We suddenly heard the dog barking while I was down at the basement looking for an electrical wire and my wife was doing the laundry. We thought a stranger strayed in the grounds.

When we checked, we saw a hungry bear trying to snatch off our dog’s lunch. They were having some sort of tug-of-war going on between them.

We were on an outdoor weekend trip in this cottage in the woods. We had come in from the city a few days ago. We half-expected this thing to happen because of the many stories we heard from our friends.

Of course, we had prepared a bear spray device but using it with a real bear, face to face, is another story. Our friends said that we need not worry because bear repellents are really effective in shooing away these big animals.

We searched the internet for the right bear repellents to use weeks before we made our trip. The Mace Bear Repellent Spray is the first one that we saw. We thought that this bear spray is great because its Magnum Fogger can spray up to 30 feet.

Then, we considered another bear spray, the Guard Alaska Bear Repellent. The advantage of this one is that it can repel all species of bears. That is one consideration that is vital for us because we really do not know what types of bears we are going to encounter.

That was good to know because we do not know what types of bears are roaming in these woods. Aside from that, the catalog said that this is the most effective and powerful bear spray in the market today.

Finally, after all the bear repellents that we looked into, we settled for the Guard Alaska Bear Repellent. We have proven its effectiveness because when we sprayed it to the bear, even at a distance of 15 feet, we saw that he felt the burning heat of the hot pepper in his eyes and face. He quickly ran away and we never saw him again.

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