Oh wow! A bear? Holy smokes! I can’t believe a bear ran away from the dog. Lucky. So lucky. When you mentioned that, I quickly flashed back to when we lived in Arkansas and the time we happened on a rattlesnake. We were in our local municipal (?) park which apparently is 3rd largest park in the US, after Central Park and Golden Gate. There’s a lot of ‘wild’ space along with soccer fields and such. We of course liked the wild areas. My kid was quite a bit in front of me keeping up with a much younger Rufio, when I hear kid going bonkers. Rufio was in a stand-off with the rattlesnake and Ethan couldn’t get Rufio to come to him. Miracle of miracles, when I got to them, Rufio was going back to Ethan and the snake settled down. I couldn’t believe it, but we got right off the trail and practically scaled the cliff to get away. Then there was the time he got sideswiped by a skunk. Not a full blast of skunky, but enough. Oh boy, I kind of ‘repressed’ those memories. :)