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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

WEATHERFORD (CBSDFW.COM) - Investigators with the Parker County Sheriff's Office are searching for suspects who tortured and injured a pug-mix breed female dog ... tongue. Someone had pulled it ...

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 ...

They turned to Karelian bear dogs Rio and Soledad and their expert handler, Nils Pedersen, of Fairbanks.

And they are very fuzzy dogs who will lick your face if you ask. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife started the Karelian bear program about a decade ago and currently has five dogs ...

A black bear attacked a woman in Washington state Saturday near a downtown park as she was letting her dog out of her home ... who used a Karelian bear dog to track down the bear near the ...

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 ...