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pnwmom

(108,976 posts) Sat Jan 26, 2019, 09:30 PM Jan 2019

Three year old Casey, lost in the woods, says he made a friend. A BEAR.

Last edited Sat Jan 26, 2019, 10:59 PM - Edit history (2)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/north-carolina-3-year-old-casey-hathaway-says-he-hung-out-with-a-bear-after-he-vanished-from-his-grandmothers-backyard/ar-BBSLY4T?li=BBnbfcL&fbclid=IwAR0IADHnhIQepeKETqeTioEVLm0oaS3iuf6uIPYVdJBamtLM14Z607fg1_o

The North Carolina 3-year-old who vanished from his grandmother’s backyard earlier this week said he spent his two days in the woods with a friendly bear.

Casey Lynn Hathaway was found alive just before 9:30 p.m. Thursday, bringing an emergency two-day search for the missing toddler to a close. Rescue workers were following up on a tip about a crying child when they discovered Casey about 40 or 50 yards into a wooded area, tangled up in some brush and calling out for his mother.

The boy had been missing since Tuesday, when he didn’t come inside with the other children he’d been playing with at his grandmothers house in Enrul, located about 100 miles southeast of Raleigh.

Casey’s aunt, Breanna Hathaway in a Facebook post said her nephew was “healthy, smiling and talking” following his return late Thursday.

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I'm wondering if he made friends with a very large, furry dog that looks kind of like a bear. Like this one.

https://www.akc.org/dog-breeds/newfoundland/

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Three year old Casey, lost in the woods, says he made a friend. A BEAR. (Original Post) pnwmom Jan 2019 OP

I hope somebody asks him to draw a picture of the bear. 50 Shades Of Blue Jan 2019 #1

Three year olds are barely at the stick figure stage, pnwmom Jan 2019 #3

Guess I should have added a "J/K"! 50 Shades Of Blue Jan 2019 #5

Yeah -- I just figured you hadn't been around a preschooler in a long time. pnwmom Jan 2019 #6

Oh, I've been around plenty! 50 Shades Of Blue Jan 2019 #7

I find this fascinating. Sienna86 Jan 2019 #2

I wondered that, too. It's so hard to imagine a bear being friendly. Maybe a very large dog? n/t pnwmom Jan 2019 #4

He could have fantasized it--like fantasizing that Superman kept him company. nt tblue37 Jan 2019 #12

If he actually was befriended by a bear, there should be evidence on his clothing -- fur, etc. Nay Jan 2019 #8

At that age one of my children had an imaginary friend who was as tall as the ceiling pnwmom Jan 2019 #9

I think it might have been that kind of bear! Even so, it does mean that Nay Jan 2019 #10

I agree. And his parents might be hearing a lot about that bear for a while. n/t pnwmom Jan 2019 #11

50 Shades Of Blue

(9,975 posts)

1. I hope somebody asks him to draw a picture of the bear.

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Sat Jan 26, 2019, 09:43 PM

Jan 2019

pnwmom

(108,976 posts)

3. Three year olds are barely at the stick figure stage,

Reply to 50 Shades Of Blue (Reply #1)

Sat Jan 26, 2019, 09:52 PM

Jan 2019

so I don't think a drawing of a roundish shape with some spikes sticking out of it, or next to it, would be very informative.

https://www.momjunction.com/articles/stages-of-drawing-development-in-children_00372311/#gref

1. Between 2 to 4 years:
Random pictures and scribbles define this stage as your child begins to move the arm and work with a drawing tool such as a crayon or a pencil.

He will draw lines and dots- just scribble away on a drawing surface [2]. It is here where the creativity of a child has the full room to develop as he has no notion of the real appearance of any object.

2. Between 3 to 7 Years:
At this stage of pre-schematic art, your child uses different geometrical shapes and lines of varying lengths to draw the objects [3].

But he still isn’t aware how these objects are organized. The pictures could be floating on the drawing surface before your child learns to arrange them logically.