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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Flickr Photo of the Day

posted by on August 12 at 11:07 AM

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posted by evil robot 6

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1

OK, seriously - enough with the pit bulls posts!

Posted by Ziggity | August 12, 2008 11:14 AM
2

Hungry, Hungry Boo-Boo. Boo-Boo is sad that Yogi took off with the picnic basket!! Won't someone help Boo-Boo for lunch?

Posted by The Peanut Gallery | August 12, 2008 11:22 AM
3

It looks fierce.

Good thing that fence is there to separate them.

Posted by NapoleonXIV | August 12, 2008 11:31 AM
4

Badrobot6 is a chub chaser bear fetishist so it's fitting

Posted by Non | August 12, 2008 11:33 AM
5

Someone is buying into the Stephen Colbert hysteria.

Also, # 1 FTW!

Posted by Mike in MO | August 12, 2008 11:47 AM
6

This is a still from the not so cute story about "Christian the Bear"

Posted by Jeremy from Seattle | August 12, 2008 12:18 PM
7

This looks like the Olympic Game Farm in Sequim to me. Game Farm bears look fierce but the truth is they're just begging for a slice of white bread which you can buy at the front gate for $2/loaf and toss to the animals from your car window as you drive through the park. All the bears have their mouths open in photos because they're saying FEED ME. They catch the bread slices in mid-air. They are really quite tame (as far as bears go). A number of them were adopted from Hollywood where they spent their former lives being trained to perform and there's one Game Farm bear in particular that is a giant ham. He'll do "tricks" for you completely unsolicited if he suspects you have a slice of bread in your car for him. His most lazy trick is grabbing his toes and rocking back and forth on his butt. I've heard he'll do a somersault now and then, but never seen him do it myself.

Posted by city kitty | August 12, 2008 12:56 PM
8

to add onto #7's comments... olympic game farm is a seriously sad place. it may sound nice to visit such a place and see dozens of species of exotic animals - yak, brown & black bears, and many more - from your own car while tossing slices of expired wonderbread, but it is not nice. they have a pack of wolves, but they are caged solo (obviously a horrible situation for a pack animal to live in). the climate is all wrong for some (most?) of their "exhibits". i absolutely regret patronizing their business.

Posted by cw | August 12, 2008 1:35 PM
9

I'm surprised this story hasn't yet made Slog (pit bull puppies eat a cancer patient):

seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008107354_puppies12m.html

Posted by Madashell | August 12, 2008 2:32 PM
10

@ 8 , yes it is a sad place but so are zoos. Because many of the Game Farm animals are retired performers, the Game Farm is the last chance for them to live out the remainder of their lives as comfortably as possible. You can't just let a trained bear free into the wild once he gets too old to ride a tricycle. Many of these animals would have been euthanized, or sold into who-knows-what horrors once they became too old to make money for their owners/trainers.

No, the place is not ideal, but no place that contains wild animals in cages is ideal. It is however a much less grim situation than most of the other possibilities they faced.
Your fee to the game farm paid for the ongoing care of the animals that the entertainment industry believes are disposable. I don't think you should regret that.

Posted by city kitty | August 12, 2008 2:34 PM
11

Looks like a fake bear to me.

Posted by Sam | August 12, 2008 2:48 PM
12

I recently attended the Olympic Game Farm, and there was a nary a wolf in sight. Jus' keeping it real bitches!

Posted by Keekee | August 12, 2008 9:07 PM
13

That's gotta be Olympic Game Farm, and that place is five thousand kinds of fucked up.

Posted by Explorer | August 12, 2008 9:11 PM

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