{"id":26721,"date":"2023-12-09T20:29:27","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T20:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harvestmoonnews.com\/?p=26721"},"modified":"2023-12-09T20:29:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T20:29:27","slug":"free-baloo-the-bear-who-is-poked-with-sticks-and-plied-with-booze-for-laughs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harvestmoonnews.com\/world-news\/free-baloo-the-bear-who-is-poked-with-sticks-and-plied-with-booze-for-laughs\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Baloo the bear who is poked with sticks and plied with booze for laughs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Animal lovers are demanding the release of brown bear Baloo who is poked with sticks and forced to drink alcohol for tourists\u2019 amusement.<\/p>\n

The proud beast has become a sad, forlorn figure of fun for ghouls who visit the ski resort where he is kept in squalid solitary confinement.<\/p>\n

Baloo, who has been caged in his mountaintop prison for 23 years after being found injured as a cub in 2005, is regularly taunted by kids jabbing him with sticks.<\/p>\n

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He lives off a meagre diet of cereal and is given fizzy pop and even booze so twisted onlookers can watch the great bear stagger around drunk.<\/p>\n

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World Animal Protection, which has launched a petition for his release, said: \u201cIn a ski resort in Romania, Baloo the bear has been locked up in a cage under horrific conditions for 23 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cBaloo was found injured as a cub in the Romanian forests before Rangers took him in for treatment.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe then came into private ownership at the ski resort where he still sits today \u2013 23 long years later.\u201d<\/p>\n

The charity added: \u201cSince 2005, the Romanian government has banned private individuals from keeping bears, but the law is poorly enforced.\u201d<\/p>\n

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WAP wild animals campaign manager Sanne Kuijpers said: \u201cThe conditions in which Baloo now lives are degrading to animals.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bear gets cereal, lemonade and even alcohol.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been in solitary confinement for nearly a quarter of a century and kids are jabbing him through the bars with sticks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bear is visibly traumatised.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sanne added: \u201cThis is no life for a bear.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat\u2019s why we draw international attention to Baloo\u2019s fate and hope that he can be freed soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is hoped Baloo can be freed from the resort and rehomed at the Eastern European country\u2019s Libearty Bear Sanctuary.<\/p>\n

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