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 ...

The author joins a group of hunters on horseback who let loose their dogs in search of a cow-killing black bear in Idaho.

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 ...