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A A man from Florida was bitten in the stomach by a black bear last month when he tried to break up a fight between the wild animal and his family’s beloved dog.
Blake Sprout said his dog chased the bear cub, which was with its mother and two other cubs, after he let the dog out of his home in Volusia County around midnight on Dec. 20. FOX 35 Orlando informed.
“He growled and lunged and just latched onto my stomach,” Sprout told the news outlet about the bear.
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Last month, Blake Sprout was attacked by a black bear while trying to protect his dog. (WOFL)
The a dog, a spitz named Karenwas attacked first, he said.
“There were three bears and my dogs saw them and just ran at them,” he said.
A neighbor captured the attack on video, which shows Sprout running into the yard to intervene as the bear has Karen in its mouth.
“I ran up to him and kicked him in the chest to get him out,” Sprout explained.
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Blake Sprout shows a bruise on his stomach from a bear bite. (WOFL)
Sprout said he intervened when Karen was attacked because she was “part of the family.”
“I couldn’t just sit there and watch her die. My children love her,” he said. “I couldn’t just tell them at Christmas, ‘Our dog is gone.’
The bears were later captured by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) and relocated.
Blake Sprout holds his dog Karen after being attacked by a young bear. (WOFL)
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“FWC bear management officers set traps on the property and successfully captured three bear cubs and an adult female bear, then relocated the family group,” the agency said in a statement to the outlet.
It is legal to shoot and kill in Florida a bear in self-defense or to protect certain property.
