Guest column: I charged a bear

In August I met a bear.Here is exactly what happened.
A mother bear with her cub and I with my pups, Skye and Jo, met in the forest in North Cowichan on a well-trodden path near a carcass that the bears had been eating.We didn’t see each other until the last moment. My Shetland sheepdogs were a few feet ahead of me. They trotted over the lift of the hill. The cub must have smelled us before we saw it. Suddenly, silently, Skye and Jo took off. I looked up in surprise and saw the cub climbin