Posted on 03/20/2022 7:34:04 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Cody Setzer, 29, of Yreka took the cubs when they were estimated to be less than 4 weeks old, authorities said.
Christian Martinez Fri, March 18, 2022, 6:30 AM·2 min read A Siskiyou County man pleaded guilty to stealing two weeks-old bear cubs from a Northern California den in 2019, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife said this week.
Cody Setzer, 29, of Yreka took the cubs when they were estimated to be less than 4 weeks old, authorities said.
The investigation began in March 2019, when Setzer contacted wildlife officers, claiming that he had found the cubs along Highway 263, north of Yreka.
"A wildlife officer became suspicious of Setzer’s story when no bear tracks or habitat were found at the location where Setzer claimed he had found them," the Department of Fish and Wildlife said in a release.
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The cubs were taken to the department's Wildlife Health Laboratory in Rancho Cordova, where DNA testing revealed they were probably born in the Sacramento River Canyon in northern Shasta County, nearly 100 miles south of where Setzer said he found them.
"During the investigation, wildlife officers determined Setzer and a co-worker at a local timber management company took the cubs from a den inside a tree that had fallen across an access road to a work site,"
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He can claim high cheekbones and a right to a traditional pet.
“Never ever take the king’s bears. Oh my!”
Or the King’s Carrots.
C’mon now, that is bearly a crime
—”bearly a crime”
Did the barely legal bears lie about their status?
” from a den inside a tree that had fallen across an access road to a work site,”
How many tranquilizers did that bear have to be on to act in such a docile manner? Betty was lucky he didnt gobble her fingers too.
This looks like something retired actress Tippi Hedren would have done around 1965. Tippi was know to own full sized Lions. The Lions would walk freely inside her home. They would also share her bed if they felt like it that day.
OK, now we are getting somewhere. In California cutting up a tree that has fallen across an access road to your work site without a permit is a serious crime.
My wife was driving home one day and there was a traffic problem. Someone had run over a squirrel, and it was flopping around in the road and people were stopped gawking at it. My wife grabbed the Nomex hood that was in my helmet in my firefighting gear in the trunk. While people were screaming at her to stay away from it because it was dangerous and probably had rabies she calmly walked over to it, wrapped it in the fabric, picked it up and put it in the passenger seat and drove it home.
When she got home she called the “wilderness vet” and told them that she had an injured squirrel. They said that the only option was to have them put it down. When she replied that she thought that it should have a chance to recover the person she was talking to went off the rails. They started yelling at her and told her that harboring an injured squirrel was “serious crime” and that she needed to bring it to them so that they could put it down. She hung up the phone as they were telling her that she faced fines and jail time.
This started a months long adventure where we rehabilitated the squirrel and eventually let it go. It lived in the tall firs behind our house for years until it was probably eaten by a coyote, owl, or cat. It never was as fast as a squirrel without a medical history and was easy to identify because it was very vocal and it’s tail never recovered.
What an idiot.
Probably much less than the drugs that it takes to get Biden to look like he is still with it. Ask Ron Howard's little brother...
But no... bears are bears and if your pet bear eats Betty White or a little kid, a lot of people are going to frown on it. If your pit bull did the same thing you probably would not be facing as much criticism.
What did you say that fur? What bearing does it have on this discussion? Honestly, I think we’re polar opposites. I hate to say it, but I fear you face a grizzly fate.
A guy I had known was famous for wrestling Victor the beat at a McCormick Place show. He (the guy) was huge and notoriously strong.
He said Victor was crazy strong but worse than that was his killer bad breath! Yes, he lost the match.
I had read that the bear’s teeth and claws were removed.
http://www.remembertheaba.com/onlyintheabamaterial/onlyintheaba/WrestlingBear/WrestlingBear.html
I miss Goldilocks.
His defense should have been “but I thought they were lost cubscouts and so tried to rescue them”.
Yes, bear wrestling, the sport of kings. The only problem is that you need a bear that grew up with a twin so that it learned early that biting and being bitten is painful. Otherwise, you do need a toothless, clawless bear with gingivitis to be your sparring partner.
The two tiny bear cubs are pictured after their recovery by California wildlife officers. They have since been released back into their native habitat.(California Department of Fish and Wildlife)
No feeding the bears.
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