Had a friend mauled by a brownie a couple years ago near Cordova, Alaska. Similar to this attack, but no cub involved. She took her dog and a friend's Karelian bear dog hiking on a popular trail that follows a productive salmon stream. The friend's dog ran out of sight, the came running back with a bear on it's tail. It knocked her down and grabbed her and shook her then walked off. She thought it was done and started to get up and it turned around and saw her and attacked again. Again it started walking off and she went to get up and it turned back and mauled her again. Ghis time she waited to make sure it was gone, then she walked back to her vehicle and drove herself to the emergency room where they stabilized her and medivaced her to Anchorage. She lost a good chunk of flesh from her shoulder and from a thigh.
Another friend from Hoonah. Alaska when I worked there, was out duck and goose hunting with his lab and came home and opened the door and out jumped his dog and it ran around his house as he was unloading gear. He heard some snarling and threw a shell in his shotgun as his dog raced around his house and through his legs with a brownie in pursuit. He shot it in the face and it ran off and was tracked down by Fish and Game and others and finished off.
Dogs are not always your friend when bears are involved. They will engage, then run back to the human when things get hot. By then the bear has his dander up which is never a good thing.
