A man in the Little Fatra attacked a bear, defended from her ax
The man had a dog with him that ran around him without a lead.
BRATISLAVA. A man in Malá Fatra on Friday attacked a bear, informs server Žilinak.sk. He defended himself with an ax. On the same day, the bear also seriously injured one man, the other, in Malá Fatra.
The man had a dog with him that ran around him without a lead. Several tens of meters apart he saw a bear with three small and one grown chick. Although the bear was alerted to his presence, so that he would not surprise her, she attacked him. It was not impressed by the bear spray, so he defended himself with an ax he worn into the mountains to cut the pavement if it were overgrown or if the branches were fallen. The bear on the man stopped attacking after the second or third wound he had planted. Then she ran and the bears went to her.
However, we are a forest on the Facebook page warned to several doubts about the incident. For example, it is not known whether he had the attacked permitted movement outside the marked forest path, and was in the natural habitat of the bear. It also seems that the spray also used incorrectly and it is also possible that the dog itself could provoke the bear. « It is forbidden to have a dog without a lead in the national park, » reminds us the forest.
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The Slovak Parliament last June after earlier repeated bear meetings with people approved an exception to the protection of bears in case the occurrence of these beasts threatens the life, health or property of people or crops and livestock. The condition for easier issuance of a license to dispose of problem bears is the declaration of an emergency situation in the location concerned.
