Bam used to be afraid of his own shadow.
The pit bull came to the Prince George BC SPCA shelter as a stray a few months ago.
“When we got him, he was terrified of everything,” says BC SPCA North Cariboo District Branch manager Angela McLaren. “It took a staff member two days to get Bam brave enough to leave his kennel.”
Bam went home with Brock and Toni Schell, BC SPCA pet foster parents who live in Beaverly, just outside the city limit. They loved him so much they adopted him. He also gets on so well with their other rescue dog, Tinka, a hound cross.
Now the couple are certainly glad they did adopt Bam.
Brock says he has lived in Beaverly for 10 years and has never seen a cougar. However, after a big snowfall in early December, Brock got the shock of his life when he was shovelling snow.
“It all happened so fast. It took seconds,” says Brock, describing how he was shovelling snow, his toque on and hood up, moving away from the house and down the driveway on a dark December night.
Realizing a large cougar was between himself and his house, Brock started backing away, taking refuge at the side of his truck. Bam growled and barked loudly, distracting the cougar enough, thinks Brock, for Tinka to come around the corner and bay at the cougar. At that moment Toni came home and pulled into the driveway in her car.
The cougar quickly disappeared.
Looking back Brock wonders if the cougar was perhaps, targeting Bam. Either way, he’s grateful he wasn’t shovelling the snow alone.“If Bam hadn’t been there, or if I had been by myself, or if Tinka and Toni didn’t show up when they did, I have no idea how that would have played out,” says Brock.
The BC SPCA is a non-profit organization funded primarily by public donations.
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