A true nightmare if you ask me. Poor doggie. Grizzlies are just about as bad.
Posted on 11/29/2016 4:25:20 AM PST by SJackson
A video of an enormous polar bear in Canada gingerly patting a chained sled dog hit the Internet last week and quickly went viral. The Huffington Post lauded its “cuteness factor.” The man who shot the video praised the bear for showing “that kind of heart toward another animal.”
But reality soon intervened. Canada’s CBC News reported that officials had removed three polar bears from the same property in Churchill after one killed and ate another dog. The owner of the site, who raises the sled dogs, told the network that the slaughter had occurred on “the only day we didn’t feed the f—— bears, the only night we didn’t put anything out.”
The irony of the two incidents spawned commentary on the perils of the attributing human emotions to animals and imposing a moral code the creatures can’t possibly be expected to live up to. They also renewed anger at the owner of the site, Brian Ladoon, who has long been a target of animal rights activists and conservationists who decry his chaining of dogs and luring of polar bears for tourist photo-ops.
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Well, I do have to agree with the “animal rights” activists on this one: it is a really bad idea to lure polar bears for tourist photo ops or any other reason. Bears that have learned where humans will give them food become extremely aggressive if that food is not there.
Kind of like welfare recipients...
Question: How are Democrats and Muslims like polar bears?
Answer: They pretend to be nice, but they secretly desire to kill you.
Yep.
Very right about that. Muslims are now petting liberals...seeing how fat they are and readying them for the kill.
A true nightmare if you ask me. Poor doggie. Grizzlies are just about as bad.
Big wild animal. Does what it’s born to do. Kill and eat the kill. Nothing wrong with that.
Have to stop anthropomorphizing them as harmless proto-pets.
As far as the bear knew, you did in fact put something out for him- a husky...dumb ass.
Liberals hate analogies about life and sports. They have no defense against the truth.
I watch tha TV program weekly.
Now that guy right there, he sounds like a really, really, smart and cool guy to me. /s
Churchill, Manitoba has a full-time bear patrol to deal with these beasts. They are as worried about them eating children on their way to school as they are dogs.
When you watch those wildlife shows you really don’t get to see how big these bears are. Damn that would be scary to meet one in the wild!
One could paraphrase William Blake's "Tyger, Tyger" except the reference to fire wouldn't work.
Put one of those monsters up against any of the big five, is it(?), from Africa and place your bets.
And we here in the other 56 states sit around and argue about which handgun to carry way up north...
“Mmmmmmm.....tasty dog” - Barack Obama
The other bear wasn’t “petting” the dog; he was checking its juiciness...
If you’ve seen “Grizzly Man”, rangers were furious at Tim Treadwell because he was causing them to lose their natural wariness around humans; they told him they didn’t want to have to kill them as they ventured too close to people. In the end they had to kill two because of him; the little one eating him when they found his remains (because now it knew how tasty we are) and the larger one that killed him and his girlfriend. A bloody affair that could’ve been avoided; I know he had mental issues, and understand his rationale for disliking his meds (that the ups and downs of emotions/moods are natural, and without them life is very bleak), but the outcome was tragic for all involved.
What’s odd to me about how a number of people get all emotional and think it was so cute for the bear to “pet” the dog is that they are probably big believers in natural evolution. You know, survival of the fittest and natural selection. I saw that show on Churchill a few weeks ago, and fully expected the bear to eat the dog any minute.
Dog Gone.
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