An Unexpected Visitor

We had an unexpected visitor stop by the farm! Bears are a great part of wildlife in the blue ridge, but tend to get labeled a nuisance due to there incredible trash rooting skills and uncanny bird feeder destruction abilities. Just a few weeks ago we lost a couple of our bird feeders to a bear, including the one on our deck in front of the house! Although majestic creatures, we do not welcome them on to our property despite our appreciation of there innate skills mentioned above. It's too risky with our livestock being tasty treats and all. Fortunately, we have a bear police force at our disposal.

For whatever reason, bears are terrified of dogs. I guess it's the same reason why vampires are afraid of werewolves, but I can't seem to figure that out either. Usually the dogs smell the bear(s) before we get a chance to see them, but since this big one was down wind in the lower field far from the house, we got a chance to spot it before the dogs.

Shot taken from 400yds away. He was huge!

Release the hounds!!

Oskar running the bear off...

..and Annie not knowing what's going on...