Connecticut woman hospitalized after bear attack | GMA
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- The senior citizen was walking her dog near Hartford when she was bitten by a black bear, which has since been euthanized.
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Here is some advice to all of you living where there are bears from someone who has for the last seven decades: many years ago I lived in a very remote area. It was so remote garbage pick up was only every other week. No matted how I tried to store the garbage, bears would either get to it or cause damage try to get to it. I was at my wits end when one day, as I went to throw away a hot dog package, I had a eureka moment, why not wash the package/can/wrapper that had food in it bears wanted to eat BEFORE I throw it out! After that, NOT ONE INCIDENT, EVER!!!!
So, please take the little extra time to use soap and hot water to clean your containers and compost any food scraps to save yourself and the bears a lot of trouble. Compost vegetables but if you have meat scrapes or meat that has gone bad and you want to dispose of it, seal it in a plastic bag and freeze it until just before you put it in the garbage right before pick up. PS Bonus:The garbage did not stink after that!
People should definitely follow your example. For the safety of the bears.
Bear proof garbage cans work. I got the photos to prove it. Problem is you got folks who don't even use cans as plastic bags are cheaper.
@@josephshields2922 So when closed there's no smell at all?
@@Readysetgo2007 No, I was so grateful, the bears taught me how to be more hygienic, no flies, no stink. I lived in a town for a while and kept doing the same because it was just better. Composting was a little harder, but once I figured out how to it became routine and not a problem. Also, in my compost heap, I never had a bear rooting around it. Only a skunk every now and then.
My first thought is, how remote can it be if you still have garbage pick up??
But of course, everywhere is different..
I feel bad for laughing at that clip of the lounging man's reaction, seeing the bear. 😂
The bear's reaction of moaning and running away was even funnier 🤣.
@@front331 it's such a great clip 😂
definitely a yoiks moment
@@front331 Except the moron news anchor who said "He was Lucky" Luke had nothing to do with it. That's what bears do a million times a year.
That happened in my town of Greenfield, Massachusetts.
Leave bears 🐻 alone. We are in bear territory. Give them their space and respect.
Oh, so people have no rights? Sad how much you hate people. Secondly, you are human so why are you and your family living in a bear habitat? Why don't you leave?
No I value human life more
Poor bear didn't have to be killed. Such a shame. Rest in peace 🐻💕
Yes it did. Once it's tasted human blood, it becomes a bigger threat.
@@ChocoBabiChan I wasn't talking to you dumazz
@@ChocoBabiChan Isn't it more likely that the human tasted bad and the bear rather not bite a human again? I don't think it's right to practise this so called revenge behaviour. That she got attacked was probably the dog's fault I assume. The bear might felt threatened if the dog barked loudly. Just a guess though... Many videos also show black bears not being aggressive. They usually run away from people I mean.
I see a troubling lack of concern for a fellow human being in this remark!
No wonder why America is degenerating!
Human beings Lives Matter and have more value worth than that of animals' lives!
It is a scientific fact that once an animal attacks people, the individual animal will keep on doing so and thus poses a real danger towards peoples safety. Therefore, such individual animals must be uthenized.
@@MrKaido93 oh I apologize for feeling sympathy for an animal. I guess that makes me a bad person 🙄🖕
I hope the lady recovers, this is a fear of many and it's troubling she's endured this. Many prayers to the lady's health .
She needs to move
She has chosen to live in Bear county.
I feel bad for both the woman and the bear.
The Bear is dead, she is fine. Doesn’t sound equitable to me.
No way should you kill a bear for being a bear!
We should be killing bears actually. Since we stopped hunting them their populations overgrown and are mauling children in their backyards. They are predators, predators need to be hunted down and reduce their populations. Emotional dumbasses weak survival instincted douches: the LIBERALS love animals more than humans.
urban sprawl is a big problem the states and governments should create and preserve more wildlands for the wildlife to survive
How about closing the border first.
What they failed to mention is that she had 3 cubs with her. The bear was literally just protecting her cubs from the dog. Black bears are typically skittish, and it's not common for them to attack humans. We have to realize that we share the environment with these beautiful animals, and human beings are overpopulating the areas in which the bears live.
