Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of a bear biting the hand of a West Virginia houndsman. Philip Propst couldn’t see his dogs or the bear they’d ...

A California ban on the use of hounds in bear hunting had a dramatic impact this past year -- the number of bears killed fell sharply. This follows a heated battle in the state legislature between ...

In a peculiar twist of fate last week in northern Wisconsin, six dogs that were chasing after bears for hunters were attacked and killed by wolves. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources ...

Six bear hunting dogs were killed in Langlade County over the weekend of September 26–27. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources confirmed the deaths in three separate wolf attacks, two near ...

Boomer, an 8-year-old treeing walker coonhound, is one of Tennessee hunter James Tyree’s 13 hounds. And in late August, while tracking black bears in northwestern Ontario, Boomer fell off a cliff and ...

After a black bear slashed a Connecticut man’s chest as he was walking his dog in North Canaan last week, the debate over bear hunting in the state once again heats up. Officials with the state’s ...