SPOKANE – Barking at bears, romping through the forest, sniffing for poaching evidence, getting petted by a child and maybe cooling off with a swim in the Pend Oreille River.

as an exposed tongue is more vulnerable to burns or frostbite. While some dogs naturally have tongues that hang out – and we know your best friends better than anyone – it’s important to ...

It’s all in a good day’s work for Jax, a 1-year-old Karelian ... the dogs are used for a hard release. “We prefer to release on site because it’s not good for a bear to be taken out ...

There are new ideas on how to keep bears wild and out of the harmful way ... tool — a very special kind of dog from Finland, known as the Karelian bear dog. I’ve come all the way to Montana ...

Please support the Channel by checking out my affiliate links!!! The Karelian Bear Dog (KBD) is a Finnish or Karelian breed of dog. In its home country, it is regarded as a national treasure. KBD will ...

When tracking a bear, Rooster can detect that scent from up to three miles away—but tracking isn't the reason he was brought out today ... Rooster is a Karelian bear dog, a breed originating ...

Nils Pedersen and his Karelian Bear ... and do patrols with the dogs in the back of the truck and they're sniffing out of the back of truck and barking when they sniff bear scent.

Bear expert Carrie Hunt is pleased with the schooling provided by her trained Karelian bear dogs. From Alaska to New Mexico, Hunt and her Karelians teach bears to avoid people. As writer Mark Derr ...