Rocky, a 700lb (317kg) bear, bit Stephan Miller, 39, in the neck at a centre where wild animals are trained for film and TV productions.
But officials have said they are puzzled by what provoked the bear, who had been touted as one of the “best trained” in showbusiness.
Two other trainers subdued Rocky with pepper spray and were unhurt.
I’m no bear expert, but when I was handling dogs, I didn’t “play wrestle” with the Rottie or the Kom.
The bear is not known to have been involved in any previous incidents. The victim’s brother, Randy, told news agency The Associated Press the bite occurred during “playful” wrestling behaviour by a “loving, affectionate, friendly, safe bear”.
Because smart dog handlers know that the lack of a “previous incident” means jack when you’re dealing with something that outweighs you, and has bigger teeth.
In this life, I’m a woman. In my next life I’d like to come back as a bear. When you’re a bear, you get to hibernate; you get to sleep for 6 months. I could deal with that. Before you hibernate you get to eat yourself stupid. I could deal with that, too. When you’re a girl bear you get to birth your children (who are the size of walnuts), while you are sleeping, and wake up to partially grown cute cuddly cubs. I could definitely deal with that. If you’re a mama bear everyone knows you mean business. You swat anyone who bothers your cubs. If your cubs get out of line, you swat them, too. I could deal with that. If you’re a bear, your mate expects you to wake up growling. He expects that you will have hairy legs and excess body fat.
Yup; gonna be a bear!
The favorate delacacys of bears is a bunch of animal rights wackos. Q. What do bears call bicyclists? A. Meals on wheels
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hasnt been a ‘wild animal raised from birth by humans’ story of the ones that finally chew a weeeeee tad too hard where the shock and exclamations don’t include the ‘never did that before’.
what, they were waiting for the 2nd episode to conclude the critter is dangerous?
every time an event happens for the first time, its, er, the first time it happened !!! not happening previously is just a different spot on the time line !!
here’s something else for the disneyfied folks to ponder: gee, has a pet from that SPECIES *ever* bitten its owner/unsuspecting visitor/drunken attendee who sticks whole arm in cage/etc ??? ever??
so . . . the ‘never happened before’ then is confined to only that particular critter, in which case refer back to previous point.
Lesson: you can’t train away an instinct.
Wendy,
“…but I will say that I don’t tolerate racism.”
And suppose we find something we don’t like about you. Do we then have the “right” not to tolerate it?
Gunney99, the bear only ate the guy.
Both Treadwell (idiot) and Amie Huguenard (naive) were killed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Treadwell
I read about where a bunch of idiots were protesting against a bear hunt some ding bat said THESE ANIMALS JUST WANT TO BE LOVED Yeah step between a she bear and her cubs and see what kind of reaction you,ll get and in one case some antihunting jerk was mualed by a she bear outside yellowstone park and it turned out the guy was a deadbeat dad. These jerks must have watched that stupid french film THE BEAR too many times