A Florida woman was attacked by a bear in her driveway last week while walking her dog, leaving her with a significant laceration to her face, according to a police report.
The woman, who identified herself as Aydee, was attacked around 9: 00 pm last Thursday in Debary when he came across a frightened mother black bear that had been passing by in the neighborhood. When Aydee tried to escape, the bear followed her and hurt her.
“When I found out, she brought me here,” Aydee told Fox 11 about the ordeal as he pointed to the large cut on the left side of his forehead. “I ran out and she came running after me”.
“I was screaming and going to my neighbors to see if they could call 911 or help me or get a gun,” he said.
Neighbor Awston Kennedy told the outlet that he heard Aydee knocking on his door, who seemed more concerned about the well-being of her dog.
Kennedy said that just before the attack, the bear was up in a tree in front of his house, when he came down to look for food in the garbage, on the side of the road. The neighbors tried to chase the bear away, but it went after Aydee.
After After the attack, neighbors scared the bear and her cubs into the woods until authorities arrived.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) and the Florida Sheriff’s Office Volusia County responded to the call, where they found the mother bear and her three 1-year-old cubs sitting in a tree, the FWC said in a news release.
FWC biologists arrived at the place and euthanized the mother bear with a tranquilizer, determining that her three cubs, each weighing approximately 100 pounds, were old and large enough to survive on their own. No attempt was made to capture them, authorities said.
Aydee said she wished the puppies had been relocated, fearing they would just come back.
“I’m also an animal lover, but those aren’t my friends . She was breaking into my house. It wasn’t on their territory,” Aydee told Fox 35.
Other neighbors were reportedly upset with the decision to kill the mother bear, who they said had lived in the area for seven or eight years and had never been a problem or threat before.
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