Sounds like it was about 1 in a trillion chance of what happened happening.

To me there would be no use owning a dog if every step you took outside of your house you had to leash it or tie it to something. We fish with our dogs all the time and let our dogs play outside with each other at a number of different places and all in semi remote bear country and have never had an incident. We know bears are present and come around at night because we see the prints in the mornings.

I don't think this couple made a mistake it was just a freak incident which rarely if ever happens. We have had black bear break into homes here in NM and kill at least one person for no reason.

I guess their mistake was cooking up some tasty food...?