Something needs to be done.

Bears are the greatest threat to America.

that you could go to a private zoo and get a free bear.

Seriously, I hope these poor bears can be set free.

I saw "Bear"... read "Beer".

Private zoo, bears, free beer. What could go wrong?

...A little....Maybe...

...salutes and waves from up the mountains a little bit. Now do the right thing and shut down the private "zoos."

or take guests there - once I knew what was going on with their animals.

I really hope the elders force the tribe to end this practice.

Next, they need to kick the evangelists out, and tell Harrah's to raise wages or go f*ck themselves.

there was a bear in pittsburgh that used to totter from left feet to right feet for hours. Lots of animals in zoos go nutty from lack of stimulating environment. 'natural enclosures' arent soley to make you feel like you are looking at animals in their natural environs, it is also to help their mental health, and how long they draw a crowd.

I dont think they are a healthy environment for these animals. They can do better.

It is about time someone steps forward to end this bullshit.

...that's already gone insane from living in a zoo?

A Cherokee Legend
In the long ago time, there was a Cherokee Clan called the Ani-Tsa-gu-hi (Ahnee-Jah-goo-hee), and in one family of this clan was a boy who used to leave home and be gone all day in the mountains.

After awhile he went more often and stayed longer, until at last he would not eat in the house at all, starting off at daybreak and not coming back until night.

His parents scolded, but that did no good, and the boy still went every day until they noticed that long brown hair was beginning to grow out all over his body. Then they wondered and asked him why it was that he wanted to be so much in the woods that he would not even eat at home.

Said the boy, "I find plenty to eat there, and it is better than the corn and beans we have in the settlements, and pretty soon I am going into the woods to say all the time."

His parents were worried and begged him not leave them, but he said, "It is better there than here, and you see I am beginning to be different already, so that I can not live here any longer. If you will come with me, there is plenty for all of us and you will never have to work for it; but if you want to come, you must first fast seven days."

The father and mother talked it over and then told the headmen of the clan. They held a council about the matter and after everything had been said they decided: "Here we must work hard and have not always enough. There he says is always plenty without work. We will go with him."

So they fasted seven days, and on the seventh morning al the Ani-Tsa-gu-hi left the settlement and started for the mountains as the boy led the way.

When the people of the other towns heard of it they were very sorry and sent their headmen to persuade the Ani-Tsa-gu-hi to stay at home and not go into the woods to live. The messengers found them already on the way, and were surprised to notice that their bodies were beginning to be covered with hair like that of animals, because for seven days they had not taken human food and their nature was changing.

The Ani-Tsa-gu-hi would not come back, but said, "We are going where there is always plenty to eat. From now on, we shall be called Yonva (bears), and when you yourselves are hungry come into the woods and call us and we shall come to give you our own flesh. You need not be afraid to kill us, for we shall live always."

Then they taught the messengers the songs with which to call them and bear hunters have these songs still. When they had finished the songs, the Ani-Tsa-gu-hi started on again and the messengers turned back to the settlements, but after going a little way they looked back and saw a drove of bears going into the woods.

thanks for posting it.