I dunno about that. We had 6 feist we were running one day, come up on a decent sized black bear. Those little dogs weren't backing down either. They wanted some of that bear. We managed to call em back before anything happened though. It was quite scary. Especially, since according to Alabama's wonderful DNR there are only 6 bears supposedly in the state. So its a felony to shoot one. To hell with the fact people see hundreds of them all over the state.
If that dogs whining like you say then something is wrong. That's either one helluva a bear or you got something else going on. I still say get on the roof with a rifle and blow a hole through its chest, whatever it is.
d**n I wanna drive to Georgia so bad now....