Bear somehow ignores traps baited with doughnuts and beer

(UPI) -- A bear on the loose near Long Beach Peninsula in Washington state has somehow resisted traps that state Fish and Wildlife Department employees baited with doughnuts and beer.

Wildlife officials are anxious to capture and kill the bear after it bit a woman and killed her dog last Friday.

The bear was trying to get into a garbage can when the woman let her pet schnauzer outside off leash. The bear killed the dog and then bit the woman on the waist as she tried to drive it off with a broom.

Four officers responded with a Karelian bear dog, but the ground was too wet and too much time had passed for the animal to pick up the bear’s scent.

The department's deputy police chief, Mike Cenci, said that the traps will be left out through the weekend.

“She was between him and freedom,” Cenci said of the woman who was bit. “She was in the way. We can only guess, but no doubt the dog and bear came nose to nose, and the bear killed the dog.”

Cenci reiterated that the animal will be killed. “I’m not taking a chance of the bear taking it to the next level,” Cenci said.