Yea thats what i'm getting at, your average bear isn't brought up by humans from the moment they are born.
A man and his pet bear
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Yea thats what i'm getting at, your average bear isn't brought up by humans from the moment they are born.
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Dogs whove been raised since a pup by one owner will not attack that owner or close associates to it..
and why cant bears be kept as pets.. bit big yea, still can.. And that bear isnt wild.
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I know a dentist in your area who has a real name very similar to your user name. Long shot but could have been him!
Fair enough, I probably would as well if I had the chance to keep a pet bear
Dogs have been domestic pets for hundreds (thousands?) of years. However, there are still cases of dogs randomly attacking their owners.
Bears are only pets in very rare cases so it's a lot more likely that it will maul the owner because it's still such a wild animal regardless of how it has been brought up.
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Same reason why lions can't be kept as pets, very powerful predators that have a tendancy to attack people.
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That is immense!
This one looks 'shopped
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i thought the same.
but imagine if you're doing the hoovering and it freaks out the bear that could be the end. it would be cool to have a pet bear though, if you have the time to spend with it and live in the countryside.
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The only thing with a dog is that it won't simply smash your skull open with one swipe when one day it gets slightly angry 
what about christian the lion ?
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Amazing photographs especially the one where they are all eating Christmas or Thanksgiving dinner.
Will probably end badly! The instincts of a bear can't be plugged by hand raising, a bear is not a demosticated animal. Just because you reared one doesn't mean anything as said before a bear is a wild animal.
Looking through them photos I was hoping I wouldn't see him hold his new born child to the bear I didn't thankfully.. would he be that silly? I hope not.
Will probably end badly! The instincts of a bear can't be plugged by hand raising, a bear is not a demosticated animal. Just because you reared one doesn't mean anything as said before a bear is a wild animal.
Looking through them photos I was hoping I wouldn't see him hold his new born child to the bear I didn't thankfully.. would he be that silly? I hope not.
Well they aren't domesticated like a dog or a cat in the breeding... which is a process which takes many many generations, hundreds if not thousands of years to perfect, of which I imagine the very first traits you would want to weed out would be aggressiveness or fear. This bear could very well be a pleasant mannered animal that would serve as a blueprint of their domestication, but its just as likely that if it ever panics for whatever reason or gets a bit territorial then this guys time is up.
This bear could have been raised from being a minute old in his home and with him 100% of the time.. but it is still a wild animal.
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you just have to think how often cats and dogs scratch/bite people even if its just playfully
with the cat and dog you get scratches or a bite and then can easily overpower it or chase it away, even the most dangerous of dogs would struggle
if the bear takes a swing/bite at you then your pretty much helpless
with the cat and dog you get scratches or a bite and then can easily overpower it or chase it away, even the most dangerous of dogs would struggle
if the bear takes a swing/bite at you then your pretty much helpless
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Fair enough, I probably would as well if I had the chance to keep a pet bear
Dogs have been domestic pets for hundreds (thousands?) of years. However, there are still cases of dogs randomly attacking their owners.
Bears are only pets in very rare cases so it's a lot more likely that it will maul the owner because it's still such a wild animal regardless of how it has been brought up.
ok, proof please of a dog attacking its owner. bearing in mind that the dog has to be raised since a pup by this owner. I know that you wont find any cases. It doesnt matter if an animals species are wild, if that animal is brought up in a domestic environment it will act in accordance. Animals arent stupid..
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication
Seems you need to do some reading.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication
Seems you need to do some reading.
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He was actually re-introduced in the wild less than 2 years after he had been bought as a cub so that didn't last very long.
However I was speaking legally, having a large predator animal in your back garden poses a danger to other people in the area.