With bears being out and about now in Montana, here’s an example of what we don’t want to happen. You might have heard about the woman in Frenchtown back in 2010 who had a 200-pound bear trying to push open her door and she ended up scaring it away with a vegetable from her garden. This all happened after the bear ripped her jeans while she tried to get it off of her older dog.
Two of the dogs sensed the bear, began barking and ran away, Maricelli said. The third dog, a 12-year-old collie that wasn’t very mobile, remained close to the woman as she stood in the doorway of the home near Frenchtown in Western Montana.
She threw the vegetable. It bopped the bruin on the top of its head and the animal fled, Maricelli said.
To read the full article from September 23, 2010 in the Billings Gazette, click here.
Feature photo is of the actual zucchini used to fend off the bear. (AP Photo/by Missoula County Sheriff)