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Old 10-31-2009, 12:40 PM
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A bear story

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
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Old 10-31-2009, 12:51 PM
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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!
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Old 10-31-2009, 01:59 PM
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Wow ..... that was really something. Thanks for sharing.
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Old 10-31-2009, 09:36 PM
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That's too much. I had a pet raccoon when I was in high school and people thought that I was unstable.
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Old 10-31-2009, 10:30 PM
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YIKES...no thank you....right or wrong, I would not want to be sitting at the table when he realizes he is a bear.
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Old 10-31-2009, 10:35 PM
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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.
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Old 11-04-2009, 06:30 AM
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Can you imagine having an animal like this as a pet?
Didn't work out too well for Timothy Treadwell....
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Old 11-04-2009, 09:50 PM
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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?
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Old 11-04-2009, 10:50 PM
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watched a crazy documentary on him, wild...pun intended
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Old 11-04-2009, 11:19 PM
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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!!!
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