These big dogs can only overcome such foes by rushing in in a body and grappling all together; if they hang back, lunging and snapping, a cougar or bear will destroy them one by one.

With a quarry so huge and redoubtable as the grisly, no number of dogs, however large and fierce, could overcome him unless they all rushed on him in a mass, the first in the charge seizing by the head or throat.

If the dogs hung back, or if there were only a few of them, or if they did not seize around the head, they would be destroyed without an effort.

It is murder to slip merely one or two close-quarter dogs at a grisly.

Twice I have known a man take a large bulldog with his pack when after one of these big bears, and in each case the result was the same.