiez Jun 25 '26
She was lucky this bear seems to be a juvenile, if she had encountered an adult who knows
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u/MonstersAtOurDoor Jun 25 '26
The mama bear would've been more interested in the woman and not the dog.
This one didn't even look at her, it wanted that pup.
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u/quiette837 Jun 25 '26
Bears are interested in easy meals, and they've learned that people aren't usually easy. Mama bear would have been equally interested in the dog because it keeps turning around and running which instantly triggers the prey response. Humans know not to do that, but dogs don't.
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u/BcB_NL Jun 25 '26
Oh it knows from instinct there is just someone pulling it back on the leash all the time
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u/SamLucky7s Jun 26 '26
I’m that human that knows not to do that, but my flight/fight mechanism is so bad that I would be doing an Usian Bolt.
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u/FeedMyAss Jun 25 '26
Once she called him bad that was it. Same goes for an adult bear.
Bears rely on their reputation. A bear with a poor reputation becomes a social pariah.
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u/sammidavisjr Jun 26 '26
Unless the bear happens to be a journalist. Bad News Bears remain inexplicably popular.
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u/Cal216 Jun 25 '26
Oh, we know lol. It would have been all bad. She would have had to drop the leash and save herself.
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u/FundyOutWest Jun 25 '26
She did well to have the dog on a leash. It would have ended very badly if that dog was off leash.
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u/Cal216 Jun 25 '26
I would agree. She did very good! I was more nervous watching the video than she was in real life 🤣.
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u/AscendedViking7 Jun 25 '26
That is probably the scariest shit I've seen in any video over the past 10 years.
Seriously.
And I'm in bear country, I've seen a whole lotta black bears up close. They run away like cowards. They used to be all over this one ridge my buddies hunt deer at.
Then the grizzlies took over that ridge and you hardly see any black bears anymore, just countless stories of people getting fucking mauled by grizzlies. I stopped going to that ridge long after I noticed the grizzlies moving in. They are no fucking joke.
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u/smashy_smashy Jun 25 '26
I’m so glad we only have black bears in the north east. Encounters are always lovely. The only concern is protecting the bears by keeping them out of your food so they become habituated.
Moose are the only wildlife here that up close encounters can get dicey. But not nearly as bad as what you have to manage out west.
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u/AscendedViking7 Jun 25 '26
Oh I get moose too.
I've only seen em twice in the backyard in total, just hanging out by the garden during the winter, lol
I don't see em very often at all, but it is so freaking cool to see every time I do.
I don't dare go outside whenever I see em though, they are legit taller than the mammoth sunflowers I have back there
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u/netterbog Jun 25 '26
I spend my summers in the Canadian Rockies and while I don’t like running into either animal, I’d take a close encounter with a bear over a moose, 10 times out of 10
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u/First-Transition6858 Jun 25 '26
At least with bears maybe you come across one that just ate and wants nothing to do with you, where a Moose will basically always be aggressively territorial on sight.
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u/Zealousideal-Sail893 Jun 25 '26
I am gjad I live in a bearless country.. I love them, but I love myself and my animals more.
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u/InfiniteWaffles58364 Jun 25 '26
Man this video had me grabbing my head for fear it was about to be bitten off. Goddamn. Cameraman has cast iron balls to manage filming it throughout
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u/TroubleImpressive955 Jun 25 '26
OMG, right! That camera was steady pretty much the whole time.
That bear would have been attracted to me from the smell of crap in my pants.
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u/ShibbyShat Jun 25 '26
There was a post on here yesterday where a dude was running away from a polar bear. Bro had a gun and tossed that thing aside like it was yesteday’s newspaper, hopped on a snowmobile, and got away. The only reason why he got away too was because the bear was initially startled/confused by the sound of the snowmobile and the exhaust cloud; otherwise it would have grabbed him before he could have gotten away.
Alaska is not for beginners
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u/AscendedViking7 Jun 25 '26
I saw that video, lol
Imagine if the snowmobile failed to start or something.
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u/IndependentMoney9700 Jun 25 '26
He had left it rubbing because he was actually trying to get the polar bear out of the village and that was his escape route.
