Serge Guitard, a life-long fur trapper, has had some close calls with wildlife in New Brunswick forests, but nothing quite like the recent experience he had with a black bear while picking blueberries.
Serge Guitard used small knife to defend himself, received 80 stitches to head and body
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Trapper Serge Guitard spends his days in the woods and has several hunting trophies in his home. (Rachel Gauvin/Radio-Canada)
Serge Guitard has spent his entire life getting to know the New Brunswick forests around his home in Pointe-Verte, near Bathurst, and the animals that call it home.
As a life-long fur trapper, he’s had some close calls with wildlife, but nothing quite like the recent experience he had with a black bear while picking blueberries.
Guitard said he suddenly spotted the bear too close for comfort.
“Two seconds later that bear charged me,” he said. “And when he started to hit me and hit me, I squeezed my head very tight on his chest … protecting my face.”
Guitard said he was bitten, scratched, knocked down and dragged around by the bear. But when he remembered the small knife he carried with him,
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