Boo Boo the Bear III

Yet more news on Boo Boo the poor bear cub, although he may not be very unlucky much longer!

Boo Boo was found to never have been exposed to rabies, so he has been found a new home: the St. Louis Zoo!

To anyone not from St. Louis, the St. Louis Zoo is one of the best zoos in the world. Animals are in big enclosures meant to mimic their natural habitat with plenty of plants and other animals, and taken good care of by zookeepers. Boo Boo will have a good life there, safe from terrible people like Cindy Farmer. Also, he might be released back into the wild because, thanks in part to Gerald Durrell, zoos can help animals (especially orphans like Boo Boo) to learn to live in the wild.

Actually, I would love to live in the St. Louis Zoo.

And the admission is free, so stop by to wish Boo Boo good luck!

Boo Boo! (This is actually while he is still at Wash-U.)
(courtesy of the Wall Street Journal)

Boo Boo the Bear II

Boo Boo will not be euthanized! The Conservation Department found a way to trace back his origins to the point that they can figure out whether or not he has been exposed to rabies. I'd love to say my efforts helped Boo Boo, but I doubt it, although maybe this shows that if you try hard enough to find another way, you will. It might have seemed simplest to euthanize Boo Boo, but they were able to find another way.

Boo Boo in the hands of an animal shelter.
(Courtesy of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Still, BOYCOTT CINDY'S PETTING ZOO!!! An inspector was sent there to investigate, and this was a REPEAT VIOLATION. Usually, petting zoos only have to be inspected about once a year, but this was the sixth time this year that they had to send an inspector to Cindy's. In the past, they have found sharp wires sticking out at the eye level of rabbits, pigs sitting for weeks in their own waste, water bowls with thick black-brown sludge, animals kept in close to pitch black rooms, jagged metal on cages, expired vaccinations, and, once, a goat stuck inside a feeder, its entire body weight resting on 2 wires, and the owner, Cindy Farmer, seemingly oblivious.

This is not OK! Never give this evil woman business!

However, thank God that Boo Boo was spared. If he is found rabies-less, they will find a better home for him.

Boo Boo the Bear

Washington University recently hired Cindy's Petting Zoo to help take stress off students during finals. They made an agreement that the petting zoo was ONLY TO BRING DOMESTICATED FARM ANIMALS. Surprise, surprise, they show up with a bear cub.

Boo Boo in a student's arms.
(courtesy of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Boo Boo, a 3-month-old bear cub, whose mother was most likely killed in order to obtain him for the petting zoo, nipped a couple of students because he is still teething. After finding out that Boo Boo was taken out of the wild, Wash-U told all the students who had been nipped to report it to the Student Health Services because Boo Boo might have rabies. If I went to Wash-U, this would certainly be taking a lot of stress off of me!

Because animals born in the wild might not show rabies symptoms, it was decided that Boo Boo would have to be euthanized in order to conduct tests to determine whether or not the students should seek medical treatment. The date for the euthanasia is yet to be set.

Boo Boo did nothing wrong! He was an untrained bear taken away from his family and his home by a cruel petting zoo owner. He should not have to die! Boycott Cindy's Petting Zoo until they re-look this ghastly felony! Write to a politician! We must do something about this, and quickly, to save an innocent cub from a terrible fate!