Bear killed after attack on child

[Catherine]

This is a sad story because a child is hurt and a bear cub is orphaned.

http://news.google.ca/news/url?sr=1&ct2=...124&at=dt0

The thing is, this could all have been prevented. The bear was used to eating people's garbage and was no longer shy of people. She was just a mother feeding her baby and people set her up to be killed by humans.

http://news.google.ca/news/url?sr=1&ct2=...t=1&at=dt0

Whenever a wild animal starts depending on humans for food the results are the same. The animal dies. Last year it was a bear eating from an outdoor freezer. She was shot as well and her cubs only lived because the wildlife officer refused to follow the order to kill them.

We share some of the same space as wildlife. We need to be more responsible. I am sure it was cute to watch the cub hanging around with its mother, but it isn't a cute sight now.

I hope the little girl makes it and I hope the cub makes it. Neither of them deserved what happened to them.