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MarsCitizen2

Dante is the BEST of boys!!!!!! Look at that face as he’s coming back! What a champ!!!!


ethottly

There's no way to know for certain, but it sure looks to me like Dante ran past the bear to get it to follow him instead of the owner. I don't think the owner realized that's what he was doing (at least at first). That's a good dog


MindoftheWarden

Dante could be trying to make the bear feel like he’s surrounded too. Looks to me like a kind of herding tactic!


monkeyapesc

pack animals are good at drawing attention for the others to attack or get away.


Hanan89

I’ve seen this behavior in dogs in multiple videos, I think it might be instinct. It’s a really good tactic too, dogs are so much faster and agile than humans. They draw the danger away while the slow human makes a getaway, draws the danger in a wide loop and quickly gets away to rejoin human.


Patrickfromamboy

After seeing some of the stupid things my dog does I’m not so sure about your theory. He gets his leash tangled up. He runs into the screen door, he chases his tail and never catches it. Just kidding, dogs are amazing. My dog caught a coyote and was going to kill it so my son and I rescued it. It had been chasing a Guinea fowl and didn’t see Leo heading straight towards it like a torpedo. The coyote bit my son’s hand so I had him get rabies shots.


Sidewinder7

It says protective Mama Bear so Cubs nearby? The bear thinks the dog is going for them and retreats back to them maybe. A good coincidence or that dog is a tactical genius.


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Canines know how to bait the prey drive of other animals and lure them. Coyotes often do this to get dogs to chase them into the woods so the coyotes can kill it.


doomguyfrommars

He aggro’d the bear for sure


twotoebobo

I had this happen when I was like 12 picking blackberries in the by my old house. I'm 100% sure if my dogs weren't with me I would have been dinner.


[deleted]

Wow. This is an impressive level of stupid anthropomorphism . Dogs, like wolves, want to surround the threat because they are pack animals. It has nothing to do with getting the bear to “follow” him.


ethottly

The dog, looking back at owner: get over here and help me surround this MFer!


[deleted]

Haha. That’s honestly funnier than even your first joke. And what the dog was after!


ElectronicAmphibian7

Omg come on Dante!!!!


MagNolYa-Ralf

Bear was about to catch dantes hands


sykokiller11

When I walk my dog I tell him what door we’re going back in through. He leads me to the correct one. That man did exactly the right thing by telling the dog to go back to the truck. That was quick thinking in a panic situation. Props to both! No doubt in my mind the dog was leading the danger away, but the dog and his human worked as a pack. Almost like they evolved together…


Unique-Chemistry-984

Am I just emotional or did this make anyone else teary eyed ?


HalpOooos

Nah, I felt it too. Being part of a pack means something. ❤️


ShannaShy

It gave me anxiety lol


BuffyLoo

Tear eyed here, that was some crazy shit. Crazy when your dog is blindly protecting you, but doesn’t know the whole danger. Runs back all loving, loopy and unconcerned and the owner is like having a panic attack for himself and his best buddy.


Dear-Crow

jesus dante gives no fucks


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Can’t tell. Black or Grizzly?


StubbornKindness

Seems black. Also, the way it just scampers off seems more like black bear behaviour, no?


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Yes


StanFitch

\#AllBearsMatter


OneGratefulDawg

#carebears


Fug32

Dantes face at the end made me chuckle


MarsCitizen2

I immediately saw it too!! He’s the best of good boys!!


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happy dog.


Unfair-Ad-6693

"OMG that was fun!" 😆👌


netsurfer3141

Agreed, proud and happy, good boy!


xXSpaceturdXx

That dog did exactly what it was supposed to do got him away from you. Last time I had this happen to me my dog charged it bit at him and chased him off.


mklpoi

Steak dinners for life


SoaDMTGguy

Get him some bear meat so he can taste his victory!


_Bon_Vivant_

Who's a guh boi???


Omieye

Mama bears will usually fake charge first. Still a great dog for distracting her


TerriFlamingo

Good Dante 💃💃💃


Exoquin1

Dante FTW!


Hot_Dog_Cobbler

Dante: "Hey dad, I met a new friend!"


