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Originally Posted by mikephoen
People have taken dogs everywhere for tens of thousands of years.
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But people probably weren't silly enough to intervene in a bear-dog conflict because they had an emotional attachment to the dog.
We'll never know exactly what happened here, but I suspect the humans tried to scare the bear away from his prey/kill. Maybe the humans here considered possible scenarios and figured the dog would be an early warning system and that they would be able to scare any bear off...they probably didn't think through what they'd do if the bear had the dog in its jaws.
It's hard not to feel a little judgmental here, but I think it's also important to remember that we've all made tons of very dangerous mistakes in our lifetime (in the backcountry or otherwise) but it rarely ends up costing us like this.