The mother bear was standing guard over three cubs that had been captured in a live trap placed in Tracy Tezak’s yard, where a dog had been attacked four days earlier.
“The sow was outside the trap, and the three cubs were caught inside the trap. So, the conservation officers dispatched the sow,” said Martha Minchak, an assistant wildlife manager for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.
She said the animal, which weighed an estimated 150 to 200 pounds, will be transported to an animal health lab in the Twin Cities for a necropsy “to find out if she had any underlying health issues that caused her aggressive behavior, but we’re thinking she was just being defensive for the cubs.”
Meanwhile, the cubs were transported to the Garrison Animal…
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