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Black Bear shot.....why?
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There has been a black bear wandering around a residential area just outside of Toronto. We have been hearing about the bear and they have been watching it carefully.

Then the police moved in and shot it. No one was in danger. So why shoot it now?
The Ontario Ministry of Wildlife has tranquilizer guns, but with the bear around all weekend, why didn't they show up in time.

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

No one is happy about this. The bear could have been moved safely. I think our police like to shoot things. I hope there is some kind of investigation or inquest. At least they could train the police to handle wildlife. This is not their first encounter with a wild animal.
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Yes I have heard some police are trigger-happy when it comes to wildlife with any 'potential danger to the public' involved. I think it might be (?) because it's the quickest simplest answer and may involve less paperwork!
But not so kind....poor bear. It might have had young depending on it out there somewhere for all we know.
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What a shame.

With human expansion, not just residential development, but venture holidays/weekends, logging etc. we humans are intruding more and more into the lives of wildlife, including bears.
'We' humans have to learn to share and to tolerate, or whole species will fall by the dozen.
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(06-02-2015, 05:46 AM)Knight of Albion Wrote: 'We' humans have to learn to share and to tolerate, or whole species will fall by the dozen.
How very true. Well said, Noble Knight! The bear had not shown any signs of aggression, at any point.

Tobi, regarding "trigger happy cops"....well, Canada is not in the same league a near neighbour, where fatal police shootings of humans is nearly 400 in just five months: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/f...3083767330

That's the figure for people killed. I shudder to think how many animals have been shot by US police - perhaps tens of thousands, maybe more. There aren't any exact figures for that, but see http://www.citylab.com/politics/2013/10/...utes/7356/

Thank goodness that police are not routinely armed in the UK. Armed marksmen are only reserved for shoot-outs with armed criminals, not for innocent animals showing no aggression. Even escaped zoo animals such as tigers and lions are tranquillised.
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Quote:Thank goodness that police are not routinely armed in the UK. Armed marksmen are only reserved for shoot-outs with armed criminals, not for innocent animals showing no aggression. Even escaped zoo animals such as tigers and lions are tranquillised.

That is right. Britain does not give guns to every police officer. You are a safer place because of it and you don't have rampant crime and violence.

Out police are not as bad as our neighbour's police, but they have their bad moments. One police officer shot a mentally ill guy 9 times.
A group of them tazered an old lady with Alzheimer's disease.
They are both dead,

I guess I am not surprised that they shot the bear, but I had hoped the ministry of wildlife would have been able to get there in time.
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