A dog made friends with an entire family of bears, which he could be seen playing with near the village of Ust-Kamchatsk in the Russian region of Kamchatka.The bears were reportedly terrorizing ...

These dogs scare bears away—to protect them. Karelian bear dogs are a new, non-lethal tool for wildlife agencies concerned with ursine visitors getting too comfortable around humans.

Russian state media reported that the usual methods of scaring the bears away using police sirens, car horns and dogs are no longer effective, because the animals have become so used to them.

A dog made friends with an entire family of bears, which he could be seen playing with near the village of Ust-Kamchatsk in the Russian region of Kamchatka.The bears were reportedly terrorizing ...