BEARS: Ursines belong outdoors

There is wildlife no matter where you go. We have cougars, deer, elk, coyotes, bears and bison. But that is a chance you take going out and exploring nature. Anything could happen, but you always have precautions you could and should take. 

Bears are just like us humans, protecting themselves and their young from danger. You mean to tell me you wouldn’t protect your child? I would! These bears are only doing what’s natural to them and their instinct. This isn’t Nebraska, all wild animals were here before us humans were. They shouldn’t be caged, and now we are complaining about them? They are called wild animals for a reason and God made them like that. 

How would you like to be caged up and fed certain food at certain times, no freedom like wild animals should have, with people looking and staring at you? Being locked up would be like being in prison all your life, and that’s how it would be for these animals. They should be able to roam free, have mates, have babies, be free like God made them, protecting themselves and their babies and being left alone. 

They are doing what’s natural to them how they were made. You can take precautions before going out in the wilderness, go on Google and look it up. Some are: going in a group, making loud noises, taking bear spray, watching for bear tracts. If you go out in the wilderness, that’s all on you, not on these animals.

JAMIE ROVER, JENNIFER CLUM, JESSICA SMITH and KRYSTIN BOSANKO

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