A Grizzly Discovery

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This book is for Jeanie, one of the most important black bears in the history of Whistler, Canada. Thanks to Jeanie we now have a better understanding of black bears. She was a true ambassador for her kind.

1

The lab puppy in front of me was definitely not having a good day.

Keegan was seven months old, pure black, and right now, his face was swollen to about three times its normal size. He looked at me with his sad, deep brown eyes.

“Everything feels funny,” he whined at me.

“Yeah, you’re not feeling that great today, are you little guy?” I asked in a sing-song voice. My name is Angela Martin, and I’m a witch who can talk to animals. It comes in pretty handy in my profession, as I’m the resident vet in Willow Bay, a small town on the Oregon coast. Unfortunately, when the dog’s owner is standing three feet away from me, it’s harder for me to have an actual conversation with the patient.

I stood up and looked at Anne Peters, Keegan’s owner. She was in her mid-forties, with brown hair and a friendly—if worried—face. “He’s going to be fine,” I told her. “At this time of year, when the weather starts to get a bit cooler, the bees start trying to find warmer places to stay. A bee likely got into your home, and I imagine Keegan found him. I don’t see anything to indicate this could be an infection or anything of the sort. We can give him a Benadryl and he’ll sleep away the afternoon and be fine by tomorrow morning.”

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