Barry "Bear" Siragusa hales from the great state of Maine. Although raised in a non-hunting household, Bear had an early passion for dogs. At the age of ten he became interested in sled dogs and by the age of twelve had his own team. Bear guided dog sledding tours, canoe trips and backpacking trips in Maine, and glacial dog mushing trips in Alaska, until he met his wife Kaia moved to her home country of Norway. Fast forward over a decade and Bear is still a dog musher, and now a father, writer, editor, podcaster, hunter and houndsman. Bear runs foxhounds, and has just bought his first big game hound. Double U Hunting Supply and Bear created a podcast together The Hunting Hound Podcast that airs on The Double U Hound Podcast feed on I-tunes, Google Podcast, Spotify, and everywhere podcasts are available.

Pictured is Bear and Russian Hound Buzz before he became a hunting area clearing badass fox hound