Thursday, July 24, 2008

Bear With Me....


I have never heard of bears traveling in packs, but I guess no one told them that it's not normal. At least 30 of crazed hungry bears have been searching for food and terrorizing a group of men at a mining compound in Russia. Two of the men became bear chow and now the other men won't go to work. (Do you blame them?) The Kamchatka brown bear is one of the world's largest, with boy bears reaching 10 feet and weighing up to 1,540 pounds. They can also run up to 30 mph despite their bulk. A California women just had 10 hours of surgery after a bear attacked her near Sequoia National Forest. The cops are checking the womens clothes for DNA so they can find the bear who did it and not kill the wrong one. In Russia, they are just shooting all the bears and not bothering finding out who the guilty bears are. That is why I like living in the USA. Even animals get a fair trial. I couldn't find a photo of a pack of bears so I'm using a photo of a pack of bear cookies. Yum.