Cow Chases off a Bear!

I guess you just don't go around stealing Apple the Cow's apples! She will be nice n'all but there is a limit! :)

A cow named Apple confronts a bear climbing over a fence into her pasture after the bear had been found in an apple tree at 7691 Hygiene Road on Sunday afternoon. Courtesy Penny Cox

Cow chases bear off property Animals met nose-to-nose
By Scott Rochat, Longmont Times-Call

HYGIENE — A bear got into Nancy Dayton’s apple tree Sunday evening. Thankfully, her trusty cow was on watch.

Yes, cow.

According to Dayton’s renters on Hygiene Road, her cow Apple touched noses with the young black bear before finally chasing it off.
“That’s one tough heifer, let me tell you!” Dayton said, laughing.
“If we could have gotten it on video ....” said Jack McDonald, one of Dayton’s renters.
McDonald was the one who discovered the bear around 5 p.m. when he heard noise outside.

“The squirrels were doing their chattering, and I thought one of the cats had caught a bird,” he said. “So I went to the apple tree. And he’s there. And I’m here. I went to Penny (Cox, a neighboring renter) and said ‘It’s a bear! It’s a bear!’”
According to Cox and McDonald, the bear had started to roam a little when Apple approached from a neighboring field. The two animals stared at each other, the bear even climbing the fence so it could get a better look at Apple.

“After they touched noses, the cow chased the bear to the apple tree,” McDonald said. “They hung out by the apple tree for a while And then the cow chased him to the fence. It was hilarious.”
The bear fled down the fence line, still pursued by Apple.
It’s only the second time that a bear has come on the property since Dayton purchased it 14 years ago. The last time, about five or six years back, a black bear was treed by a tenant’s Rhodesian ridgeback dogs.
Damage was minimal, Dayton said — just some broken branches and a bit of disturbed garbage from when the bear rooted in the trash bin for a moment.

“He wasn’t at all aggressive or anything,” said Cox. “He was just being a bear.” via