My son lives in WV and has a German Shorthaired Pointer that's around a year old. Last night he calls and I can tell by his voice that he's upset. He tells me that he has Greyson in the car and is on the way to the vet. They live out in the country and on a hike Greyson was attacked by a black bear. I couldn't believe what I was hearing & asked him to repeat what he just said. Long story short Greyson got lucky! Actually everyone (humans, too) got very lucky that they were able to scare the bear off. He has several large bites on his behind and backs of his legs. But because the vet said that bear bites can get infected really fast they decided to not do stitches and keep the wounds opened. They put him on some really high powered antibiotics. But, I sure that he will be sore for quite some time.