That’s when Jones says she reached up to pet the animal, thinking it was the neighbour’s dog, and discovered it was a black bear. Jones said that when she reached up, the bear got startled and backed up. She knew something was off before she even turned around because the fur felt sharp and prickly. The bear trotted off and Jones stood up. “I stumbled backwards into the water and he ran up the hill,” she said. “The entire thing happened so fast. Sixty seconds and it was done,” Jones added.
“I was absolutely terrified. I wouldn’t have been able to defend myself against a bear like that if he had attacked. There was an overwhelming sense of being powerless.” Jones says she immediately started taking photos of the bear, “in case something happened and people found my mauled body.” She followed behind the bear until she got to the street and watched the bear go back into the woods. She saw a couple neighbours come out to walk their dog and warned them about the bear.
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They began calling neighbours to give them a heads up. A newsletter was sent out saying that several other neighbours had also seen a bear, Jones said. Jones told her friends that she called her parents “like all children do.” “That’s right. When it comes to being licked by a bear, I am still a child,” she joked. Despite being scared during the encounter, Jones said she won’t let it change her habits when she visits. She still plans to do yoga and watch the sunrise over the lake and mountains and going for hikes in the woods. “I’m not going to be nervous - nature is nature.”
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People kill a lot ore bears than bears kill people. This is true for most animals. In the same way Americans kill and attack more people than any other people. They, therefore, are more prone than others to get hysterical about the danger posed by black bears, who rarely hurt anyone. They tend to project their aggressiveness onto other people and animals.
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