Editor's Note:
I read the story of the grizzly bear getting surgery on it's broken legs yesterday and was a bit confused and concerned when I read about the bears coming from my home state of Georgia.
I had no idea we, the good folks of the fine state of Georgia, had a bunch of bears kept in cement pits were tourists could throw rotten apples and stale bread to them.
It sounded to barbaric.
Certainly, no one here in Atlanta would go to a place like that.
But, sadly, it's true.
In Helen, GA there is a place called Black Forest Bear Park and it is exactly as bad as it sounds.
Nearly 20 bears kept in concrete enclosures all day while tourists pay for the pleasure of throwing food to them.
I remember going to Grandfather Mountain in the Boy Scouts and visiting Millie the bear and feeding her peanuts over the edge of her enclosure.
"The Source of the Trouble" still has the mug.
But that was 30 years ago.
I thought for sure there weren't any more places like this in the country.
I was wrong.
They're still out there and it's a damn shame.
I'm no member of PETA but on this one I agree with them.
These animals deserve better than to be kept in pits like this.
Let's get busy and shut this place down, shall we?
This comment was copied from PETA's Deadly Destinations page:
Pls Shut Down Black Forest Bear Park! says:
November 4, 2013 at 5:02 PM
Ditto to the two previous comments on Black Forest Bear Park in Helen Georgia! I just saw an instagram video showing someone feeding the bears. Absolutely APPALLED at the size of their cement prisons! In my opinion, WORSE than other Bear parks that have already been shut down! So inhumane :’(
Read more: http://www.peta.org/living/entertainment/deadly-destinations/#ixzz2tsFll7rR
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Surgeons Deal With One Grizzly Patient
By Clayton SandellFeb 19, 2014 3:26pm
Marley, a 7-year-old grizzly bear suffering from two broken front legs, was sedated and carried into an operating room Tuesday at the Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Fort Collins.
“This is my first grizzly bear,” said Dr. Jeremiah Easley.
Video and pictures of the 300 pound female patient were released today by the university.
In the video, Easley says X-rays revealed Marley’s left front leg had a fracture that was at least four weeks old. A second X-ray showed her right front leg was also broken. Doctors performed surgery to help repair an open flesh wound and remove dead pieces of bone to prevent an infection.
Marley was rescued about a month ago from a roadside zoo attraction in Georgia.
“She was being kept in a facility with 17 other bears where they were being kept in essentially cement pits,” said Rebecca Miceli with the Wild Animal Sanctuary. “They were an attraction essentially where people could come and feed them.”
The bears were given a new home at the Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keenesburg, Colo., but officials noticed that Marley would not put weight on one of her legs. A subsequent examination determined that both legs had fractures, Miceli said.
Miceli said Marley is recovering and could live another 20 years.
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Marley, a 7-year-old rescued grizzly bear, undergoes a CT scan at the Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital. Credit: Colorado State University
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/02/surgeons-deal-with-one-grizzly-patient/
17 bears held captive at the Black Forest Bear Park in Helen, Georgia are finally free. Thanks to PETA, Sam Simon, The Wild Animal Sanctuary, and the Atlanta Humane Society, the bears have been removed from their barren concrete pits and are living happily at The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keenesburg, Colorado.
Now, instead of begging for scraps from the spectators and having their babies torn from them just after birth, the bears are enjoying 60 acres of green grass, their own private dens and top notch veterinary care.
According to PETA, two of the bears, Ursula and O.B., “were moved to the sanctuary in time to give birth to their new cubs in comfortable dens, and for the first time ever, they will have the chance to raise their cubs themselves, instead of having them taken away shortly after birth.”
See the inspiring video below. You just might cry. (Tears of joy.)
Marley, a 7-year-old rescued grizzly bear, undergoes a CT scan at the Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital. Credit: Colorado State University
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/02/surgeons-deal-with-one-grizzly-patient/
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BY ALI BERMAN JANUARY 21, 2014 Good News!!!
http://www.ecorazzi.com/2014/01/21/watch-17-bears-rescued-from-concrete-pits-now-in-sanctuary/WATCH: 17 Bears Rescued from Concrete Pits, Now in Sanctuary
17 bears held captive at the Black Forest Bear Park in Helen, Georgia are finally free. Thanks to PETA, Sam Simon, The Wild Animal Sanctuary, and the Atlanta Humane Society, the bears have been removed from their barren concrete pits and are living happily at The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keenesburg, Colorado.
Now, instead of begging for scraps from the spectators and having their babies torn from them just after birth, the bears are enjoying 60 acres of green grass, their own private dens and top notch veterinary care.
According to PETA, two of the bears, Ursula and O.B., “were moved to the sanctuary in time to give birth to their new cubs in comfortable dens, and for the first time ever, they will have the chance to raise their cubs themselves, instead of having them taken away shortly after birth.”
See the inspiring video below. You just might cry. (Tears of joy.)
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