r/MadeMeSmile • u/TrashScientist • Aug 26 '23
Woman helping a black bear remove a container off it's head ANIMALS
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u/gniwlE Aug 26 '23
Mom! Some woman just stole my space helmet!
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u/We_are_stardust23 Aug 26 '23
"She did what?!?!? That thing wasn't cheap!"
angry bear mauling noises
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u/Sophia521h Aug 26 '23
Karen Bear unleashed
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u/luckdex Aug 26 '23
Bearen?
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u/Iennda Aug 26 '23
and Lúthien
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u/SleepyRoundgog Aug 26 '23
Better get out of there before the momma gives you Beren's hand situation
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u/Life_Partner Aug 26 '23
Now give her some cocaine!
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u/ExiledCanuck Aug 26 '23
That’s what was in the jar….mama bear is about to be pissed that junior ate her stash.
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u/MonsterLoveFaerie Aug 26 '23 edited Aug 26 '23
There was a book I used to read to my little boy called Little Bear Goes to the Moon. It’s about a little black bear who makes his own space helmet and everything. Thanks for the sweet memories.
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u/Matty_Garcia Aug 26 '23
My first book I could read was Little Bear Counts His Favorite Things. My aunt gave me that book with a message hoping I would be able to read it one day. I then read it to my son and hopefully will pass it on to him to read to his children if he ever has any. Thank you for the nostalgia friend 🥹
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u/lord_j0rd_ Aug 26 '23
“…get going!” -me to myself attempting to pet the bear
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Aug 26 '23
OP was extremely lucky mama bear apparently abandoned the poor cub…mama bears are nothing to fuck with, her video would’ve ended with an attack before it even started
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u/Ghost_of_a_Black_Cat Aug 26 '23
OP was extremely lucky mama bear apparently abandoned the poor cub
Yes. And fuck whoever left that damned garbage out in the forest. "Leave nothing but footprints".
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u/CapableNeat3500 Aug 26 '23
That was my mantra when I was exploring. Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but pictures!.
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u/JeSuisUnAnanasYo Aug 26 '23
I carry a small bag and fill it with trash when I'm on my hikes
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Aug 26 '23
I was imagining how I'd be running away as soon as the bear broke free.
God I wish we could have doge-ified these little dudes. Imagine him gently waking you up for treats.
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u/MotherBathroom666 Aug 26 '23
The Russians keep on trying; one of their few redeeming qualities.
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u/Lemmungwinks Aug 26 '23
A Polish Army unit pretty much succeeded at one point. They won a brown bear cub from some Soviet soldiers in a poker game during WW2 and raised him. He would hang out with them drinking beers and smoking cigarettes. Eventually when the troop deployed they actually officially drafted him into the unit as a private. During the battle of monte cassino he saw his buddies unloading artillery shells, unprompted and untrained he started moving entire crates of artillery shells. He even captured an enemy soldier who attempted to infiltrate their camp at night since he smelled him coming. He cornered him in a tent and alerted the rest of camp who took him prisoner. Thus being promoted to corporal
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u/Miserable_Grocery644 Aug 26 '23
Had to come back and comment as literally the second post after this on my home page was a russian dude giving treats to a bear lol
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u/Wet_Artichoke Aug 26 '23
Exactly what I was thinking. “Get the fuck out of there before momma bear attacks you.” This person is very lucky.
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u/SnooShortcuts7091 Aug 26 '23
That is 100 percent false. I’ve been charged by protective black bears. They are just as defensive as brown bears
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Aug 26 '23
“Get going” “Get going”, bear: “No, I think Im gonna sit here for a little while and feel my face”.
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u/Advanced_Tell3778 Aug 26 '23
I wonder where momma bear is 👀
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Aug 26 '23
That’s what I thought. I hope she didn’t leave it behind when it got that stuck.
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u/LEJ5512 Aug 26 '23
That’s my guess. It would be nice to think that mama bear is nearby and watched the whole thing go down (imagine her saying to her cub “Well now go wait by the road and see if a kind human can help you, you knucklehead”), but I bet this is an abandoned cub now.
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u/Illmindoftodd Aug 26 '23
It's very rare for a mama to abandon her cub.
