D-List dude had this on and I stared at it for a long time. I realized if I looked at it that long, I must have something to say about it. Brutus lives with naturalist Casey Anderson and his wife. They met when Brutus was a cub. Casey says Brutus would never attack a human, and he's probably right. You'd have to spend and awful lot of time with that bear to be sure of that though. I love bears, I am just fascinated by bears and I always have been. They are one of my favorite animals. I've been lucky to see a few in the wild, mostly their ass running away from me, but, hey, it was still bears! Crabbie sees bears quite frequently where he lives (getting too personal there, huu?) He watches them from his car. I wish he'd take pictures for me. He knows I'm jealous because he has bears there. I believe we have a few in Iowa, but, they're rare.*
I've raised hundreds of orphaned raccoons, they're Ursa's Minor, small bears. They are genetically programed to turn on you when they get older. It's how they're made inside and you have to be prepared for that. But, not all of them do. Some oddballs don't mature sexually and they stay sweet all their life. I wonder if bears are like that sometimes? I don't know. I've only known one bear personally, he was a large black bear who was actually brown and I thought he was mistreated and I decided to take him home with me. What a fiasco that was. So I guess my question is...would you ever trust a bear around your family? Do you think it's possible to live with a Grizzly?? Anyone out there have any real bear experience? I think I'll stare at that picture some more..I like his face.
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I have the itchiest vagina today and white slimy stuff in my underwear, anyone have any idea what could be going on "down there" ??
Whoops! My bad, I posted on the wrong site, I thought I was on that STD blog that Cut On The Diagonal started.
I would not trust any animal that is or doubles my size, period. It don't matter how sweet and loving you tell me they are. I don't believe wild animals make good pets, they will always be wild.
Speaking of wild animals, last night I was watching a local evening show and they were showing a bald eagle that had been shot on the beak......thus breaking it....it was heartbreaking, but after years of having lost the upper beak they came up with a prosthetic fiber beak, they attached it after several fittings and now she's a happy eagle who can actually GROOM herself... how pelple are so mean to innocent animals is beyond me....
What could possibly go wrong with this?
Bad idea. Anything could triger an attack; even a playful one by that beast would be catastrophic.
Gee, I'd let a few bears live with us, why stop at 1, they cant be that much trouble, right?
One would have to be mentally unstable to even imagine letting a bear live a life around humans.
No, I'd never trust most wild animals to bond with me the way humans do. They have a right to be what they are and not to be what we want them to be.
huge brown bear? no problem!
there was a bear attack where I lived some years back the girl was on her period and the bear attacked her. so unless the bear lives with guys only.
I think the same thing happened to that bear guy who hung out with them in the mountains the one time he brought up his girlfriend the bear attacked them, it was caught on his video camera.
When the bear chews their faces off I will laugh heartily because they deserve it.
Okay, I think we all agree so far, wild animals do not make good pets. I raised them to return to the wild, that was my goal and I was very good at it. I spent a lot of time with them. The bear fiasco was only a fiasco because the poor old thing died of old age shortly after I found him. He was a captive..of retarded redneck people. I never planned on letting him sit at my dining room table. The whole captive thing made me ill.
Cut On The Diagonal has a blog? Cool! I'll have to find that.
The Guy who was mauled and eaten by a bear was Timothy Treadwell, and he and his girlfriend lived with bears in Alaska for 13 seasons and he thought that he was "okay" to hang out with the bears, infact, he used to taunt and admonish them if they got to fresh with him, so one day, he got off the helicopter with girlfriend and a video camera, and that bear who he had been so close with, ate him. All of him, except his torso. The documentary is called The Grizzly Man and it is on discovery channel sometimes. Freaky story.
Yep. I saw that. He was kind of weird/crazy though, he acted like he had some God complex around them. They were wild bears..they didn't give a shit about him.
I read the story on that as well ANON 2:21 and that goes to show you no matter how well you think the animal likes you, they are still animals and should be treated as such. I think it's great that people rescue them, but pretending that they won't harm you is ridiculous.
I would never trust a bear in any instance. They scare me - too uncontrollable. I've only seen one in real life before - a black bear on the bank of the Delaware River while canoeing. Must've been about 200 feet away. I was about 7 at the time and thought he was fascinating. :)
Hey dish, not meaning to stir up the China debate again but came across this article today, it is so sad :( (about using bear's bile for traditional medicine and the mistreatment of the animals).
http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/mg20227061400-bear-tapping-a-bile-business
Mags
That was that girls own fault, the one who had her period, if she wouldve washed her snatch and plugged it up then the bear wouldnt have smelled it. She wanted it.
Gotta throw my 2 cents in...
I have a 130 pound Rottweiler/Doberman mix. He is the sweetest pup around, and just a big baby. However...he is RIDICULOUSLY strong! Even playing around, he can tug my 240 across the room with ease.
Now, multiply that by a factor of 5 or 6, then add in the non-domesticated wild animal stuff, and you have a recipe for absolute disaster. No sympathy from me when he goes natural on them and rips a few folks to shreds.
It's a bad idea. Makes me think about that poor woman who had her face ripped off by her friend's pet chimp.
Poor woman my ass, she was probably tormenting it.
I like his big bear smile and how he's got his big bear paws on the table. That being said, no way, Jose, would I live with a bear. All it takes is one playful swipe and your head is flying across the room.
8:02-The woman was not taunting the chimp. The chimp (Travis) was already acting crazy before that. The chimp's owner even admitted she asked her friend to come over specifically to help her try to calm Travis down.
Real Darwin Award candidates living with a bear and no cage bars separating them. Grizzly bears have been killers for millions of years, you can't change that in one generation no matter how 'nice' you are to them. If the bear ever throws a shit-fit, it'll be lights-out for the humans. Then 'authorities' will blame the bear and kill it for doing what comes naturally.
Can you litter or toilet train a bear? No way would I let one in the house. Last year a bear got my metal garbage can. FLAT, and I mean pancake flat!! Yikes.
That poor chimp should never have been taken out of his element and put with humans to begin with.
Brutus and Casey both starred in a movie called "Iron Ridge". The site is www.ironridgethemovie.com, Brutus looks bad in that.
Many years ago, I was camping with my family in a park in central, western Canada. My siblings and I went on nature walks through different parts of the park, up to the timberline on one of the mountains, through little valleys, etc. Some of the park naturalists would sort-of freak-out when they came across fresh bear "scat" (lots of grizzly bears in the area)and call a halt to any further hiking for that session. One of the naturalists was a little more liberal, and just made a lot of noise when she was hiking (to scare any bears away). We moved on to another camp after a few days, and it wasn't until we reached our new destination, and picked up a newspaper, that we read that she and her boyfriend had been hiking a couple miles off the main road close to our camp on the day we left, when she was killed by a grizzly, and her boyfriend was severely mauled. He managed to drag himself out to the road (TransCanadian highway) and someone (I think it was a doctor with a CB radio in his vehicle) stopped to help.
I knew this young woman, and went on a number of hikes with her. I've lived in fear of bears ever since.
They are wild. They can not be truly domesticated. This is trouble in the making.
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