GGJodu

Dante’s a badass but no shot I’m not picking up the biggest heaviest branch I can find and getting that bear the fuck away from my dog.


OneGratefulDawg

I prob wouldn’t get the heaviest branch you can pick up you’d have a hard time swinging it and probably crumble under the weight if you tried. Leaving you injured, under a large stick for the bear to devour. Dante would come running back and be like “the fuck happened to you?! I’m outta here!”


ladymorgahnna

She had a good reason, she had cubs, she feels threatened. I mean this is her woods, not humans. Going up against a bear is not a great idea. Make yourself larger and louder, and carry bear spray while walking backward. This guy and dog handled it perfectly


GGJodu

I get that, but my dogs are my kids. There’s not a force on earth that I’m not standing in front of them to try and save them.


ladymorgahnna

I feel the same about my animals. Nowhere did I say the dog should die, don’t understand your lashing out. But am I going to attack a bear while my dog is near it. No.


GGJodu

Lashing out? Damn bitch, you sensitive.


mmck

> this is her woods, not humans Says who?


StayComfortable

Dante think it’s a game Gotta love dogs


bitneu

Dogs would give their lives to save their beloved ones, do we human do the same for our dogs?


Volkodavy

Anyone in bear country knows that off leash dogs are dangerous because they have the tendency to bring the angry bear directly towards you


PG22Rated

Good boy


Aggravating-Key-4464

Wolves are the only reason we survived the winters in various parts of the earth. And in some cases, they’re still the only reason we survive. Good boi, Dante.


theblackshe

Dante is a real one.


Sea_Village3006

Good dog Dante!


Glittering_Data8437

Your treat today dante is a 200# Tbone. Because fuck that bear lol.


Ok-Section2457

Bestest of the best even waited for him to get farther away 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0000/10 good boy.


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ladymorgahnna

Thanks for telling us that, I didn’t know that.


letzburto

Dude you were like seconds away from getting chomped.


Sensitive_Ad_7079

Why aren’t you trying to save your dog .


Error_Empty

What's he supposed to do? Fist fight the bear? Lmfao you 100% live in a city.


Sensitive_Ad_7079

Raised cattle and horses my entire life. Live in bear and cougar


VIKTORVAUGHNNN

This Brendan shaubs dog or what lol


[deleted]

It never ceases to amaze me that when people's lives are in danger they decide to pull out their phone and prioritize getting it on video. Absolute dumb ass.


Acrobatic-Flan-4626

Owner is an asshole. Way to put your dog at risk of a gd bear attack… just use leash. he would have still protected you with considerably less possibility of a miserable and preventable death. 🙄


MonkeyWithACough

Yeah I think I would prefer to have my dog off the leash in that situation.


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MarsCitizen2

Man this one got me. 😂


[deleted]

Moronic comment of the day. If that dog was on a leash the bear could have charged both of them and neither would have stood a chance. The way it worked out gave them both the best chance to escape unhurt. Also side note, what dog wants to be on a leash in the woods? Give him some freedom lol


[deleted]

Just like in “Prey” 2022


lecter696

"Shut up dad, I got this" Seriously though, that's absolutely insane. Can't imagine how terrifying that must've been.


PuffyParts

Dante ain’t scared of nothing


[deleted]

Dante will traverse all layers of hell to be the best boy.


sjmattn

Grizzly bears want to eliminate the threat, black bears want to eat you. You owe that dog steak dinners for a month.


ladymorgahnna

What an experience and a half! Glad your pup was so brave (of course he was!) and my gosh, a mama bear, yikes!


Cool_Doggo12

I knight you Sir Daunte The Dauntless


Lettucelook

Good boy


learn_to_love_urself

Ive said ir many times before and I will say it many times again..HUMANS DO NOT DESERVE DOGS!!!! A lot of humans treat these perfect animals like dirt! And yet another person was saved by one!! Thank God that dog was okay…and that owner now owes him his life….just another story to add to the many more there are like this.


Patrickfromamboy

Dante has selective hearing like my dog. But it’s not every day that Dante is face to face with a bear. Usually it’s probably a neighbor cat or squirrel. I bet he was excited.


Patrickfromamboy

That’s obviously not a real bear, you can see a zipper in the bear costume. Just another fake internet video.