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Wife Can't Load Shotgun, Clubs Bear to Help Husband Escape Attack

Husband says he will teach wife how to load, fire a shotgun

A Wisconsin woman Marie Ninnemann saved her husband Gerre Ninnemann from a bear attack using a shotgun as a club, Fox 11 of Green Bay, Wisconsin reports:

"I came running out into the yard here, shouting, waving my arms at the bear, thinking that would care him away," the retired financial planner told the station. "But it didn’t. All it did was leave the dog and come right for me."

Ninnemann briefly escaped and ran to the corner of the cabin, but the bear mauled him again. Ninnemann's wife, Marie, then found a shotgun in the cabin’s basement, but she didn’t know how to load it properly. She instead took the weapon outside the struck the bear on its head, allowing her husband to escape. The couple then backtracked into the cabin with the gun pointed at the bear.

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The bear, which was only a year old, then continued to circle the cabin and looked into its windows. A responding deputy later shot and killed the animal with "one shot," Gerre Ninneman said.

Ninneman suffered bite marks from his waist to the back of his head and required staples to close some wounds. He was hospitalized but is expected to recover, as is the couple's dog.

Ninneman said he was grateful for his wife's help and will teach her to how to properly load and fire a shotgun.