[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Good training doesn't mean #### when you're talking about a predator potentially desperate for food with dwindling options and the ability to smell 7 times better than a hound.

My dad told me stories of how bears raided his friends camp and tore into their canned food because they could pick up on the contents of said cans. Pretty wild.

Given that, your well trained dog sitting in your tent is like a warm sandwich in a bag to any desperate bear in a pretty vast vicinity. Me personally, I wouldn't want to be sleeping in that bag with it.

That's nice that you feel consoled by the odds, and are willing to roll the dice in the backcountry just because it's inconvenient to leave the dog at home. Personally I'd want to boost my odds of incident-free travel as much as humanly possible given that the worst case scenario was just trotting around in our own backyard and could have easily crossed paths with any one of us like it did with these hikers.