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Satanica

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ry-wildlife-park-canada-alberta-a8344396.html
A Canadian zoo has been charged after it took a bear out for ice cream at a Dairy Queen drive-through and posted the video online.

Footage showed the one-year-old Kodiak bear, called Berkley, leaning out of the passenger window of a pickup truck and licking an ice cream cone held by the restaurant’s owner.

Discovery Wildlife Park took the video down following widespread criticism, but initially defended it by saying it was supposed to be a message about safety.

“The message was: Don’t feed the bears. Don’t stop on the side of the road,” Doug Bos, the owner of the zoo, told CBC News in January, when the footage was shared. “If everybody would listen to the video, that’s what the message was – don’t do this.”
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a trainer said there were no safety concerns, as the bear was secured by a chain and the film had been taken before the Dairy Queen had opened for the day.

The zoo, located in Innisfail, Alberta, has now been charged under the Wildlife Act for taking the bear out without informing the authorities – one count relates to the ice cream excursion and the other for failing to inform officials the bear was being taken home nightly for bottle-feeding in 2017.

The owners of the wildlife park, Mr Bos and Debbie Rowland, have said they plan to plead guilty. “We made a mistake. I’m embarrassed about it,” Mr Bos told The Guardian. “Every time we take an animal off the property, we’re supposed to notify Fish and Wildlife, send them an email, and we forgot to do that in both instances.”

The zoo’s permit has also been revised to include new conditions requiring the zoo to provide more details when transporting animals and to keep them in a cage, crate or kennel while in a vehicle.

Members of the public will also be barred from having any contact with animals, including bears.
 
I think the only message here is: "Ooooh lookie there's a bear eating ice cream off a spoon! Let's get Cletus and go down to the Zoo and throw ice cream cones at him, that oughta be fun! Or, I know, even better let's go down to the woods and find one we can take home and play with!

Dumb! Dumb! Dumb!
 
In fairness wildlife in Alberta is odd.
They look at bears like the rest of North America looks at dogs.
It's just a thing on four legs and fun.

Not the wisest attitude.

In other outings they took...
badgers to the movies,
wolves to line dancing,
a tiger curling,
2 beavers out for Tapas,
an emu to get a drivers license,
4 Canada Geese to Klondike Days in Edmonton,
a bison to the Calgary Stampede,
a gorilla skeet shooting,
6 meerkats to West Edmonton Mall (but only came back with 3),
and finally a pair of moose to an Oilers game.
 
These dumb asses apparently posted the video of the bear eating an ice cream cone to spread the message that you shouldn’t feed the bears.
 
These dumb asses apparently posted the video of the bear eating an ice cream cone to spread the message that you shouldn’t feed the bears.

I think they made it up and just did it for fun ... like on the way home from one of their bottle feeding sleep overs ... This bear is spoiled !!!
 
Not as bad as what some other zoos do...

http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/lo...cle_6276b42d-e772-5ec3-8497-8c1f89df84c3.html

This place also holds some cub day several times a year where baby bears are ripped away from their mothers so idiot midwestern trash tourists and other cruel pricks can pet them and play with em and shit, because when you have a bear with protective/motherly instincts as intense as a bear, it just makes sense to run a petting zoo with em! Outfucking rageous.
 
Ok, they broke a law and they will pay for that. Trying to get attention for their business backfired.
Otherwise, lucky bear got a treat. If this is the worst thing people can whinge about, then there must not be much animal abuse in Alberta.
 
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