They tear down their natural habit and then they say that we are in their area?👍🏾👌🏾
Where do you expect us to go? We have every right to live there too
And they still have places to live
You can’t except us to leave every part of land alone just because some animals already live there
People have been destroying some parts of land for thousands of years to make it easier for them to live there
it's not their 'natural habit'. these are predator animals that roam to wherever their prey is. and they will kill or maim anything (including humans) if they sense they are a threat. so stop spredding nonsense about "they tear down their natural habit'.
Overpopulation
In a few hundred years we'll be living in forrest and jungles because we're running out of space.
@@car_insurance221 👍🏾👌🏾
yep. put up a new housing development. and the lost of food.
So sad for the the innocent bears whose habitats are being destroyed
Uh, Connecticut is not a natural bear habitat. They were brought down from Maine to reduce the huge deer population there🤪
@@pollypurree1834 i never said it was a natural habitat. Regardless it doesn’t matter if they were brought there or not, the land they once had is being destroyed which in turn is causing them to encroach on people’s homes.
@@joannamendoza2353 Uh, most of Maine, where they were taken from and brought to Connecticut by people, is uninhabited. Most of Maine has no cities or towns and is just "Maine". So, nobody was encroaching on them in that state. They were scooped up and driven to Connecticut in motor vehicles in order to help keep the deer population in check. So, the bears are the encroachers. That's akin to inviting a homeless person to live in your house and then, suddenly, he begins to bring in more and more homeless. Does that make those homeless have more rights to your home than you have?
@@joannamendoza2353another dumb emotional dumbass. You prefer children getting mauled by bears? They need to be hunted and reduce their populations. We deserve to live as well. Your a dumbass for valuing an animals life over a human.
I live in the mountains of WNC and black bears are common around my house spring through fall. As long as you give them space and don't feed them they prefer to peacefully walk away.
It's sad that it had to be put down, but black bear attacks on humans is a little on the rare side. This bear had now learned it's stronger than humans, and would no longer have considered us a threat. I don't like it. I don't like it when it happens to gators here in Florida, but I do understand it.
Why you even think we are considered a threat in cases they don't feel need to attack us?
Bear scratching his back😂
0:39 Correction: As the humans have gotten more comfortable in the bears habitat ...
Prayers for the bear.. 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
Just open your mouth and say ahhh
The best rule is to shoot and kill the bears!
Can’t they just relocate it to an animal sanctuary instead 😢
If only they helped.
@@Wmuthoni No need to do anything. Yellowstone Park has a policy of not euthanizing bears unless they are acting unnaturally like possible rabies or a predatory bear. Recently they decided not to euthanize a mother bear who was defending its cubs. They have a committee of experts determine this.
Another animal living his/her life killed because some people hate *wildlife* 😢
hate boohoohoo, oh the hate I need to cry
Please take your "#animalsarebetterthanpeople" bs somewhere else.
I would just call it revenge behaviour. It's sad, yes.
I see a troubling lack of concern for a fellow human being in this remark!
No wonder why America is degenerating!
Human beings Lives Matter and have more value worth than that of animals' lives!
It is a scientific fact that once an animal attacks people, the individual animal will keep on doing so and thus poses a real danger towards peoples safety. Therefore, such individual animals must be uthenized.
Get better please 🙏
Oh man, that's crazy. 😮😮😢
Why put the bear down? 😢 It doesn't know any better. We're the ones living in their habitats.
Bc the bear is now considered a threat to the community
Will you shut up with this type of nonsense? I believe in animal rights too but this earth is our home too. Yes the damn bear was put down before someone was killed. Bears get killed by other bears in nature when they enter the wrong territory. Its called life. Get used to it. It gets harder
@sdp-nm2in, Bet you wouldn’t be so smug if someone you loved got mauled by that bear.
@@matthewfernandez9122 Fr ppl r acting like the bears r holding grudges against us cuz we “stole” their homes
I’m pretty sure the bears weren’t even alive yet when those homes were made
Plus it’s literally a predator what do u expect?
