“He took my head in his mouth and I ended up on the ground”: Mother attacked by bear, saved by her dog's barking

L’incident a eu lieu sur le sentier Transcanadien (illustration). Unsplash – 🇸🇮 Janko Ferlič

Une jeune mère de famille qui faisait son jogging avec son berger allemand a été attaquée par un ours, le 30 juin dernier.

Vanessa Chaput, 24, was attacked by a bear on June 30 while running with her dog near the Pine Lake Campground in Ontario. She tells Today that she found the strength to survive by thinking about her two-year-old daughter and her husband. The incident happened on the Trans Canada Trail, which she knew well, around 10:30 p.m.

“I saw the male that was going to attack me first… and two smaller bears about three metres away from me", Vanessa said. When she tries to get away by pulling on the leash of her dog Luna, a German shepherd, the latter escapes and starts chasing the cubs, leaving Vanessa alone to face the grizzly. “I wanted to hide behind a tree, but the bear made me fall… “He took my head in his mouth and I ended up on the floor,” she recalled, adding that she felt like a rag doll. .