When a Minnesota woman saw a bear chasing her dog, Zeus, in her driveway, she didn’t hesitate to instinctively run after the bear and her dog.
In a heart-pounding moment caught on home security camera, Bailey Jacobson was seen running screaming back to her Maple Grove home after being “charged” by the bear.
“Obviously, I was terrified,” Jacobson said. Fox 9 Earlier this month, the couple came across three bears scavenging outside her house.
She cried out, and the two smaller bears ran back into the forest, but the bigger bear chased Zeus back down the road.
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Bailey Jacobson chases a bear that is chasing her dog. (Bailey Jacobson via Storyful)
“I’m glad Zeus decided to get away,” Jacobson, who is seen chasing the pair in the video, told the station.
“Not even the bear could stop me from trying to save my dog,” Jacobson wrote in a video posted to social media, adding, “Thank goodness @oofos my shoes held on while I was running from the bear.”
Jacobson tried to lead his dog away from the bears, who were scavenging in the garbage and out of sight behind a pickup truck, before one of the bears began chasing the dog. (Bailey Jacobson via Storyful)
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Jacobson told the station that Zeus outran the bear as the dog rounded a corner, and that’s when the bear started chasing her.
Jacobson said the bear jumped on him and he ran down the driveway. (Bailey Jacobson via Storyful)
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“The bear definitely charged at me. I was about 35 to 40 feet away from the bear. And I thought, ‘Yeah, I’ve got to run too.’ So it was definitely a product of a double brain, Zeus running and me running.”
Jacobson, Zeus and the bears were all uninjured.