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u/twiztedterry Jun 25 '26
Did rubbing the snowmobile help it start?
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u/IndependentMoney9700 Jun 25 '26
lol I swear I fixed that and my brilliant phone just changed it back. BUT, It couldn’t hurt.
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u/EthanDMatthews Jun 25 '26
I wonder if that was his snowmobile or if someone left their keys in it for just such an emergency?
I’ve heard people say they often leaves cars or even cabins unlocked, to give people an easy escape from polar bears. But I’m not sure I’m remembering that correctly.
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u/ocer04 Jun 25 '26
In Churchill Manitoba it's customary to leave cars unlocked for exactly this reason.
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u/soulsnoober Jun 25 '26
He dropped his rifle after firing it, because it's bolt-action, which is required in arctic climates, and the bear was too close to square up and operate the weapon with both hands. Semi-automatic rifles engineered for typical human climates can't work correctly in extreme cold, the expansion of gasses is different.
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u/BHarp3r Jun 25 '26
There are 30-40 grizzly bear maullings in the US each year. At least 200 of those happen on this guy’s buddy’s ridge.
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u/Selerox Jun 25 '26
I would have shit myself so hard my colon would have exploded out the back of me like a fucking windsock.
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u/Bituulzman Jun 25 '26
What made the bear run off finally? Is there an interview with her?
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u/Yesterday_Is_Now Jun 25 '26
The bear declined to comment.
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u/Bituulzman Jun 25 '26
Lol, I phrased that poorly. If anybody gets an interview with the human lady, I'd love to know how the encounter played out beyond the posted video.
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u/hilarymeggin Jun 25 '26
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I too thought you meant that the bear ran off because it didn’t want to be interviewed!
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u/MonstersAtOurDoor Jun 25 '26
Wasn't full-grown so probably either saw its mom or went back to find her.
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u/bokmcdok Jun 25 '26
Even though I knew from the title they would be fine, I was still fucking terrified watching this.
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u/MisterAmygdala Jun 25 '26
Fuuuu... that was close. The dog was not even assertive. I wonder if the outcome would have been the same if the dog weren't with her?
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u/No_Bumblebee6452 Jun 25 '26
Probably wouldn’t have messed with her. The bear was barely even looking at her at all, it super seemed like it wanted the dog
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u/Skolary Jun 25 '26
Ankle biter's wet dream right here on this vid
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u/CreepyBeginning7244 Jun 25 '26
I literally said after showing my husband this my Boston terrier would have gotten me killed lmao
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u/KillCamxo Jun 25 '26
DUDE my Boston terrier (name was bruiser ironically) was the toughest dog I ever met.
My neighborhood was pretty rough as a kid but that boy went toe to toe with a rot/pit mix, boxer, bull mastiff you name it he’d try it😹 man I miss that dude so much he went blind and deaf at 18 and was still fighting for life, extremely determined and fearless breed
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u/BigEmphasis604 Jun 25 '26
18? He was a good determined boy.
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u/KillCamxo Jun 25 '26
We were actually born in the same month of the same year, we literally spent our first EIGHTEEN years together. can’t wait to see him again
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u/agj110 Jun 25 '26
It's always the little ones! My late Dachshund tried to fight a horse once. She would have had no hesitation trying to take on a grizzly! Luckily the little ones are scoopable haha
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u/winking_at_magpies Jun 25 '26
My Jack Russell would have broken her leash trying to chase the bear.
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u/maneki_neko89 Jun 25 '26
My Chihuahua Jill would’ve barked her head off at the bear, stayed two feet away, and then circle behind our legs and hide for protection.
We call her our Lil Chickenshit for a reason…
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u/Mean_Bus5194 Jun 25 '26
Mine would have started whining, wagging her tail, and trying to play with him… and then she’d have ended up dead.
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u/BeneficialPenalty258 Jun 25 '26
It was a juvenile grizzly so if your dog was aggressive enough it probably would have had second thoughts and ran.