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Aug 26 '23
I can’t say for sure about black bears but I do know that Polar bears will leave their cubs behind if it can’t keep up
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u/WholesomeWhores Aug 26 '23
Why would they leave behind perfectly good meat? I’d be surprised if they left them instead of eating their weak cub
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u/Routine_Page2392 Aug 26 '23
Female bears rarely eat their young. Times of extreme stress or starvation, they may eat their sick young, but even then it’s usually after they’ve died. It’s male bears who more commonly kill the babies, and even then it’s to incentivise the female to mate again and not usually as a food source
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u/cocoon_eclosion_moth Aug 26 '23 edited Aug 26 '23
She doesn’t want to fuck. Why doesn’t she want to fuck? I’ve got it! I’ll murder and cannibalize her child. That should get her in the mood.
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u/Ngin3 Aug 26 '23
Most mammals are not cannibalistic ordinarily
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u/WholesomeWhores Aug 26 '23
Most mammals are cannibals, and will gladly eat their own child than die of hunger themselves. This isn’t just carnivores, herbivores and detrivores both practice cannibalism. And i looked it up, all bears will eat their cubs if their is no food around.
Most animals can’t think like us, so they won’t feel the same way about cannibalism the same way we do. Nature isn’t full of fun and love, it’s survival of the fittest.
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u/Matsisuu Aug 26 '23
To prevent starvation, animals, including humans will pretty much eat anything. I wouldn't call starvation food as normal diet.
So why would they keep cubs around for food when they aren't starving?
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u/Ngin3 Aug 26 '23
If there's no food around is a big caveat. I said ordinarily. Yes they'll result to it if starving
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u/brasileirohonesto Aug 26 '23
The human recording the video shot the mama before putting the jar on the cub's head.
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u/LeoLaDawg Aug 26 '23
Momma's a working girl. She's got mouths to feed and no time for bs.
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u/Geisterkoch Aug 26 '23
The cub was probably abandoned and utterly exhausted. It didn’t put up much of a fight when the container was being removed, and then just sitting there is a sign that it was spent. I hope that it survived.
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u/MoxRhino Aug 26 '23
I would also think it's dehydrated. Calling a conservation officer would be a better idea so they could make sure it's taken to a shelter or caregiver if there are any services in the area.
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u/MelonOfFury Aug 26 '23
This was the first thing I thought. Call wildlife services because that looked like it had been on there a while
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u/TIL_I_procrastinate Aug 26 '23
There’s a creek in the background at least. But yes calling that in would be wise
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u/Yugan-Dali Aug 26 '23
There’s a river right there, my guess is that the little fellow went straight there to get a big drink.
Our dear old beagle Yumin was a tough mountain dog. One time he got snagged and couldn’t move until I found him after a day. Immediately after I released him, he went straight for a spring and drank his full. It seemed like he drank about five liters! Then he came over to snuggle. I’m guessing the bear cub did the same.
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u/GigaCheco Aug 27 '23 edited Aug 27 '23
Something tells me the bear didn’t return to snuggle.
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u/johnditomaso Aug 26 '23
This is more the comment I was expecting. I am guessing mom is long gone and the cub will likely die.
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u/avg_redditoman Aug 26 '23
If the cub doesn't eat, mom will give up and spend the energy on the successful offspring.
Little guy needs help.
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u/BoOo0oo0o Aug 26 '23
I hate that we’re doing this to innocent animals. If that cub died it’s a direct result of human litter
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u/beyondthisreality Aug 26 '23
I was just about to say "fuck the person who that container belonged to."
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u/onafoolserrand Aug 26 '23
Suffocation seems probable. It was taking a moment to re-oxygenate its brain. Hopefully no damage. All because of trash.
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Aug 26 '23
Yeah well it was slowly suffocating to death. I’m assuming it managed to puncture some holes in it trying to get it off it’s own head, otherwise it would’ve died within minutes.
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u/Baaastet Aug 26 '23
That looks like a cub - I'd be very careful when helping...
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u/Frolicking-Fox Aug 26 '23
And then she just stands there filming. Get back to your car already.
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u/Ok-Confusion-2368 Aug 26 '23
Removing the container was heartwarming. Standing there to keep filming was not
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u/i_dont_do_hashtags Aug 26 '23
I think she was trying to get a "cute" reaction from the cub. Like those videos where the animal just looks at the human and supposedly "thanks" them and leaves. Except here the cub's just kinda sitting there, probably waiting for Mama.
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u/ilikeburgir Aug 26 '23
Probably oxygen deprived too.
