“Define ‘small’...................”
Could tell from the paw prints. WAY bigger than any dog I’ve ever seen, but not 6” to 8” like the other bear prints we have had.
I live in Montana and saw a bear on a golf course in Minnesota once. The guy I was with was scared: ‘It’s a bear!’ It was the size of a black lab. We grow bigger bear here than Minnesota.
Biggest bears (plural) I’ve ever seen were Alaskan Brown bears. Got to see them very close up!
We get bears here in Florida, black bears, pretty big ones.................
Bears down in Florida look like really big dogs, too.
Doesn’t make ‘em less dangerous, though. They are waaaaay to used to humans.