Andiphant
04-29-2004, 01:24 PM
I just read this article in my home town paper. Thought I'd share it.
Beagle faces off with grizzly
By TIM MOWRY
Staff Writer
Thursday, April 29, 2004 - When Tiffany Morris looked out the window and saw her pet beagle, Buddy, standing face to face with a grizzly bear on Tuesday night in Anderson, she couldn't bear to look.
"They were standing there nose to nose, looking at each other," said Morris, describing what she said is the scariest moment in her 20-year life. "I thought, 'My dog is going to get eaten.'
"I couldn't look," she said. "I just dropped onto the floor."
Her sister, Tammy, meanwhile, was at the window banging two pots together trying to scare the bear away, a technique that wasn't working.
Panicked, Tiffany ran to another room to get a phone to call for help. Before she did, she heard a 911 tone come over an EMT radio that belongs to her boyfriend, Cory Leff, who is the town's fire chief. The dispatcher said there was a bear in the yard across the street.
"I grabbed the radio and said, 'No, it's in our yard. He's attacking our dog. We need help,'" she said.
Fortunately, the Anderson cavalry arrived in time to save Buddy.
"In a matter of two minutes half the town was here," Tiffany said. "I looked out and saw rifles everywhere. That's when I felt safe."
The bear, a sow, was chased off and killed a few minutes later by local residents in the small town nestled in the woods off the Parks Highway about 80 miles south of Fairbanks.
The only injuries 12-year-old Buddy suffered were a slobbered-on back and emotional trauma, Tiffany said.
"He had slobber all down his back," she said. "He was laying on the floor shaking and breathing hard for about four hours afterward."
There's more to it here. (http://www.news-miner.com/cda/article/print/0,1674,113%257E7244%257E2116085,00.html)
Beagle faces off with grizzly
By TIM MOWRY
Staff Writer
Thursday, April 29, 2004 - When Tiffany Morris looked out the window and saw her pet beagle, Buddy, standing face to face with a grizzly bear on Tuesday night in Anderson, she couldn't bear to look.
"They were standing there nose to nose, looking at each other," said Morris, describing what she said is the scariest moment in her 20-year life. "I thought, 'My dog is going to get eaten.'
"I couldn't look," she said. "I just dropped onto the floor."
Her sister, Tammy, meanwhile, was at the window banging two pots together trying to scare the bear away, a technique that wasn't working.
Panicked, Tiffany ran to another room to get a phone to call for help. Before she did, she heard a 911 tone come over an EMT radio that belongs to her boyfriend, Cory Leff, who is the town's fire chief. The dispatcher said there was a bear in the yard across the street.
"I grabbed the radio and said, 'No, it's in our yard. He's attacking our dog. We need help,'" she said.
Fortunately, the Anderson cavalry arrived in time to save Buddy.
"In a matter of two minutes half the town was here," Tiffany said. "I looked out and saw rifles everywhere. That's when I felt safe."
The bear, a sow, was chased off and killed a few minutes later by local residents in the small town nestled in the woods off the Parks Highway about 80 miles south of Fairbanks.
The only injuries 12-year-old Buddy suffered were a slobbered-on back and emotional trauma, Tiffany said.
"He had slobber all down his back," she said. "He was laying on the floor shaking and breathing hard for about four hours afterward."
There's more to it here. (http://www.news-miner.com/cda/article/print/0,1674,113%257E7244%257E2116085,00.html)