So he doesn't bite your face off the next time you walk down the street. Just think how much makeup you'd have to cake on then.
So sorry for this woman and for the bear who may have been feeding cubs. Bears give birth in late winter. Also, people, bring in bird feeders at night if you live in a rural area.
Please don’t kill animals for being animals. It’s a shame. I hope if there were cubs…they’ll survive without their mama.
As terrible as it sounds, I would be installing electric fences. It protects both sides. Keeps the bears out (and other predators), and keeps people much safer. While a shock is unpleasant, it keeps them out of potential harm.
Doesn't sound bad, sounds appropriate. 👌
It's no surprise honestly...I mean look at the size of the bear in the thumbnail!
People have invaded the bear’s natural habitat. People need to learn how to live in bear country. Don’t put your garbage out till the morning, freeze any meat or fish garbage and put in in trash on garbage day. Try putting ammonia in the garbage can as a deterrent. Unfortunately bird feeders attract them also. Put bird feeders out in the winter when birds need it most. I live in an rural area with many bears, see them frequently and have never had a problem.
We didn’t invade anything
We have every right to live in that same area as well
Just because we made it more habitable for us doesn’t make us wrong
The bears still have places to go
And it’s 100% ok to warn people to be careful when living in these areas
People have been doing this for thousands of years
Of course it wouldn’t be ok to completely strip the animals homes away from them but we didn’t
garbage man comes early! PUT OUT THE NIGHT BEFORE!
Idiotic comment. There were less than 100 bears in New England in the 70's and now there are thousands so they are thriving well. The planet is equally ours, if not more so. No guilt should be born of being human.
They are so cute and clumsy looking but they definitely not cute when there mouth is gripped around your throat
Human population and housing developments have over taken wildlife habitat. It should not be seen as abnormal to see bears when your house is built where their habitat once was.
Nailed it. ty
Idiotic comment. There were less than 100 bears in New England in the 70's and now there are thousands so they are thriving well. The planet is equally ours, if not more so. No guilt should be born of being human.
yOU MISSED THE ENTIRE POINT - HUMANS LOOK AT WILDLIFE LIKE THEY ARE IN THE WAY. WE ARE EXPLODING ON ALL LEVLES IN POPULATION. SO STOP JUDGING THE POPULATIONS OF BEAR, DEER AND OTHER WILDLIFE. THEY DON'T RUN OVER US WITH CARS AND BUILD ON OUR LAND. SO I WOULD REFRAIN FROM USING THE TERM "IDIOTIC". i SPEAK WISDOM.
@@LisaJohnson-dx1dp
Relocate the poor bear instead of killing it. They just want to survive and live on earth too. That said, Sorry for the old lady hope she recovers soon
Please take your "#animalsarebetterthanpeople" bs somewhere else. That bear has tasted human blood, which made it a bigger threat.
It is a scientific fact that once an animal attacks people, the individual animal will keep on doing so and thus poses a real danger towards peoples safety. Therefore, such individual animals must be uthenized.
@@ChocoBabiChan Jesus, she's protecting herself, We all need to give space and respect. I know this was an unfortunate mishap, but the poor bear paid for its life. why?!
They keep losing habitat to people who do not want to be near other people.
@MY2 Cent
The population of Black Bears in Connecticut has greatly expanded.
A well managed Bear Hunting season is needed in order to achieve a proportional healthy balance of the Black Bear population so conflicts between human beings and bears are greatly reduced.
May be terrifying but the bears were there first....we keep encroaching on their living and make nothing for them to live on.
I agree with you 100%. Where are these animals supposed to go when humans take over their land?
Sorry, mankind was here first!
@@honey5269 LOL It is not their land. It was created for man to multiply and fill.
Give them your address, so they can drop off the next Bear that needs relocated.
It's so sad that the bear always loses😢
I hate it that in case of attacks, animals loose their lives. I don’t know what the woman did to cause the attack, but that shouldn’t be punishable by death.
