Boxer saves children

A boxer named "Major" has beed credited with saving the lives of two children who were about to be attacked by a black bear.

The children were playing badminton at the Ligonier family cottage in Pennsylvania when the bear approached the children.

Major, the family's one-year-old boxer, ran circles around the children to protect them, then Major rushed the bear and bit it twice in the face and chased it away.



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