via CB Ginger Cat Trees Bear

"Giovanetti thought Jack was simply looking up at the bear, but soon realized the much larger animal was afraid of the hissing cat.

After about 15 minutes, the bear descended and tried to run away, but Jack chased it up another tree.

Dickey, who feared for her cat, then called Jack home and the bear scurried back to the woods.

"He doesn't want anybody in his yard," Dickey said."

Our late black & white Frog was similarly territorial, regularly chasing very big dogs off the property sans ceremony--clear memory of the face and saucer eyes of an unholy pug suddenly remembering an urgent appointment elsewhere, tippytoeing backwards...