People are building on their environment they don't have enough places to be. If you live near them you have to be mindful that they are trying to survive like everything else and that the woods are being built on and taking away from them. I lived in Florida and we had many alligators and wildlife there. You definitely have to respect their territory and stay out of it or you could get killed.
Yes absolutely thank you
Then, why don't you call Elon Musk and ask him if you can help him colonize Mars? That way, you and your family will no longer be encroaching on wildlife such as bears, earthworms, etc. Amazing how you see everyone as encroachers except yourself.
Secondly, dear, those bears were brought down from Maine to reduce the deer population. Connecticut is not their natural habitat
@@pollypurree1834 it doesn't matter animals need land and area to live and people need to respect their areas
@@rhondaunger1228 Then why are YOU bothering them??? Leave.
I was driving with my friend last Friday and a black bear ran out right in front of us! Couldn't stop in time. Hit bear on his/her back end but don't think they got hurt. No blood or fur on the vehicle. It was 3 in the afternoon!! We think it was a half grown cub who was/is breaking away from mama. I felt so bad!! 😢
Got a good smack on the butt and that's it. It would take a semi truck to harm the bear. Bears have a lot of fat on their bodies which is why it's hard to kill them with a gun.
I am going to make that 400 pounder who's been roaming my yard every night this past week VERY uncomfortable if he comes back tonight. Hope it roams into the orchard over the hill. They don't last long in that farmer's trees.
The nerve of these bears encroaching into our "suburban" way of life is unacceptable!
Isn't it the other way around? Just like we invaded the native land?
@@Socks461 duh
@@Socks461 you should let that nice friendly bear come live with you then
@@pstuddy was planning to in 2 weeks when my relatives are gone
@@Socks461 yea ok sure whatever…😒
Wow, just two hours ago I was thinking about being attacked by a black bear.
I was riding my bicycle home, and I passed by a _Deer Crossing_ sign. So, I was thinking that a bear could be crossing those very same streets. How about that, ey?
I would be scared to death being on a bicycle and seeing a Bear I’d be afraid he would chase after me . Oh hell no 🐻😳😱🥺🐻
If I was bit and didn’t require hospitalization I wouldn’t tell anyone.
When my ac was broken I had the screen on my door open and a big black bear tried to come in, he was pushing through the screen when my pit scared it away. I'm sure he was just hungry.
Bear not euthanized, murdered.
Was it on top of her? Or just bit her hand?
A bears dies for an attack yet people kill multiple people and get free room and board for a few years hospitalization dental care and turned loose to kill again. Amazing.
They killed a young bear and the women is fine. WTF?
Bears are extremely dangerous. They are stronger than you think and are very quick .
I was just waiting to hear that it happened in Simsbury, CT. And yup, no surprise here.
Black bears are heavily populated there.
I was in that town one day and literally saw a black bear across the street coming out of someone's garage.
Bear spray is a great tool, they learn to be leery of people after being sprayed. Their comfort in approaching people is the issue, make it uncomfortable and they will keep their distance. Its better for both people and bears to have a healthy and reasonable fear of each other.
I scare the bears away from my house with an air horn, that does it, they get so scared they never come back.
😳 she was more worried about the furniture wtf
Man invades the bears' area, and they are killed. Leave the bears alone
Why euthanise?! They don’t know what they did. Euthanising them does not help with the situation
Poor bear
Please take your "#animalsarebetterthanpeople" bs somewhere else. That bear has tasted human blood, which made it a bigger threat.
Poor Lady! Human beings lives matter and are worth defending!
@@ChocoBabiChan Animals are better than humans. Humans don’t show unconditional love and we start fights over stupid things like skin color. You think bears measure the others intelligence over fur color? No they don’t lmao. Humans are insane.
Keep the bear safe? Dude was tweaking for saying that.
2:00 best part of the vid. :D
Instead of BS scare tactics why not warn people about having "off leash dogs" . In this case the media claims the dog was on leash but 50% of all Bear attacks involve unleashed dogs and in 90% of these cases it is a "Dog attack" not a "Bear attack". I have been photographing bears for 15 years now and up until two years ago had my dog with me on 2 leashes. I never once had a bear with or without cubs act aggressively toward me. They seem to know when you have control of your dog.
