Animal 411
Family Dog Alerts New Canaan Man to Black Bear on Rear Porch Late Saturday
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A Marvin Ridge Road man is crediting his 7-year-old rescued pit bull with scaring off an estimated 250-pound black bear that had made its way onto a screened-in porch out back of the house Saturday night. Craig Hunt said he was watching the end of the Michigan State-Duke game (a disappointing one for Hunt, a Spartans fan with several relatives who have attended the East Lansing, Mich. school) when he heard a loud noise from beyond the kitchen. “I was thinking a tree fell,” Hunt said hours after the incident. Opening the kitchen door to a darkened screened-in porch where he’d been grilling earlier in the evening, Hunt sensed straightaway that something was amiss—and so did Buddy, a handsome pit bull he adopted about five years ago through Bully Breed Rescue of New Canaan.