Grizzly Takes Down Horse North of City Limits
Thursday, October 10, 2013 @ 2:48 PM
Prince George, B.C. – The Conservation Officers in Prince George have set a snare trap for a grizzly bear in the area at the east end of Salmon Valley Road near the Fraser River.
“This is a big bear” says Conservation Officer Gary Van Spangen. “He killed a horse on Tuesday evening by pushing on it’s back.” He says he is concerned this could be the same bear that was responsible for two similar styles of kills on the opposite side of the Salmon River last year. In those cases, two yearling calves had been killed when their backs were broken.
Van Spangen says the horse killing case is unusual as normally when a bear makes a kill, it will feed on the animal it has taken down, or at the very least drag it off into the bush. “This bear didn’t feed right away” says Van Spangen.
The owners of the horse are devastated says Van Spangen, who adds, the animal has already been buried.
As for snaring the grizzly, there is no telling when, or if the bear will return to the site of the horse kill “We are hoping he will be attracted to the bait we have set out, but he may not come back for a week or so.
In the meantime, Van Spangen is reminding farmers in the area to keep track of their livestock, and conduct regular head counts.
Comments
Time load up the 45-70 and hunt it down.
Uhhhh… yeah, okay… “we’re gonna need a bigger gun” ….. always makes me grin when I think of the bravado that most guys have about facing a Griz…. lots of talk, lots of posturing, lots of wannabe Alan Quartermain types…
Best piece of equipment to take with you is a big roll of three ply Ultra White Cloud.
I speak the truth when I say that face to face is nothing like Disney would have you believe.
Terror is off the scale… nothing else even comes close.
V.
I’m with you RRrabbit. Met a grizzly in Kamloops behind a wire cage and he made me feel very very small.
Here Yogi……Nice bear.
Better put your horses in the barn and not let them out before 7am. Leaving horses around just encourages bears to come into farms. Much like garbage does in Prince George.
Dragonmaster has the right idea. The 45-70 is the gun for the job.
A Griz was killed with a 22 single shot bolt. It was the world record Griz for a number of years.
http://www.angelfire.com/on2/LandOwner/misc/Grizley1.html
I seen the biggest Gizzly I ever saw last year near Hubble Homestead. It walked across the road with no fear and its back was as high as my hood on my pickup. Big and round probably weighed over a thousand pounds. I figured at the time it must be feeding on the elk along the Fraser in the area.
Was in a gun shop the other day and a brave man in camo was lookin to buy a the shortest little 12g pump I have ever seen, to kill a bear that killed one of his sheep. He said he was from up in the Salmon river area. Good luck with that one!
“I speak the truth when I say that face to face is nothing like Disney would have you believe.
Terror is off the scale… nothing else even comes close”
I’d feel the same way if I was a rabbit!
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