We use to have way too many bears. They killed so many fawns the deer population was low. The mange hit them and I rarely see one now and for the first time in 40 years they did not tear up my bird feeder this spring.
Why'd they have to euthanize the bear?!?!!! 😢
Give them your address so they can drop him off at your home.
They had no right to kill that bear
The bears gotta eat too. If they're not attacking anyone I have no problem with a bear helping themselves to my garage.
Do not let media scaremonger about vital wildlife.
The immense number of innocent individual bears that are cruelly killed every year by human hunters in the U.S. alone is hardly a comparison to a few human lives that are taken every year. Especially when it is us taking everything from wildlife.
The poor bear! 😢
That lady was not hospitalized....she didn't want to go to the hospital and her 'bites' weren't bad
And they killed the bear?
If he does it once he will do it again and the next person may not be so lucky.
Unfortunately, once a bear goes after a human they are not considered a candidate for relocation as they go from being a "nuisance bear" to a threat to human life as they have learned humans are a potential food source and will teach other bears. This is commonly seen in the fact that only some area have difficulty with bears breaking into cars looking for food. In most cases a female bear did it and got food generations ago and taught their cubs who taught there cubs. In these areas bears still have the skills to break into cars and the knowledge that they may contain food despite locals not leaving food in their cars in years.
@@lunerwerewolf How on earth is defending yourself from a dog attack "Discovering Humans are a food source"?? The Bear bit the woman she didn't eat the woman and hunger was not even the motivation for the bite.BTW we don't taste that good. There are 450 thousand bears in North America and over 400 million people and bears only kill 2 of us each year and most of the time without eating us.
"near Hartford": Mr. Beizer is in Simsbury, but WFSB 3 video said Avon?
Not in Texas... would have been a trophy for a woman here💯
That ain't a bear... that his old lady...
Avon, CT has a large population of these bears roaming not surprised this is where it happened
Ridiculous that the go to reaction is kill the animal.
I hate to hear they murdered the bear.
People suck.
Wildlife shouldn't be destroyed, problems are caused by man.
Bears were here first!! We are definitely the invaders and this poor bear should not have to pay for our encroachment practices with its poor life!!
Amen to that Jim C and anyone who disagrees is heartless!
Some animal was probably here first where you live but you still live there. You don't have the moral high ground.
Then why don't you call Elon Musk and volunteer to help colonize Mars? Amazing how you see your fellow humans as too inferior to live on this planet but it's ok for you and your family to stay here.
Btw, sweetie, bears are not native to Connecticut. They were brought in to reduce the deer population. The bears, not the people, are the invaders. Connecticut is not a natural bear habitat.
I value human life more than any animal
There was no reason to euthanize the bear.....it was doing what nature tells it to do. I'm not saying the 74yr old woman was in the wrong here BUT she should have been more observant of her surroundings.....BEAR FACTS #1
Yes!
I lived in telluride and the guys in my building were constantly confronting bears in our dumpster, I couldn't believe they'd get with in ten or so feet and yell and throw rocks at it.
Smilesotheylikeyou
They were definitely crazy . That Bear could have come out of that dumpster and ripped his face off . Pissing that Bear off . 🐻😳😱🤪
Sorry fof her snd the vear but you do not want these bears getting used to seeing people as food.😔
Ugh. It’s largely out fault bears are coming into suburban neighborhoods after their habitats have been eradicated then they’re euthanized following human contact. Extremely unfair and unnecessary. Tranquilize the bear and relocate it. Why is that so difficult?
Stop killing animals and blaming them when its the humans living close their homes not the other way around
That’s not fair why does the bear have to be euthanized for being itself … that’s what animals do when they feel threatened!! Ppl need to do
More on their part to be safe and thereby keeping the Animals safe. That lady should have known her surroundings and realized that bears are there and can attack
And what did the woman do? Did she avoid the bear? Or are we to believe the mama bear just ran up to the woman for no reason?Poor mama bear.
