A bear story

WNCmtns · #1 10-31-2009, 12:40 PM

This guy found these 2 grizzly cubs with the dead mother in Alaska. One cub survived and he managed to raise it to maturity. You can see how his family interacted with the bear as it matured. Look at the size he has grown to. The bear must feel he's another pet (notice the honored guest at the dinner) and the humans are his "family". He's housebroken, very gentle and comes and goes as he desires. Can you imagine having an animal like this as a pet?

(view the slide show--click top left "from beginning", and it takes a while to download)

www.magnet1.com/N6grizzly.pps

ScoutHikerDad · #2 10-31-2009, 12:51 PM

Wow! Did the family get any of that Thanksgiving turkey? That's one pet I wouldn't swat on the nose with a newspaper for chewing up the furniture! And I'll bet they don't have to worry about door-to-door salesmen or burglars either!

gqualls · #3 10-31-2009, 01:59 PM

Wow ..... that was really something. Thanks for sharing.

kyflytyer · #4 10-31-2009, 09:36 PM

That's too much. I had a pet raccoon when I was in high school and people thought that I was unstable.

sprringer · #5 10-31-2009, 10:30 PM

YIKES...no thank you....right or wrong, I would not want to be sitting at the table when he realizes he is a bear.

WNCmtns · #6 10-31-2009, 10:35 PM

I totally agree--I have some black bear "neighbors" and I certainly wouldn't do that--and they are a lot nicer than a grizzly. A wild animal is a wild animal, bottle fed or not.

rivergeezer · #7 11-04-2009, 06:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by WNCmtns

Can you imagine having an animal like this as a pet?

Didn't work out too well for Timothy Treadwell....

WNCmtns · #8 11-04-2009, 09:50 PM

For the most part he lived with the bears--not vice versa--and he became a snack one day. You just can't domesticate a grizzly. Didn't he live with them for 12-13 years?

sprringer · #9 11-04-2009, 10:50 PM

watched a crazy documentary on him, wild...pun intended

DrLogik · #10 11-04-2009, 11:19 PM

I don't want to pee on the parade but no matter what circumstances that bear was raised in it is STILL a WILD animal. It can "turn" at ANY time. It is foolish to raise a wild animal as a pet. Wild animals are not meant to be pets. That's why we call them...."wild".

Remarkable? Yes...absolutely!

Foolish? Yes...absolutely!!!