Man’s best friend came to the rescue on the Fourth of July, protecting a small child who was nearly the victim of a black bear attack.
Jeffrey Tazzara’s son was in the driveway that Saturday when his security camera captured the bear charging at the 6-year-old. The Connecticut home became a battleground when the family’s husky mix Bella rushed over, putting distance between the child and the bear.
Tazzara was packing for a party that evening when Bella started barking. “A vicious bark, not like she barks and yips and howls and stuff … this was a different kind of bark,” he noted.
He witnessed Bella chasing the bear.
“Bella finally caught up to the bear, like right in the middle of the driveway, and she bit it in the rear end, and the bear ended up crashing into my boat, and then I think [it] scurried under the boat and then through the back between the houses and into the woods.”
Tazzara said he plans on rewarding Bella with a steak for this heroic deed, according to ABC News.
WABC-TV ran a news segment on the incident, including footage of the moment.
