Woman saves her husband from attacking bear by hitting the cub with gun because she didn't know how to load it
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A Wisconsin woman saved her husband’s life after she hit the black bear that was attacking him over the head with a gun.
Marie Ninnemann didn’t know how to load or fire the gun, but she instinctively used it to protect her husband after he was mauled by the one-year-old bear cub outside of his cabin near Silver Cliff, Wisconsin.
The incident occurred last Wednesday and initially Gerre Ninnemann saw the bear go for his eight-year-old yellow Labrador, Maddy.
While trapped in their cabin, Gerre and Marie Ninnemann took this picture of the one-year-old bear cub that was terrorizing them
To save his pet, Ninnemann attempted to distract the bear but that only prompted it to start chasing him, biting and clawing at his back.
‘I came running out into the yard here, shouting, waving my arms at the bear, thinking that would scare him away,’ he told Fox 11.
‘But it didn’t. All it did was leave the dog and come right for me.’
When wife Marie realized what was going-on, she grabbed a shotgun and some shells.
But not knowing how to load a gun she instead used it to beat the bear. This bought her husband some valuable seconds and he was able to move away from the animal.
The couple then backtracked into the cabin with the gun pointed at the bear and called the local sheriff’s department.
Gerre Ninnemann show the gun that his wife Marie saved his life with
To save his dog, Gerre Ninnemann attempted to distract the bear but only prompted it to start chasing him, biting and clawing at his back
The couple then had to wait 45 minutes for the cops to arrive, while the bear circled their cabin and looked into its windows.
When a sheriff's deputy finally arrived he shot the bear with one bullet as it approached him.
Ninneman suffered bite marks from his waist to the back of his head and required staples to close some wounds. He was hospitalized but is expected to recover, as is the couple's dog.
The bear, meanwhile, was being checked for rabies in Madison during a necropsy to determine what may have prompted the attack, Department of Natural Resources supervisor John Huff said.
Bear attacks are extremely rare in the area. There have only been a few attacks in Wisconsin in recent decades.
Ninneman said he’ll now teach his wife how to properly load and fire a shotgun. ‘I owe her my life,’ he said.
Eight-year-old yellow Labrador Maddy was the first member of the family to be attacked by the bear
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