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Originally Posted by sammyg2
Get a male mastiff. About 225 lbs or so is the average weight but they get bigger than that.
Black bears don't like playing with mastiffs. They'll go somewhere else.
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True enough - they won't play. A black bear even half the size of that dog would kill it so fast you would never know what hit it. Granted, at first it might run, depending upon the individual, but when push comes to shove - the only reason the black bear will go somewhere else is because he's done eating this one.
Animals that "do it for a living" are far, far more formidable than domestic animals, no matter how big and impressive they look to us. I used to go out with a coworker who had a cousin that ran dogs for black bear and cougar (when it was still legal to do so up here). He lost at least a dog or two, sometimes more, every season to bears and cats. And these were "seasoned professionals", working in a pack. Blue Ticks, Plots, and stuff like that - bred for the purpose. Not "pets" by any stretch of the imagination. It wouldn't even be a contest with a big ol' clumsy pet dog.