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.

Originating from Scandinavia and formalized as a breed in 1946, Karelian ... 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The adult female black bear attacked ... she let her dog out on Saturday morning, according to the release. She is currently being treated at a local hospital. Police used a Karelian bear dog ...

The woman had let out her dog at around 7 a.m. when an adult ... Wildlife officers using a Karelian bear dog found and killed a sow later that morning. Two cubs, about 9 months old, "captured ...