First of all, yes, she is alive. Second of all, yes, she is stupid. I don’t know who thinks socking a bear in the nose is a smart thing, but for some reason, she did, AND she got away with it.

Brooke Collins heard her dachshund, Fudge, screaming from outside on Sunday night and (obviously) ran outside to see what her dog was yelping about. Seeing as they were in Juneau, Alaska, it was highly likely that the cause was a bear. Although, bears don’t normally attack dogs, so she wasn’t really expecting that. Collins, only 22, took action immediately and started to run towards Fudge who was being held by the black bear, much like they would hold a salmon they were about to eat.

‘It had her kind of like when they eat salmon,’ Miss Collins said yesterday. ‘I was freaking out. I was screaming at it. My dog was screaming.

‘I ran up to it … I just punched it right in the snout and it let go.’