Get A Load Of This Guy With Giant Balls Who Punched A Bear In The Face To Rescue His Rescue Dog Named Buddy

CBS - A man’s Thanksgiving brawl ended up saving his best friend’s life.

Kaleb Bentham and his 90-pound pit bull “Buddy” spent Thanksgiving lying in bed, but they’re feeling more thankful than ever.

“Honestly the only thing I could think of was ‘save my baby,’” Bentham said.

It was a tale of survival, the day before Thanksgiving. Benham said Buddy was outside playing near his home off You Bet Road when something just didn’t sound right. Buddy had come face to face with a 350-pound bear.

“I heard a growl, looked about 75-100 feet down, and the bear was dragging him by his head, had his head in his mouth,” Benham said.

That horror sunk in but didn’t paralyze him.

“I just ran down there, plowed into the bear, tackled it and grabbed it by the throat and started hitting it in the face and the eye until it let go,” Benham said.

Then came the desperate dash to find a vet. The first place Benham tried, which was closest to his house, had been closed down due to a positive COVID-19 case.

“My first thought was that I was going to lose him,” Benham said.

But Mother Lode Veterinary Hospital was ready for surgery as soon as Benham got there. Buddy needed staples, stitches and tubes inserted into his head to drain fluid.

“I just stood there and watched through the window for 3 1/2 for hours,” Benham said.

And now Buddy is making a speedy recovery. But the bear is still out there and Benham said it won’t leave them alone. It’s been back to the house several times since the attack.

“It made an attack and had it’s food and it’s food got taken from it and it wants it back, I feel like,” he said.

Benham rescued Buddy from a shelter a few years ago and didn’t hesitate to rescue him again from a 350-pound bear.

“If it was your kid, what would you do. That’s my kid, I would die for my dog,” he said.

One of the worst things that can happen when you move into a place is finding out that it's haunted. We've all been there. Having to worry everytime you're in your place of refuge is no easy life. Now imagine instead of being haunted by a ghost, you're haunted by a 350 lb grizzly bear that is pissed off that you knocked his snack (your dog) right out of his mouth.

If I know bears like I think I do, they hold grudges like the best of them. 

Kaleb Benham is a marked man now. 

If you don't think this bear told his buddies about this and phoned in some favors you also don't know dick about bears.

Kaleb and Buddy need to keep their heads on swivels for the foreseeable future now. You might say that they need to kill a deer and leave it as a peace offering/sacrifice for the bear, but you'd be wrong. This bear wants a fresh kill. That's the whole point.

My suggestion?

String up a goat-like they did in Jurassic Park. 

Maybe make it 3 or 4 while you're at it. 

But in all seriousness, this guy is a bad bad man. I wanna say all of us dog owners would do the same for our best friends but bears are no joke. I think the only thing Kaleb had working in his favor here was the element of surprise. The bear was probably busy thinking in his mind of how he was going to prepare the dog for dinner when all of a sudden he got blindsided like he was coming across the middle on Steve Atwater

Plus, I'm willing to bet the bear had never been punched in the face. And as the great Iron Mike famously said - 

"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."

Bears included.