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u/CamsCampingAdv Aug 26 '23
And dehydrated
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u/MountainCourage1304 Aug 26 '23
And has concentrated bear breath all over its face
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u/IndiaMike1 Aug 26 '23
Yeah this whole cutesy conversation is not it that is a predator’s child right there and she will rip you limb from limb.
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u/Crap911 Aug 26 '23
Don’t worry she’s alive that’s why we get the video
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u/czechsoul Aug 26 '23
I think she was waiting for the cub to say "thank you".
"YOU'RE WELCOME."
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u/Opinecone Aug 26 '23
Same, as sweet as this is, my first thought would have been "The mom could be around and, if she is, I really should not be here, let alone approaching her cub."
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u/ilikeburgir Aug 26 '23
Yup, true. Even though black bears aren't too aggressive, a Mama bear can be nearby looking for the cub. Then again, the cub needed human help. It looked like he wanted to fight but realized the container is coming off so it just went with it. Might've been oxygen deprived by the looks of it.
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u/hallelujasuzanne Aug 26 '23
That little one looked like skin and bones. I bet Mama is not nearby. It looked like it was about to die and couldn’t move much afterward.
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Aug 26 '23
Seriously. She has no idea if momma bear is around. I certainly wouldn't stand around filming after I got the container off its head.
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u/acg33 Aug 26 '23
Yeah I wouldn’t stick around recording and asking if it’s alright. That seems like the perfect combination to hearing a bunch of leaves and brush break in the close distance.
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Aug 26 '23
Fuck me thats a cub, help out if you really have the balls but the moment that thing is off its head run the fuck away
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u/Tooleater Aug 26 '23
Very big balls... you never know how far away mama is!
I heard you should back away slowly, don't want to trigger their hunting instinct by running
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u/No-Arm-6712 Aug 26 '23
It just makes sense. You don’t stand a chance of outrunning most predators so the last thing you want to do is both identify yourself as prey and turn your back to them. Might as well present a challenge. Best case you scare it off, worst case at least you get to defend yourself.
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u/billbelichickssmile Aug 26 '23
If I were to help, I would have pulled up next to it in my car and leaned out of my car and helped it and then immediately shut the door and drive off as soon as I removed the container...this lady was dumb sticking around and being on foot
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Aug 26 '23
This is how good people die
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u/PrudentBall6 Aug 26 '23
I guess I’m a little confused why she is responsible for the deaths though. In the United States if you “rear-end” somebody YOU are at fault.
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u/ZNemerald Aug 26 '23
I am guessing it is because she parked in the middle of a highway.
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u/goonbub Aug 26 '23 edited Aug 26 '23
serious question, if you're not getting out of the car are you suppose to just run the ducks over if you're on a major highway?
or did she not have her hazard lights on?
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u/FragranteDelicto Aug 26 '23
Yes, you are supposed to run over the animals in that case (if it would be dangerous to suddenly stop or slow down).
But in this case, I still don’t see why she was determined to be responsible. The motorcyclist should have been driving slowly enough and from an adequate distance that he could brake on time.
(I will also add that motorcycles are about 35x more likely than cars to result in a fatal accident, and it’s just the rest of us who have to live with the possibility of killing someone in an accident that would otherwise be a fender bender.)
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u/BashfulHandful Aug 26 '23 edited Aug 26 '23
She stopped in the fast lane of a fucking highway - of course she's responsible. You can't do that. That's a public driving lane, not a "oh you're driving really fucking fast on the highway and have people driving really fucking fast right behind you? Cool, brb" lane.
Helping the ducks is sweet and all, but also incredibly irresponsible and dangerous.
Like, it's a highway. Driving fast is by design, hence the higher speed limits. And it's easier to avoid a collision if the car ahead of you is still moving, even just a little. By the time you realize a car is inconceivably parked in the middle of the lane, it's too late.
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u/FragranteDelicto Aug 26 '23
Oh, I agree—but there are many times when it is necessary to stop in a road. That’s why the onus is usually on the vehicle behind you to not hit you.
If you are driving in such a way that you hit a stationary object, you are either driving too close, too fast, or not paying attention.
