Kate Cholewa’s 12-year-old Black Lab mix, Carmen, may have saved her life.
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When a Montana woman found herself face-to-face with a bear on the banks of the Yellowstone River, she didn’t even have time to react. “I just saw it and I was on the ground,” she said. “I was thinking, ‘I’m dead.'” Lucky for her, however, her 12-year-old Black Lab mix, Carmen, confronted the beast and caused it to back off.