The B.C. Conservation Officer Service says it has killed one of the two bears that wandered into a Pharmasave in Hope on Sunday.
Conservation officers were called to the Pharmasave around 2 p.m. following a report of a mother black bear and her cub inside the store.
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When officers arrived, they found the bears outside the store and in the neighbourhood and they tranquilized and assessed both bears.
The Conservation Service said that the mother bear was “confirmed to be the same animal that entered the store and with a conflict history in the area” and she was euthanized.
The cub was released into a “wilderness area” according to conservation officers.
“Bears that learn to associate people with food, frequent populated areas and enter homes or stores are not candidates for relocation or rehabilitation, due to the risk to public safety,” the Conservation Service said in a statement.
Disgusting act on the part of the CO.
You are a disgrace to the badge you wear. How can they determine this act to be humane? This breaks my heart that the little cub must now fend for him/herself way before it is able to. 😭
If Pharmasave would have a normal door or push button doors and not the motion sensor ones.They wouldn’t have had the bears coming in.Mother dead, baby bear left to a slow death.
If you phone the conservation service you give the bear a death sentence .
Thats terrible… leaving the orphaned cub on its own? They should have facilitated for it to go to the Vancouver Zoo. Thats a death sentence for this poor baby bear…
Great. Put the cub out to starve. Should have euthanized it too.
They should no be called conservation officers, what do they conserve? They should be renamed provincial exterminators or Conversation officers as they seem to like talking at the coffee shop.
F/ G GUN CRAZED MURDERERS ! THESE F/ ERS ALWAYS HAVE AN EXCUSE TO MURDER ! WE STEAL THEIR LAND, THEN KILL THEM WHEN THEY COME HOME TO FEED. AFTER ALL FIRES, NO FOOD FOR THEM.
No shortage of black bears in BC
This completely urbanised bear that was teaching its cubs to live humans is the punch
At this point it’s. I longer a wild animal it’s just another urban pests
Wow they kill another bear and throw the CUB into the forest. I think the CUB will be dead sooner than later. Disgusting
Killing a mother bear means suffering and death for a cub!…. Why officials did not bring a cub to the BC wildlife rehab that rehabs the bears?
Killing a mother bear means suffering and death for a cub!…..
Murderers!! There is no food left for them due to the wildfires and you just slaughter the mom and now her cub will die a slow torturous death by starvation??? Shame on you! Conservation officers are the biggest joke!
How dare you put down a bear for no reason, she was not being aggressive, shame on this store for pist8ng this or bringing awareness to it, disgusted all the way..
Booooooo. If you live somewhere with that high wildlife population your doors should be manual with an open button and not automatic.
I’m pissed off. Just because the bear made a mistake and walked into a store, does not give conservation officers the right to kill the bear. Relocation on her and the cub should have been the priority. The fact the cub was sent off to fend for itself, I’m disgusted and saddened. Same with that poor cub in Lake Okanagan. More should have been done.
Really? They just had to shoot them ? They couldn’t just tranquilize them, and move them? No of course not, where’s the fun in that?
🤬🤬🤬🤬 Sad very sad.
Getting real sick of hearing about the continual killings of bears ( and other wildlife ) by conservation officer’s decisions. Not to mention ALL the killings the public doesn’t hear about. In just a few days, we now have 2 baby cubs that we know about, on their very own with no mother, trying to navigate on fattening up, and finding a den to go into hibernation for the winter…all on their own. Wonder how that’s going to work out? Think a bit, and figure out better solutions, rather than killing.
The cub didn’t look old enough to survive on its own!!!!!