Although I don’t agree with what these idiots did, why not send it to a zoo?
My first thought as well.
Recently, a cute little boy in the UK was euthanized over fears he might recover and put further strains on the glorious National Health Scheme:
Socialized medicine: Alfie Evans showed that there is a strict limit to the medical resources available to help you live, but there is no limit to the law enforcement resources available to ensure you don’t leave the hospital alive.
Probably not a lot of demand for common black bears in zoos. Everyone wants to see the grizzlies or polar bears.
A zoo OR there are wildlife habitats all over the country where he could have been cared for!!!!
There are far more black bears available than there are spaces available in zoos.
Cubs are routinely euthanized because there is no one who is will to pay to keep and feed them.
There is a large surplus population of black bears in the United States.
The bears do there part to keep it in check. Black bears are routine cannibals who will kill and eat smaller black bears. Mature boars routinely kill and eat all the cubs they can catch.
Well for one it is expensive to keep in a zoo.
2 there is no shortage of black bears.
Not worth the time or effort to do so.