They said she was walking her dog, so the dog probably barked at it. They were all probably startled and trying to defend themselves. Or do you think the woman, a senior citizen ran up to the bear to pet it?
@@carlam4986 No, I think the woman did not use her brains. Then it’s the bear’s fault because people are thick.
@@ccasey1904 I think you have no idea of what you are talking about! You have never lived around bears. I have and still do.
@@mandograssable I grew up around black bears and still live around them! I am VERY tired of irresponsible people causing needless harm and bear deaths! And when I get tired of hearing dump people and bear stories, there is always the crap that goes on at Yellowstone Park.
@@mandograssable And it’s weird: growing up in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, no one got bear bitten out with their dogs!
So don’t just drop food deeper in the woods to draw them away from the houses? Just kill them? Wow
If their homes weren't being taken away they would have woods to live,and people need to be careful knowing they are around. Instead of killing them,its peoples fault for taking their homes away! Not ok!!
The earth was made for mankind.
A bite ?! Fs
The lady was in the Bears house!!!!!!!!! why do you kill a bear for just being a bear?😢
LOOKS LIKE ITS OUR FAULT THAT THEY ARE COMING. THIS LADY SAID THAT THEY GOT COMFORTABLE. THERE IS NOOOOOO FOOOOD. HOW ARE OYU AN ANIMAL EXPERT????
The animal is the one to pay the price being euthanized unfortunately people don’t leave the animals alone and respect their presents and it always ends up being the animals fault.
Bear WARS 🐻
Geniuses blocked bear hunting and then are shocked when there’s more bear attacks
Yes when we have an overly aggressive population that breeds like rabbits we need to thin the herd
We all know this doesn't happen in States that have Bear hunting like Alaska, North carolina, Colorado, California etc...Right?
I live in a retirement community. Someone found a feral hog shot and skinned on one of the trails thru the woodsy areas of the complex.
Nice story Tex.
What's with all these feral hogs in Texas? don't they have fences down there?
The Bears have to live somewhere people need to stop invading their Territory
Cocaine BEAR 🐻
😅
The best rule is RIFLE..... Those things are extremely dangerous and should be nowhere around humans
Euthanizing a bear that is in their territory? Shameful! 🤨😠
They should put it in your backyard then.
Overpopulated? Gotta open season on em.
People built their homes in the BEARS area which has always been part of Their Habitat SO!!!
R.I.P Cocaine Bear
There was NO REASON to put the bear down! This has got to stop!
You are devoid of knowledge!
I see a troubling lack of concern for a fellow human being in this remark!
Human beings Lives Matter and have more value worth than that of animals' lives!
It is a scientific fact that once an animal attacks people, the individual animal will keep on doing so and thus poses a real danger towards peoples safety. Therefore, such individual animals must be uthenized.
@@MrKaido93 I stand by my comment! I am not devoid of knowledge & I feel bad for the lady, but these animals are pushed to the brink by humans taking over THEIR territory so what are they supposed to do? Their food sources are constantly destroyed, along with their homes! WE have places to go for food! THEY DONT!!!!!
@Krissy Scott
I stand by my comments as well. The problem is not a lack of food per say, it is the out of control expansion of the bear population. That is exactly why a managed Hunting season program is very much needed to keep the black bear population in portion.
what happened to the dog?
Probably didn't get attacked. Otherwise they would had mentioned that.
Get an air horn can and carry it with you.
Way too many bears
Humans fault 100%. All we do is destroy animals homes and build our own.
We took over their land what do you expect??? We kicked them out and we moved in...of course you're going to see them but stop complaining.... They are just hungry. We all go crazy when we are hungry!!!
Gives a whole new comprehension of the Revelation 6:8 verse.
Overly dominant plant species and lack of natural burn, combined with overpopulated white tail deer contribute to a reduction in natural bear foods. This reduction forces animals to get anything that is easy
But hunters will never complain about "overpopulated deer". They like not having to walk far from their car.
More common because too many people.