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Wife who can't load shotgun uses it to club bear attacking him
Published May 17, 2013
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“Now the bear is right at the front door and at the windows,” Gerre Ninneman said.
The bear, which was only a year old, then continued to circle the cabin and looked into its windows. A responding deputy later shot and killed the animal with "one shot," Gerre Ninneman said.
Ninneman suffered bite marks from his waist to the back of his head and required staples to close some wounds. He was hospitalized but is expected to recover, as is the couple's dog.
The bear, meanwhile, was being checked for rabies in Madison during a necropsy to determine what may have prompted the attack, Department of Natural Resources supervisor John Huff said.
“Generally, bears avoid encounters,” Huff told the station. “We’re not really sure why the bear made the decision it did. It was a bad decision.”
Bear attacks are extremely rare in the area. There have only been a few attacks in Wisconsin in recent decades, Huff told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Ninneman said he’ll now teach his wife how to properly load and fire a shotgun.
“I owe her my life,” he said.
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Published May 17, 2013
FoxNews.com
“Now the bear is right at the front door and at the windows,” Gerre Ninneman said.
The bear, which was only a year old, then continued to circle the cabin and looked into its windows. A responding deputy later shot and killed the animal with "one shot," Gerre Ninneman said.
Ninneman suffered bite marks from his waist to the back of his head and required staples to close some wounds. He was hospitalized but is expected to recover, as is the couple's dog.
The bear, meanwhile, was being checked for rabies in Madison during a necropsy to determine what may have prompted the attack, Department of Natural Resources supervisor John Huff said.
“Generally, bears avoid encounters,” Huff told the station. “We’re not really sure why the bear made the decision it did. It was a bad decision.”
Bear attacks are extremely rare in the area. There have only been a few attacks in Wisconsin in recent decades, Huff told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Ninneman said he’ll now teach his wife how to properly load and fire a shotgun.
“I owe her my life,” he said.
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