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I wish they could be charged with animal cruelty.
It might deter other idiots from doing the same to other wild animals.
It might deter other idiots from doing the same to other wild animals.
By all accounts, Dillan the bear, who was caged for decades at the Union County Sportsmen’s Club near Millmont, Pa., is now living the life at a rescue sanctuary in Colorado.
Rebecca Smudzinski, a senior captive wildlife specialist for the animal rights group PETA, says Dillan is climbing trees, swimming and foraging for food. He even has a female companion named, Lilly, another bear rescued from a small zoo.
It’s a far cry from what Smudzinski says was Dillan’s hellish, nearly fatal, life inside a cage at the club.
PETA says the black bear grew fat and unhealthy on leftover bar and restaurant food, lack of exercise and the inability to hibernate due to his proximity to the club’s noisy gun range.
By the time Dillan was rescued in mid-January, Smudzinski says the blubbery bear had ballooned to 857 pounds. She contends Dillan was a death’s doorstep due to his caged lifestyle and allegedly shoddy care.
Pat Craig, director of the sanctuary that now houses Dillan, stated in a PETA press release that “in his 40 years of rescuing captive wildlife, Dillan’s dental disease was the most severe and advanced that he has ever seen and that he was, by far, the most obese bear of the more than 300 the organization has rescued.”
But mere months at his new home has made Dillan a new bear, PETA officials say.
“It’s been an amazing transformation,” Smudzinski said in a phone interview Thursday with PennLive. “Dillan’s incessant rocking has stopped. He is curious, and he lives with another rescued bear.”
In other words, all’s well that ends well – right?
Not so fast.
PETA, which put up billboards and mounted an aggressive public relations campaign to pressure the club into releasing Dillan back in January, is now stepping up the heat on Gov. Tom Wolf and the Pennsylvania State Police to criminally charge club officials responsible for the alleged neglect of the bear.
“The responsible parties must be punished for Dillan’s suffering, including a permanent ban on owning animals,” Smudzinski said.
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Rebecca Smudzinski, a senior captive wildlife specialist for the animal rights group PETA, says Dillan is climbing trees, swimming and foraging for food. He even has a female companion named, Lilly, another bear rescued from a small zoo.
It’s a far cry from what Smudzinski says was Dillan’s hellish, nearly fatal, life inside a cage at the club.
PETA says the black bear grew fat and unhealthy on leftover bar and restaurant food, lack of exercise and the inability to hibernate due to his proximity to the club’s noisy gun range.
By the time Dillan was rescued in mid-January, Smudzinski says the blubbery bear had ballooned to 857 pounds. She contends Dillan was a death’s doorstep due to his caged lifestyle and allegedly shoddy care.
Pat Craig, director of the sanctuary that now houses Dillan, stated in a PETA press release that “in his 40 years of rescuing captive wildlife, Dillan’s dental disease was the most severe and advanced that he has ever seen and that he was, by far, the most obese bear of the more than 300 the organization has rescued.”
But mere months at his new home has made Dillan a new bear, PETA officials say.
“It’s been an amazing transformation,” Smudzinski said in a phone interview Thursday with PennLive. “Dillan’s incessant rocking has stopped. He is curious, and he lives with another rescued bear.”
In other words, all’s well that ends well – right?
Not so fast.
PETA, which put up billboards and mounted an aggressive public relations campaign to pressure the club into releasing Dillan back in January, is now stepping up the heat on Gov. Tom Wolf and the Pennsylvania State Police to criminally charge club officials responsible for the alleged neglect of the bear.
“The responsible parties must be punished for Dillan’s suffering, including a permanent ban on owning animals,” Smudzinski said.
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Despite Dillan the bear’s happy ending, PETA pushes for criminal charges against Pa. sportsmen’s club that held him
By all accounts, Dillan the bear, caged for decades, is now living the life. But PETA still wants a Pa. club to pay.
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