According to the British "Daily Mail" reported on May 3, recently, Jeff Watson, the "bear keeper" in Indiana, told his story with brown bears. Watson brought home two brown bears for free after the zoo was closed, and he was responsible for feeding and caring for the two brown bears, but said the brown bears were "not pets" because "they can never be tamed." At the same time, Watson also uses bears to teach people how to stay safe around bears.
Watson has been raising bears for 30 years, and he has been obsessed with bears since he was a child. In 1995, Watson raised his first cub and named it Brody, when he was recovering from a neurological disorder. When bears are young, he says, they treat you like their mother. He fed the bear three years of milk in a bottle and watched the bear grow. Brody later became a screen star, appearing in various commercials, television and movies.
A few years later, an animal park in Georgia was closed, and Watson's friends told him there were two brown bears in the park. Watson brought home about 7-year-old brown bears, Bob and Screech, for free and took good care of them. But Watson refuses to call bears pets, arguing that bears don't fit the traditional definition of pets, that bears are wild animals, predators at the top of the food chain, and that they will never be tamed.
Watson refuses to call bears pets, arguing they will never be tamed
Watson had hoped to release Bob and Screech back into the wild, but after talking to experts, he gave up. Because the pair of brown bears are artificially bred, they are no longer afraid of humans, which means that they will often get close to people and houses, which is very likely to cause them to suffer harm. The only way to solve this problem is to inflict pain on the bear so that the bear associates the person with negative emotions and stays away from the human. Watson said he didn't want the bear to go through the pain.
After deciding to keep the bears, Watson decided to use them to teach people how to stay safe in the bear world. "Animals and people can benefit from this, and I hope to save the lives of both humans and bears," he said. That's where I am now. Watson added that if something happens to him in the future, he has made arrangements in advance, and the two brown bears can go somewhere else. (Internship Editor: Zhuang Jiayi Reviewer: Zhu Yingku)