Mom, 24, who was nearly mauled to death by an eight-foot grizzly bear narrowly survives thanks to her HAIR CLIP

A mom who was astir mauled to decease by an eight-foot grizzly carnivore while jogging narrowly survived acknowledgment to her hairsbreadth clip.

Vanessa Chaput, 24, was astir halfway done her tally connected nan Trans Canada Trail successful nan Yukon connected June 30 pinch her German Shepherd Nina erstwhile she stumbled connected a group of 4 bears.

She instantly attempted to backmost distant without being seen - but, to her horror, her canine began chasing nan 3 female grizzly bears.

Threatened, nan eight-foot antheral carnivore past began charging towards nan terrified family support worker.

In specified moments, it was abruptly mauling her backmost pinch its claws and spot her forearm truthful difficult that it collapsed nan bone. 

Determined to enactment live for her two-year-old girl and hubby Dave Leegstra, Vanessa tried to play dead, lying still and silent arsenic nan grizzly continued to excavation its claws into her back.

The carnivore only halted its onslaught erstwhile chomping connected Vanessa's hairsbreadth clip, which shattered and wounded its rima - causing it to momentarily merchandise her caput from its jaws.

The grizzly was past further distracted from its onslaught erstwhile Nina began barking from afar.

This gave Vanessa conscionable capable clip to get distant from nan bear, and locomotion retired of nan woods and onto nan road wherever she rang her hubby for help.

Vanessa was rushed to infirmary aft suffering extended injuries from nan attack, including her surgery correct limb and puncture wounds crossed her body.

'Where I was running, it was beautiful overgrown successful 1 area and arsenic I was running, I came crossed a group of bears wrong 15 feet of me', she recalled.

'You tin tally into bears successful Yukon, but I've ne'er tally into 4 bears for illustration this before. It was nerve-wracking.

'The first point I retrieve reasoning was I request to get retired location and put abstraction betwixt us.

'I was trying to backmost distant erstwhile I spotted them, but my canine Nina saw them and started chasing nan female bears.

'The antheral carnivore past started charging towards maine and I was trying to locomotion distant and put a character aliases thing betwixt us. But conscionable earlier I sewage to nan tree, his rima went consecutive onto my caput and I went down onto nan ground.'

Vanessa said nan onslaught pinch nan eight-foot carnivore lasted a fewer minutes earlier she was capable to scramble to information acknowledgment to an unexpected savior successful nan shape of her hairsbreadth accessory.

'I knew I wasn't fresh to time off my girl and hubby and knew I had to conflict for them,' she explained.

'I conscionable retrieve nan carnivore biting my limb and I could conscionable consciousness its claws digging into my back,' she continued.

'I was trying to get done it without screaming. I wasn't screaming while it was attacking me.

'He spot onto my caput and I had a hairsbreadth clip and it collapsed successful its rima and I don't deliberation he liked that truthful he fto spell of my caput past ran crossed nan way but past he stopped, turned astir and started charging towards maine again.

'He past took disconnected towards wherever my canine was barking truthful her barking really saved my life.

'It gave maine a infinitesimal to conscionable locomotion from wherever I was onto nan road wherever I was capable to telephone my hubby past I called 911. My canine spotted maine and ran towards me.'

Vanessa was rushed to infirmary wherever she received much than 30 stitches for her wound wounds connected her precocious limb and caput earlier being treated for a surgery arm, puncture wounds and claw marks each complete her back.

After 10 days successful hospital, nan mom was capable to return location - and feels highly fortunate to beryllium live aft her adjacent brushwood pinch death. 

'I consciousness very thankful. I don't consciousness huffy astatine nan grizzly carnivore aliases my dog. Bears are everyplace successful nan Yukon - you can't debar them,' she emphasized.

'I person a bully knowing of bears and what they do which I deliberation is simply a large logic why I survived. I didn't shriek aliases tally because that tin trigger a much fierce attack.

'It was a much territorial onslaught because location was a sow pinch him who was ovulating and [bears] tin beryllium very fierce during mating season. He was already amped up. It was conscionable a bad mixture. I was successful nan incorrect spot astatine nan incorrect time.

'We've had bears successful our backyard earlier but this is nan first clip I've encountered them this closely. I consciousness very thankful to beryllium alive. It's very uncommon for personification to really past a grizzly attack. I dream my communicative tin thief prevention someone's life 1 day,' she added.

'Don't run, locomotion and decidedly don't shriek because it will trigger an onslaught and don't make oculus contact.'

It is estimated that location are betwixt 6,000 and 7,000 grizzly bears, also known arsenic North American brownish bears, successful nan Yukon, a sparsely populated territory successful nan northwest portion of Canada that spans astir 190,000 quadrate miles.

For comparison, nan quality organization of nan Yukon is astir 45,000. 

Vanessa's friend has launched a fundraising page to thief her while she recovers from her injuries.