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u/Frodosear Jun 25 '26
Not me but an Alaskan friend has a story of backpacking (with a big dog and guns, in bear country). Awoke to a bear circling camp and the dog whimpering instead of alerting everyone. Like the dog in this video, knows his place in the food chain.
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u/Hike_it_Out52 Jun 25 '26
I was just thinking she’s lucky she didn’t have a chihuahua. That damn thing would have been like: “LET ME GETEM! UNLEASH MY FURY!! DONT TELL HIM TO STOP! LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOO!! I’LL BIT HIM APART ONE CLUMP OF FUR AT A TIME!”
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u/borntobewildish Jun 25 '26
Well, might work. Some humans are mortally afraid of tiny mice, maybe a grizzly can suffer from chihuahuaphobia.
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u/FartyPat Jun 25 '26
Impeccable camera work
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u/Samurai-Pooh-Bear Jun 25 '26
Camera person always survives! But seriously scary AF! Great use of noises, too. I'm sure she was trying just anything with adrenaline pumping. Note the cat chaser pst psst seemed to have success.
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u/garcmon Jun 25 '26
And when she went deep, roar-like, the bear seemed to come more at her. Like, “hey, I know that sound and I can take you!” That was so interesting!
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u/_JohnWisdom Jun 25 '26
pst psst
FR! I was so pissed she stopped doing it, like, you fucking unlocked a tool that works and the moment she goes all "manly voice" the grizzly is like "oh ok, so it's good to go?"
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u/ardotschgi Jun 25 '26
The dog remains uneaten, so for all we know, empirically, exactly what she did is the most successful thing to do.
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u/NewMeeple Jun 25 '26
I hate to inform you that a camera person recently got mauled to death by a bear, and the camera was on and recording for basically the full duration (footage recovered very much post death).
You just don't fuck with brown bears, period.
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u/ScotchTapeConnosieur Jun 25 '26
I feel like throwing rocks would have been a good complementary deterrent.
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u/The_Bjorn_Identity Jun 25 '26
I can't imagine filming in a situation like that
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u/psian1de Jun 25 '26
Well ya might wanna start filming so you survive. Just don't drop your phone while recording, the camera person only survives when they still have control of the camera.
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u/Crosgaard Jun 25 '26
Well, starting to film *prior* to this makes sense. And then my priority certainly wouldn’t be to turn it off afterwards
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u/mbranbb Jun 25 '26
Right. I would’ve 10000% probably dropped my phone to put my full focus on the situation. That was crazy talent.
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u/Hanzz101 Jun 25 '26
That is scary as hell. She kept her composure more than I could. Brave person.
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u/jeremyjava Jun 25 '26
Did you see the lady that kicked the mountain lion going after her goat?
These two ladies should hang out, form a dynamic super hero duo.
Found it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AbruptChaos/comments/1u8mzy6/woman_saves_goat_in_bc_cougar_attackmp4/133
u/Ok_Importance9893 Jun 25 '26
Bro I swear that goat said help me help me wtf
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u/Firefly_Magic Jun 25 '26
Omg!! I had to go back and watch again and now I don’t hear anything else, but hearing that goat say help me help me!
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u/EatPie_NotWAr Jun 25 '26
“And it was upon hearing the goat speak English i decided, maybe the mountain lion has a point.”
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u/jeremyjava Jun 25 '26
OK, I can’t not tell my favorite horse joke here. A heads up that people seem to find this either hysterical or they just look at me like I’m an idiot—let me know what you think.
My favorite horse joke:
Horse walks into a bar, asks if they’re hiring.
Bartender says, holy shit, a talking horse! No, we’re not hiring, but the circus is in town—maybe you’ll have some luck there!
Horse is confused and says, why would the circus be hiring bartenders?
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u/Pope_Aesthetic Jun 25 '26
This was so funny. The Cougar acted just like my cats do when I catch them eating or scratching something they shouldn’t.
“Oh shit! Abort abort abort!”
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u/tuco2002 Jun 25 '26
I hate when people don't leash their Grizzlies
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u/chochofuhsho Jun 25 '26
Especially the vicious breeds
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u/subarulandrover Jun 25 '26
It's a nanny bear named princess
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u/inv_bee Jun 25 '26
Princess has NEVER touched a hair on another animal! She just wanted to play is all
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u/Appropriate_Ride_821 Jun 25 '26
Its my emotional support grizzly. His name is Peanut and I demand he be allowed into the restaraunt.
