A plucky teenager shoved a mother bear off a wall at her Los Angeles home when the bear, which was walking along the top of the wall with two cubs, swatted at and grabbed one of the girl’s small dogs.
“The bear was protecting her cubs, she was reacting to protect her cubs, and the dogs of course were reacting to protect their territory,” Rebecca Barboza, a wildlife biologist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife told NBC News.
The video of the incident has gone viral.