Actually I do think it is quite rare to lose a dog to a bear - at least I haven't heard of it happening much. It was only recently made legal to use dogs for bear hunting here, as they give the hunter such an advantage over the bear.

But - was it worth it to him to lose 6 dogs trying to get a bear??? I mean - you only get one bear tag per year, and that's if you're lucky. You have to enter a lottery for a bear tag. So he was willing to kill six of his dogs just to get his one bear.

If he has 8 dogs left that means he had 14 dogs. Obviously he wasn't treating them as pets. I'm sure they were all kept outdoors. Poor things. First they're kept outdoors in the UP all year (and it literally gets 30 below zero here in the winter), and then he brings them into wolf territory to be picked off one at a time.

Why did he keep going back to that spot? There are lots of places he could hunt.

They should be taken away from him. Today I'm writing the SPCA. Do you think they'll do anything?