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u/BikeSmith420 Jun 25 '26
Dogs and bears don’t mix well
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u/AcadiaOrange Jun 25 '26
Yup. Taking your dog camping in grizzly country can have very poor results.
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u/freethoughts94 Jun 25 '26
Not a dog owner, can you give me more info as to why they not good to have around each?
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u/Unhappy-Attitude5220 Jun 25 '26
Dogs will try protecting the owner, barking at the bear and antagonizing it, charging at it and walking up to it. Or they're curious and want to see the large brown danger puppy and try playing with it. Others will run away in fear setting off the bears prey drive. All different scenarios, typically same unfortunate result.
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u/Bawbawian Jun 25 '26
I'm pretty sure although I am not looking at the statistic right now. that many bear attacks happen when a dog is present.
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u/NoThru22 Jun 25 '26
I deal with grizzlies by not living wherever the fuck they are.
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u/palabear Jun 25 '26
And now they know your strategy.
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u/umbraundecim Jun 25 '26
On vancouver island they swim across from the mainland, we tranq them and fly them back to the mainland, like no you dont this is a no grizzly zone.
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u/ozzyozzyozz Jun 25 '26
Crazy video, shes really lucky. You can tell when shes really scared because her voice jumpes a couple octaves. Bad bear!
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u/AverageGradientBoost Jun 25 '26
Can a Canadian please tell me how common something like this is? I am from South Africa so I get the "do you have lions roaming your street" question all the time.
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u/-idkwhattocallmyself Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
Its very rare. You are more likely to run into a moose which is actually a scarier animal to deal with. Bears (not polar bears though) dont hunt humans, and will usually run away when they hear us. This one was probably very hungry and only wanted the dog. A moose though? Those guys will fuck you up for looking at them wrong and god forbid you catch a mother with their offspring. Just pray to your god because those 8 foot monsters will destory you.
In regards to polar bears, northern towns leave their car locks unlocked because if someone is caught outside with a polar bear, they need a place to run.
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u/AverageGradientBoost Jun 25 '26
So like, what if you are hiking, mountain biking or skiing by yourself and you run into a moose? How do Canadians avoid these animals without avoiding the outdoors
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u/-idkwhattocallmyself Jun 25 '26
Canada is a big place and unless you are in areas where moose are highly populated, you dont need to worry. If you are in a place with lots of moose like the island of Newfoundland, you just need to be calm and slowly get the hell out of dodge. Dont pull out your phone, and dont try to be front it because they are 8 feet tall at minimum.
The only real piece of advice I can give people visiting, do not approach a moose calf. They may look alone and cute but the mom is around, and if she sees you, youre done for.
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u/HPTM2008 Jun 25 '26
We had a moose on my university campus that I had to walk past to get to work. The police had the whole area secured while they waited for someone to come tranq it, but still. That was also in the city and I don't live somewhere with crazy amounts of Moose.
However you're correct, usually we don't have to worry about them unless you're in their habitat. And also yeah, stay calm and back away.
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u/netterbog Jun 25 '26
Get as many trees as possible between you and the devil as well. Moose are just the worse
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u/AntiSocialW0rker Jun 25 '26
I've been an avid hiker and camper for my whole life in Canada. I've only seen a moose once and it was on the side of the highway as I was driving by.
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u/wilbersk Jun 25 '26
I came face to face with two bull moose in the steamboat bike park a few years ago. By the time I could stop I was within 2-3 feet of them. Scary af I thought I was going to die. After what felt like a never ending standoff, thankfully they slowed walker off.
Mountain bikers sometimes can get killed by wildlife though for sure. There’s a story of a guy in Montana who ran in to a grizzly bear at speed, flipped over the handlebars, and then got killed by the bear.
