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I know what you mean, but feel important to add a clarification: your dog might well seriously expand your collective backwoods situational awareness. This obv
by jjtheblunt 3y ago
I know what you mean, but feel important to add a clarification: your dog might well seriously expand your collective backwoods situational awareness.
This obviously depends on the characteristics of the dog, and in my case the dogs were not designer AKC fashion breed types, one has feral parents, and anyway had a preternatural awareness of things like other wild animals minutes earlier than i could.
- VS1999 3y agoA dog is a dog. They're more likely to draw aggro from a bear and bring it to you than warn you of the presence of another threat. This is one of the reasons that when hiking you're advised to keep your dog on a leash. My state government is pretty open about that risk.
- djtango 3y agoThe image of a dog MMO style Leroy pulling a bear causing you to wipe on a hike wasn't a laugh I was expecting to find on a discussion about drowning and hiking misadventures
- mattpallissard 3y ago> They're more likely to draw aggro from a bear. Nah, bears generally don't like dealing with dogs. Although I do agree that leashing is a good idea. Source: I live in Alaska.
- hollerith 3y agoOK, but I've heard a bear expert or 2 (on Youtube) say that it will increase the probability that a bear will attack you if you bring a dog with you.
- mattpallissard 3y agoMaybe, I don't claim to be an expert. But I have watched dogs tree aggressive bears with my own eyes.
- gumby 3y agoIndeed in one case where I was lost in the snow my dog saved my life.