Bear for sale?
Someone in Kuwait is selling a bear, isn’t that illegal? Where are the authorities, I can understand they don’t care about dogs or cats but at least when it comes to bears you would think they would give a damn. [Link]
Thanks GeordieLass!
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May 5, 2009
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33 Comments, add your own...
1. sAmUrAi | May 5th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
Someone’s probably going to buy it to try its meat, seriously hope that does not happen!
2. GeordieLass | May 5th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
Mark i keep hearing people telling me to contact PAFR ? do you think we can contact anyone even the way its kept all chained up am sure theres someone who can help i hate animal cruelty.
3. Mark | May 5th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
whats PAFR?
4. 2twentythree3 | May 5th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
This is TERRIBLE!
OMG.
7aram.
I once considered buying stuff from q8pets, now I don’t think I ever will again.
God sake. How did they even get this animal into this country? Stolen from the local zoo? Shipped in from ———— ?
It’s a bear, it’s need terrain like; tropical rainforest, waterfalls and trees……… NOT Kuwait.
Why don’t you contact Kuwait Zoo and ask them to build an exhibit for it?
5. apple.pie | May 5th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
poor bear :(
it looks miserable :(
6. Nat | May 5th, 2009 at 11:41 pm
That’s soo sad, poor bear! Hope someone puts a stop to this!
7. Nat | May 5th, 2009 at 11:41 pm
It says it was shipped in from Syria!
8. eleventh.st | May 6th, 2009 at 12:17 am
That’s messed up! Bears should not be pets..esp in Kuwait!
9. Barry McGarry | May 6th, 2009 at 1:01 am
Call Borat! He can deal with the “bear,” NOT!
10. nyx | May 6th, 2009 at 1:10 am
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! We all whine and cuss about the pathetic state of the animal but no one and I affirm no one including myself is gonna care a rats arse about it, within 30 seconds from posting their comments!
Face it; we are a spineless species! Animals are much better than us. As for this poor bear; God bless you or liberate you from this suffering my friend.
11. moodhi | May 6th, 2009 at 1:26 am
I agree with nyx, if you wana complain, you gotta act on what you say. Dont just complain and walk away, complain and do something about it.
Peace
12. Lexicon | May 6th, 2009 at 2:05 am
i bet this bear will get more sympathy on here than most immigrant workers out there
13. Zuno | May 6th, 2009 at 3:06 am
Thats just..wrong!! They should donate him to the Omariya Zoo. I think thats the best solution.
14. salah | May 6th, 2009 at 4:27 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE16aflFa-o
If a government did not move for human being’s lives, I really can’t see it acting for an animal.
15. qwerty | May 6th, 2009 at 5:48 am
WTF
16. Zaid | May 6th, 2009 at 7:41 am
if you guys go on the website, you would actually see that the seller appears to also be selling other types of uncommon domestic animals like raccoons, “lazy monkey?”, a cheetah, and etc (the number posted for the bear is the same for the other animals)… so im guessing it’s some private owner that wants to rid of all his “exotic” animals.
17. Holla | May 6th, 2009 at 9:09 am
this is fucked up, contacting afl.
18. J | May 6th, 2009 at 10:58 am
bad ass
19. organic kuwait | May 6th, 2009 at 11:03 am
plz try to keep us updated
20. 7ussien | May 6th, 2009 at 11:52 am
Why would anyone buy a bear!
21. TweeZ | May 6th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
I would and I would make him my best friend ba3ad!
22. Nasser | May 6th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Bear cavalry.
Sweet.
23. Sfsa78 | May 7th, 2009 at 4:00 am
I actually read bear as beer. Damn. LOL
24. Micky | May 7th, 2009 at 10:24 am
I have not been in Kuwait long so don’t know the background.
What about the IFAW -maybe they could assist
United Arab Emirates
Bastakiya Historical Building, Dar 40/1
PO Box 43756
Dubai
Tel: +971 4 354 0460
Fax: +971 4 354 0461
info@ifaw.org
25. pearls | May 7th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
it’s in a very bad shape, I wish we had animal police …
a couple of weeks ago I went to the aquarium and I noticed a shark at the bottom of the tank which sure seemed like it was dying. I looked closely and I was shocked to see another fish next to it!
26. bO_s3ayD | May 7th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
the pic where its sitting in a chair is hilariuos!
27. Desert Girl | May 10th, 2009 at 8:35 am
AFL thinks the bear has been sold.
Why do people import cold-weather-dwelling animals to Kuwait? Huskies and Chow-chows, for example. It is just plain stupidity. There is always the challenged individual who leaves his long-haired German Shepherd outside in the summer and when it drops dead from heat stress, they say that “it’s natural”. Yeah it’s natural! The dog shouldn’t BE there! It should be in its NATURAL environment. I’d like to see some of these idiots flown to Iceland and dropped on a frozen tundra to see how they would do.
Better yet, leave your kid in the back yard in the summer. Natural?
I brought my 300 ZX from a cold-weather environment (it was built on specifications for New England). The CAR didn’t do well in Kuwait – consistently overheated. What about animals?!
28. Sephi | May 19th, 2009 at 8:45 am
How sad : (
29. Ant | May 28th, 2009 at 8:03 am
Hey I heard from a valid source the other day that this bear has been rescued. Apparently people have all kinds of endangered species in Kuwait (and a Grizzly Bear is considered one of them).
A lot was done to resuce the bear, and its now in the Kuwait Zoo (not much of an upgrade but at least there are experts there to take care of the animals)…
Please if you know of any more incidents like this please notify this blog.
30. Wiss | June 4th, 2009 at 10:29 am
Hey Mark,
read the front page of Kuwait times today.
The government stopped the sale of the bear!
:)
31. Wiss | June 4th, 2009 at 10:30 am
Oups….I meant Arab Times.
32. Desert Girl | June 4th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Wooooooooooo hoooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!! The bear has been rescued! That’s great news!
He had been living in a cage, in direct sunlight, eating rice and water.
THANK YOU, Mark, for your contribution to the rescue effort. Without people like you who get angry when they hear about an injustice taking place – and then publicizing it – things just don’t happen.
I’m also glad that AFL is working so hard to assist animals in Kuwait. For those who don’t already do it – send them donations! They need all our help.
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