Pennsylvania woman saw a bear jump a fence before it attacked and thought, 'This is it — I’m going to die'
A Pennsylvania woman who was attacked by a bear while she let her dog out said it's a miracle she survived the backyard encounter Tuesday night.
A Pennsylvania woman who was attacked by a bear while she let her dog out said it's a miracle she survived the backyard encounter Tuesday night.
"I just kept thinking: 'I can't believe this is happening. This can't be happening. I'm being attacked by a bear,'" Lee Ann Galante, 55, said Wednesday from Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. "I thought, 'This is it — I'm going to die.'"
Galante said that before the attack, her neighbors in Butler Township had captured a mother bear and her cubs on their home cameras and that the animals had gotten into her bird feeder. But it had been weeks since anyone had seen the bears, she said.
And then, on Tuesday, Galante got an extremely close look at a black bear.
Galante was home alone with her beloved Pomeranian, Smokie, and went outside with the 8-pound dog. She said she heard Smokie causing a commotion, looked over and saw the silhouette of three sizeable bear cubs in a neighbor's tree.
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