Staff at a B.C. pharmacy on Sunday were stunned to discover their latest customers were a mother bear and her cub.
Video posted to social media show the two bears wandering through the Pharmasave in Hope.
The bears can be seen inspecting some items while the staff were figuring out how to respond.
Employee Kara Kelso told Global News that when someone yelled ‘bear!’ in the store she worked to get the customers to safety first.
“I have video of them coming straight into the store,” said Kim Glentworth, who was not working on Sunday, adding that her staff handled the incident perfectly.
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“They actually crossed from across the street.”
She added that the bears did some loops in the cosmetics section.
“They figured they could possibly get the bear-necessities,” Kelso quipped.
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Glentworth said the bears wandered for about five minutes, checked out the pharmacy consulting desk and eventually left after about five minutes.
“They were quite peaceful and so was I,” Kelso added.
She posted the video to TikTok where it has received 111,000 views and counting.
The woman at the pharmacy who called the conservation officers caused their senseless death… :'( The mom was well known in Hope and she was always minding her business and taking care of her cubs. The cub was sent to the forest to have a cruel and slow death. Critter Care and Northern Lights Wildlife Sanctuaries WERE NOT CONTACTED! Every year, so-called BC “conservation” officers kill around 700 bears in BC. These bears haven’t attacked anyone, but are killed simply because they become accustomed to humans, often due to people failing to secure their garbage. Humans are the cause of these unnecessary and cruel killings. Bears wander into parks, towns, and cities because their habitats are destroyed by human activities like building houses, golf courses, shopping centers, roads, mining, and logging. They’re desperate for food before hibernating, and sadly, many victims are cubs—either euthanized or left to die slowly, as happened in Hope. WHY CAN the pseudo-conservation officers do their job of conserving and protecting wildlife? Humans and wild animals can coexist peacefully, but the wild animals always pay the price of human negligence and ignorance… Very sad… :'(
Oh how nice. Let’s live in the mountains and murder the wildlife. Cute, cuddly and viral. And dead.
And then the mother bear was shot and killed.
What happened to the bears ?? The truth needs to be posted in the local paper
I just read that the momma bear was shot killed ny conservation because it wandered in. Is this true?
Why not relocate mama and cub. What kind of arslings turns out a cub to starve through winter. Heartless! Mindless.
No mention in your story that later that day the mother bear was killed by conservation officers? And that the baby bear was left to defend for itself. That baby bear will undoubtably suffer a slow starve to death demise. Great decision B.C. Conservation Service officers
They killed the mama bear
If it’s true the mother bear was shot and killed then the person that shot her should be shot to!!!!
Should have been a politician or CEO. Kirk ‘em’ all, am I right, fattie?!?
CBC reported that the mother bear has been euthenized and the cub released on his own. This would be a very cruel thing to do considering winter is approaching.