Yaddle and the Bear

Yaddle was a lovely female pomchi who came to us to live for awhile. She looked a lot like this picture from Wikipedia Commons:

For a large part of 2016, we were off-grid in NE Washington. When I say off-grid, I really mean off-grid. We lived in a small cabin in the woods. No electricity except a few small battery-operated lights, no running water (I pulled up water from the well.) No gas, no internet and even the phone and ham radio were quite patchy on whether they could hit anything. Despite that, It was quite idyllic in many aspects, but it also challenged us to our limits and beyond.

One day, we were sitting by the campfire, cooking supper when one of the kids started yelling "Bear! Bear!"
We had a friend with a dog named Bear, so I immediately started looking for this dog. But then, I saw the black shape over by the cabin where in my haste to prepare supper, I hadn't put away all the shopping. The bear was trying to take one of the bags.

Without thinking, I ran at the bear making as much noise as I could - there was NO WAY it was stealing my shopping! Thankfully, the bear thought twice about challenging this loud, crazy woman, dropped my shopping and ran off down the hill. Yaddle went running after the bear as well, telling it in no uncertain terms that he was not to harass us!

I wish it was the last time we encountered that bear, but it wasn't.
Older than a cub, but still quite young, it came back a few times, once killing some of our chickens.
We often were slightly afraid to wander, especially in the early evening because of this bear, but Yaddle was not afraid.

It got to the point that all we had to do was yell at the bear or growl at it and Yaddle would get the message and chase that bear back down the hill again!

You have to understand that this bear was about the size of four short people huddled together and Yaddle was about the size of a large handbag! This bear could have EATEN Yaddle if it had recognized the fact, but the dog was undaunted and continued to scare that bear away for the rest of the summer.

Yaddle was an awesome dog and we miss her very much - unfortunately, she ran off when we moved, dazed by the big city and trying to find her people (us) when we were away from her.

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