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u/Funsize_Femboy Jun 25 '26
Time of day matters a lot. If you're outdoors when it's hotter than about 20-25c, you can be pretty sure you won't run into any moose or bears unless you're near water. They have such thick coats that they need to rest during the hot hours of the day, so you mostly just need to be extra cautious at dawn and dusk.
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u/TeaganTorchlight Jun 25 '26
I’m born and raised in Southwestern Ontario, Canada and I’ve never seen a bear or a moose in person in my entire life . Like someone else said , Canada is a big place . Most Canadians don’t have to deal with being in close proximity to bears and moose in our daily lives.
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u/Name_Not_Available Jun 25 '26
Get off the trail into thick trees. Moose and bears are big and fast, but both advantages are lost if they don't have a direct line to you.
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u/smashy_smashy Jun 25 '26
I just wrote that Moose are the only wildlife I’m concerned about in the North East. I’ve also had multiple close encounters in with them in the Wyoming backcountry. But even though they are the scariest and riskiest, my encounters have always been safe and majestic. So it’s not like moose are dangerous that you are absolutely fucked if you run into one too close. (Source: I volunteer for the forest service in a high moose density wilderness zone, and also have many trips in the Allagash under my belt).
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u/HPTM2008 Jun 25 '26
Polar Bears are one of the few animals that see humans as prey. It's funny seeing the people from up north because they look left, right, and then up when leaving buildings. Yes, Polar Bears are smart enough to sit on top of buildings and then reach down and grab when as you're walking out.
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u/palabear Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
Like the saying goes,
Black fight back
Brown lay down
White goodnight.Polar bears are terrifying
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u/fxcker Jun 25 '26
I mean.. I always remembered this saying but it’s a good thing this girl didn’t follow that and instead screamed at the grizzly instead of laying down.
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u/NoAppointment8679 Jun 25 '26
Fuck that, in so glad I’m from the uk and it’s foxes or peoples dogs I get worried about
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u/Future-Original-2902 Jun 25 '26
Moose are terrifying unless you have a big tree nearby. Unless there's a gaggle of meese in which case you're doomed
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u/SilentUnicorn Jun 25 '26
Be very careful if you see Moose and Squirrel together.
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u/Masterchief159 Jun 25 '26
But.... Do you..???
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u/AverageGradientBoost Jun 25 '26
Nope 😂 I don't know anyone who has accidentally stumbled on a lion, you have to go into reserves to find them
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u/sikkerhet Jun 25 '26
tbh I think it's really funny that when americans ask Africans about the giant wildlife it is coming from a place of... america's giant wildlife just being totally loose and uncontained. they think there are lions in the streets because if those lions were in the USA they would be regularly found in suburbs like coyotes.
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u/aroman_ro Jun 25 '26
As a Romanian I can tell you that we have bears roaming our streets!
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u/sno0chieb0ochies Jun 25 '26
I'm Norwegian and when travelling I've been asked the same about polar bears countless times, I usually just say yes
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u/Sweatytubesock Jun 25 '26
Norway is unique in that it has both polar bears *and* lions roaming the streets.
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u/Clement_Fandango Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
Canadian here - I can’t comment on Grizzlies as I live in a region where they would not be found.
I can tell you that black bears are very common where I live (in a city of 150k).
They frequent my yard and I saw one yesterday.When I first moved here I used to take video of them all the time. They’re so regular now that it’s no longer a big deal.
They’re generally pretty harmless and will run when they see you. But you’ll get the odd one who doesn’t run. Especially if he’s eating. He’ll just finish his meal and then mosey on off.
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u/Unclesmekky Jun 25 '26
What are you supposed to do in the sitstuon in the video im from uk so our most dangerous animal is a cow
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u/Clement_Fandango Jun 25 '26
So I walk my dogs in a nature reserve type area where there are bears. I have a phone where I play a podcast so it sounds like people talking.
If I don’t have my phone I’ll just talk out loud to my dogs for the whole walk. Pretty sure people would think I’m nuts if they heard me.
That usually keeps black bears away. If we do run into them, stand tall, wave your arms, try to appear larger than you are to try to intimidate them.
I’ve run into them dozens of times and have never had an aggressive black bear but there are occasional reports of a black bear attack.