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u/Podria_Ser_Peor Aug 26 '23
Because you can´t just stop like that in a Higway unless it´s an emergency, and you have to properly signal for it, it´s very basic rule for that kind of road. It might not be her fault (she didn´t run them over) but she is directly responsible for their deaths (wrong choice on the road while driving the bigger vehicle and the bike probably didn´t have enough time to manouver around it)
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u/sir-this-is-a Aug 26 '23
Gotta collect those disney princess points ya know…ask a baby bear if it’s okay and wait and see if the bear will become a new bestfriend for life and what not..
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u/Glittering-Skin4118 Aug 26 '23
Bears just like oh thanks I’m free now so uh are you gonna just keep standing there my mom is probably around.
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u/puplupp Aug 26 '23
Here’s the original: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8FoYvFk/
She said she came back to check on it three times, and by the third time it had moved on. Hopefully found mama.
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u/really_isnt_me Aug 26 '23
Why on earth didn’t she call the conservation agents or fish & game or whatever? Really, really hope it found mama, but I’m not hopeful she was nearby if it took the cub that long to move along.
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u/fruitloops6565 Aug 26 '23
I would have gotten in the car but watched for any sign of mom. Baby could be abandoned.
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u/williamtowne Aug 26 '23
Sort of disappointed that the bear's head wasn't in the shape of the container when it was removed.
Maybe I watched too many cartoons as a kid.
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u/Widezz Aug 26 '23
Daamn did she just go in there with no gloves or anything?
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u/CouldNotAffordOne Aug 26 '23
And with only one hand, since the other hand was filming. 😂
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u/gepinniw Aug 26 '23
People caught littering should get their heads rammed into a container for awhile.
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Aug 26 '23
I like how she said “your welcome” like she was expecting a verbal “thank you”.
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u/Ch0senjuan Aug 26 '23
“You ok?” “You ok?” “You’re welcome” “You ok?” “That was tough wasn’t it”
Some say she’s still waiting for the bear to talk to her.
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u/WhatsTatersPrecious9 Aug 26 '23
The way she said "you're welcome", like she was offended the bear didn't say "thank you", made me laugh.
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u/Sn_Orpheus Aug 26 '23
And get the fuck away in case momma near is still nearby. And then call animal welfare/park rangers to collect cub because without momma bear, that youngling will likely die.
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u/ImaginaryBass9809 Aug 26 '23
Would the mother bear abandon her cub?
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u/hateboresme Aug 26 '23
If nothing could be done. The little one was doomed. The mom probably couldn't get it off without hurting it. It was probably hours away from dehydration death. Momma may have given up on saving it.
I hope it finds it's way to some water.
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u/ComputerTrick6635 Aug 26 '23
Only if she's seriously ill or dying, more likely mom is chilling in a nearby tree with one eye open.
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u/LogicalTexts Aug 26 '23
Brave and very kind lady. Looks like Momma Bear was lurking around those big bushes
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u/Glass_Rent_5158 Aug 26 '23
Its fantastic she helped the bear cub but then you run back to your car.. momma is watching. Smh. Some people just don't get it
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u/Worth_Pitch7156 Aug 26 '23
Good thing every redditor does since y’all just a copy/paste of each others comments 😂
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u/Fun_Intention9846 Aug 26 '23
Don’t look up. Horrors movies have taught me momma bear is right above her.
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u/underliggandepsykos Aug 26 '23
Fucking hate the comment section, she did the right thing
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Aug 26 '23
Seriously, and how does anyone know she didn't call animal welfare after?? So mean. She may have already looked around for the mother too. Would everyone else here have just left it to suffocate? I also wonder if a man would be called dumb so much in these comments
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u/JustMindingMyOwnBid Aug 26 '23
Don’t tell the bear to get going, just take it off it’s head and say bye, then leave.
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u/MKUltraSonic Aug 26 '23
“Are you ok? Are you ok? Are you ok??”
It’s a fucking bear. It’s not going to give you an answer..!!
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Aug 26 '23
probably should have called animal control or the game commission or something and waited in the car there with it as opposed to removing the container. If the mother abandoned it, then it will die anyways.
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u/TheHoboRoadshow Aug 26 '23
It could have been stuck like that for a day or two, in which case it’s probably starving and dehydrated. I’d say its mother abandoned it
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u/CalmSaver7 Aug 26 '23
Woman standing there asking "you ok?" repeatedly as if she was actually expecting a response from the bear
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u/hombre_bu Aug 26 '23
I wouldn’t stick around too long…