The 39-year-old woman was found Friday night by her boyfriend, who went searching for her when he discovered the two dogs alone outside their home in Durango, in southwestern Colorado, Colorado Parks and Wildlife said in a statement Saturday
A Colorado woman out walking her dogs died of a suspected bear attack, officials said.
Responding wildlife officers "observed signs of consumption on the body and an abundance of bear scat and hair at the scene," Colorado Parks and Wildlife said in a statement.A dog team from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services also searched the area and found a female black bear with two young bears nearby. The bears were euthanized "out of an abundance of caution," the agency said.
The Colorado Parks and Wildlife's Wildlife Health Lab in Fort Collins will also perform a necropsy on the three bears, officials said. DNA evidence from the bears and the scene will be sent for testing to the Wyoming Game and Fish Wildlife Forensic & Fish Health Laboratory.Wildlife officers are still investigating the scene to corroborate a wildlife attack.