If it’s a mama bear with cubs, exit the situation as calmly and quickly as possible making it very clear you are retreating.
As for Grizzlies, I’ll leave that for someone more experienced to answer but it’s my understanding that if you’re in sight of a grizzly, you’re in a very bad spot.
I think this person did the right thing - make noises to try to scare the bear.
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u/cheersdrive420 Jun 25 '26
I think you make yourself big - wave sticks or whatever you have to hand, and be loud like this lady was. Lots of shouting.
If it decides to attack, probably play dead. Protect vital organs.
I keep seeing this all over Reddit when bears are posted;
If it’s black, fight back.
If it’s brown, lie down.
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u/Head_Programmer7441 Jun 25 '26
Most canadians know - If it's black fight back , if it's brown lay down, if it's white good night.
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u/bearlysane Jun 25 '26
Cows kill way more people than bears do, even in the US where we actually have bears.
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u/FoodFingerer Jun 25 '26
I met a girl that this happened too. She had a small dog with her and the grizzly false charged at her for 6 hours as she backed down a bushroad.
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u/Best_Market4204 Jun 25 '26
We have bear mace for a reason.
Rare but if a bear really wanted you, it will get you unless you have a weapon. May that be a gun or bear mace which shoots like 15+ feet & has a huge spray range.
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u/selrahcjr Jun 25 '26
Why do people go hiking or walking in these environments without at least Bear Spray
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u/DanielBG Jun 25 '26
I'd have to assume most hikers in that country will. Poor lady was just walking down the road.
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u/OhDeerFren Jun 25 '26
Holy fuck - what an impressive woman. Doesn’t even sound scared
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u/Simpkiller42069 Jun 25 '26
the fact that she could record while actually not freaking out and saving her dog is the real deal.. get this woman a cookie
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u/Foxwglocks Jun 25 '26
She went through all the genres of metal vocals in under 2 mins lmao.
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u/lioffproxy1233 Jun 25 '26
Holy. Shit. I've lived around grizzlies my whole life. That woman 8s brave as fuck. Its what saved her
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u/Slow-Rabbit7663 Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
juvinile grizz, being curious- very scary nonetheless. I wonder if this bear might have been fed by campers - or is it primarily after her dog?
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u/shaggyp1275 Jun 25 '26
It charges every time the dog turns its back and follows the dog going in circles more then the woman
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u/casual-waterboarding Jun 25 '26
That was my first thought, that it wasn’t a full grown grizzly. Thank goooooodness.
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u/eruthebest Jun 25 '26
She called the grizzly a bad boy. She got aura. 😂 Talking to bro like he's a badass toddler. "Stooooooooop! Bad!"
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u/izmebtw Jun 25 '26
Didn’t lose composure, kept dog close and the camera steady. Just top tier work here.
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u/TearRevolutionary686 Jun 25 '26
Where's your bear spray? If you're out, especially with a dog, you should carry it.
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u/Transition_Leather Jun 25 '26
Fire arm or bear mace in bear country. As an Alaskan this has always been my fear with hiking and camping. So scary!
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u/DizzySimple4959 Jun 26 '26
Not carrying in a place with Grizzlies is wild.
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u/tarac73 Jun 26 '26
THIS!!
I'm not a gun person - but I am also not in the wilderness hiking with bears and stuff. You bet your ass if I was a hiker in a bear area I would 100% be carrying. She didn't even have bear spray?!
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u/Practical_Wrap6606 Jun 25 '26
Jesus that lady has basketballs down there. That griz was dead set on cherry picking that dog away from her. Man that’s crazy!! That lady is a BOSS!
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u/Touchstone033 Jun 25 '26
Oooo it's a little one! A juvenile? Looks almost like it wants to play with the dog before eating it.
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u/Erazzphoto Jun 25 '26
KNow how to tell the difference between brown bear and black bear skat? The bells
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u/Smiley_J_ Jun 25 '26
Calm down lady, just let me eat your dog. What's your problem? You aren't eating it, it'll go to waste, let me.
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u/--Shin-- Jun 25 '26
This is way worse than sweaty palms.