A dog is recovering from injuries after fighting a black bear on a trail near Ketchum, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game said in a news release last week. It’s the latest in a series of black bear conflicts in the Wood River Valley and across Idaho.
Fish and Game officials said a woman was walking her dog near her home in the East Fork area south of Ketchum on July 22 when she and the dog encountered a black bear near the trail. The woman was walking backwards and talking to the bear, the agency said, when her dog, which was off-trail, came back to the trail and began to “scuffle” with the bear.
The woman described the bear as roughly the same size as her dog, a 120-pound Great Pyrenees. Great Pyrenees are large livestock guardian dogs frequently used in Idaho to guard sheep.
