Family Uses Drone to Find Missing Dog: It Was Mingling With Bears

There’s something to this whole algorithm thing. Search for a weed-eater on Google and your Instagram feed is instantly clogged with RYOBI ads. Great. The world we’re livin’ in, right? Similarly, I got a new dog recently. I call her my mid-life crisis pup. I thought it was a good idea to get a pooch before my kids were too big so they could experience raising a dog. Two things happened.

I realized the kids will never, ever raise the dog. And two, my social media channels are now stuffed with canines sneakily eating pizza off tables or puppies licking small children into submission. Cute and all, but…

However, there are a few interesting nuggets that come across one’s feed who has spent too many moments staring at dog videos. Like this drone footage that a family in Russia apparently released of their husky fraternizing with bears. Really big bears – as in brown bears in Russia, grizzlies anywhere in the Lower 48.

The footage is undated but it has made serious rounds in recent weeks, racking up millions (upon millions) of views on social media between Instagram and YouTube.

Reportedly (albeit lightly), a family on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Eastern Russia (a stone’s throw from Alaska) deployed the drone to find the missing pooch. What they found was a dog completely annoying three bears with its boundless energy. I know the feeling. Goldy Locks had definitely found her people.

The video became an instant meme, with different social handles doing the usual: pulling the footage and creating social nuggets. One of my favorites can be found here. No details on how they were able to get the pup to come home. Always a bit of an issue at our house, too.

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