What ever you do, don't feed the bear!?!?!?!

[Peruna_Ate_My_Rolex]

Something I found interesting. I wonder if it won't be much longer before they say crowd noise(or the band) agitates Peruna...heh

Baylor: Real bears won't attend games
10:40 PM CDT on Monday, October 13, 2003

Associated Press


WACO – Baylor University has changed a decades-old practice of having a live mascot, a black bear, at home football games after veterinarians said crowd noise could agitate the animal.

The decision follows a protest that began last year by members of Chicago-based Showing Animals Respect and Kindness, or SHARK, who claimed the bears were driven into a state of psychosis because they were kept in a mostly concrete environment.

The facility on the Waco campus houses two female North American black bears: Joy, almost 2 years old, and Lady, almost 3.

School officials denied that the bears were being harmed and cited satisfactory inspections by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

But the school plans to start an $800,000 fund-raising drive this fall to upgrade the facility built in 1976, a school spokesman said. It's not the first time changes have been made in the bear program, which is more than 70 years old. In recent years, trainers stopped feeding the bears Dr Pepper when veterinarians advised against it. Dr Pepper was created in Waco in 1885 and is the official Baylor soft drink.

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