Bear destroyed after human encounter at Mount Seymour

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NORTH VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – A black bear has been put down after coming into contact with some people walking on the trail at Mount Seymour.

A woman named Terry tells News1130 she was walking her dogs when a man came running towards her yelling that a bear – which was mistaken for a grizzly – tried to attack him.

“He was down the hill, he was in shock,” she says. “He was literally within three feet of being attacked by a huge (sic) grizzly bear. He was on his own, there was no way to get away, he ran, the bear ran after him. It reared again and then it heard… the dogs and turned around to go in that direction.”

“He said if she hadn’t been there, he would have been a gonner…

“It reared again, [and] there was a dog walker up there, a female dog walker with four dogs,” she says. “He high-tailed and booted it out of there and as he was leaving he heard her screaming for the dogs and them charging after the bear, and they wouldn’t come back.”

North Vancouver RCMP Sergeant Peter DeVries doesn’t know if the encounter involved a person or a dog.

“I really have no information as to whether anyone has been injured or if there was a mauling or anything of that sort,” he says.

Mounties are warning people in the area to be cautious as bears are just waking up from hibernation and are hungry.

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