Polar Bears are hunters for live prey. They can't help that. That is what they are. Wild bears are not meant to be placated with gifts of food from humans and expected to be teddy bears thereafter, and fit into our ideas of how to view the world. Sure the bears were probably not interested in eating the dogs when they had their bellies full, but it really is a situation of human interference.
I am not saying there might have been genuine situations where bears played with dogs -no doubt when they were so glutted with food they didn't need to eat the dogs. But it would probably be a rare instance and to push that is foolish.
He was trying to create a tourist attraction by the sounds of it, and risking his dogs. No proper outdoorsman in that sort of environment would risk his dogs. At the very least, they are his most valuable asset and means of transport in inhospitable places.
I surely hope the bears don't suffer for this too. They have become accustomed now to seeing human habitation as a food source.
I am not saying there might have been genuine situations where bears played with dogs -no doubt when they were so glutted with food they didn't need to eat the dogs. But it would probably be a rare instance and to push that is foolish.
He was trying to create a tourist attraction by the sounds of it, and risking his dogs. No proper outdoorsman in that sort of environment would risk his dogs. At the very least, they are his most valuable asset and means of transport in inhospitable places.
I surely hope the bears don't suffer for this too. They have become accustomed now to seeing human habitation as a food source.
