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The Wild Side « P.39 recommended she be euthanized after a lot better off now than we were five her cubs broke into a home. years ago, especially in that area, as far Nearly 10,000 people signed a petition as people knowing how to coexist with to save Mink, and New Hampshire Gov. bears … Hopefully, the attention that Chris Sununu stepped in and offered to Mink has brought and the lessons that work out an alternative solution with Mink has taught will make things better wildlife officials, according to New for the bears that are there.” Hampshire Public Radio. In 2018, Mink was relocated to the remote northern part Baylor the dog, of the state. But, by the summer of 2019, Stowe she’d trekked hundreds of miles back to Vermont’s best-known golden retrievers the Hanover area. made a mountain their stage. Sampson “We don’t really know why bears can and Baylor hiked Stowe Pinnacle Trail home so well, but they’re very good at every day by themselves, greeting and it,” said Andrew Timmons, bear project accompanying hikers. Their owner, Perry leader at the fish and game department. Schafer, lives near the trailhead; he told Mink and Hanover had a tumultuous media outlets that he couldn’t stop the history. According to dogs from escaping the house and rumor, a resident had fed her deliberately, hiking the trail. after which the bear Sampson and became accustomed Baylor were large, to snacking from bird mild-mannered, feeders and dumpsometimes smelly sters. Some people and always ready loved her; others to make friends. thought she was a Hikers could hear AY N S L EY F L OY D nuisance. them coming by But summer 2020 was relatively the gentle clank of the cowbells that hung uneventful, bear-wise, until Mink was from their collars. They were seen dozing found dead in August. Timmons said for hours on the Pinnacle summit. the cause of death wasn’t clear: She Massachusetts-based filmmaker and might have been hit by a vehicle or have photographer Aynsley Floyd met Sampsuccumbed to natural causes. son and Baylor on a trip to Stowe and Two of Mink’s three cubs from the was enchanted. During the fall of 2019, 2020 season were caught and taken to she hiked the trail with the dogs four a rehabilitation facility. In any given times to make a short film called “The summer, Timmons said, the Hanover area Mountain Dogs,” documenting the dogs’ hosts 10 to 15 bears, many of them likely treks and the enthusiastic reactions of related to Mink. those who encountered them. (Watch it “She became the poster child of the at newenglandfilm.com.) need for people to be responsible with “They’re sort of local celebrities,” food attractants,” Timmons said. “We’re Floyd said. “Several of the people I talked
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