Appalachian Bear Rescue

21 hours ago

ABR Daily Update-April 15, 2024-Getting on with it. 🐻

Weather: 80F (27C) Humidity 46%, Sunny 🌞

It’s a hot one! Our cubs don’t care; they’re in climate-controlled buildings practicing being bears. Everything they need to know is preprogrammed, so all we do is give them food, shelter, time… and air-conditioning. Otherwise, we stay out of their way and let them get on with it.

Casper and Shadow are instructing us on the latest moves in Cub Wrestling. We thought we knew them all, but the "resting-on-your-side pummel" is a new one on us. The brothers are eating Cubby Porridge made of fresh goat’s milk, Fox Valley Bear Milk Replacement Formula, and Gerber baby rice cereal. It’s the breakfast of champions! 🐻🐻🥣🥣

The cubs next door were up late, trashing their room and each other. Jellybean, the largest cub in residence, is a pretty good climber, but he can’t stick the landing…unless it’s on his noggin, which it so often is. Daisy Mae and her brother are in almost constant rounds of fisticuffs, and we wonder (again!) how mother bears do it. Really. How? 🤔 The cubs are offered the same menu as brothers Shadow and Casper, and eat heartily, probably expending the calories they consume by beating the porridge out of their roommates. If play is learning, then these guys are scholars. 🐻🎓🐻 🎓🐻🎓

Last night, Peeps, our smallest cub, decided Baby Not-a-Polar Bear (BNAPB) was making too much noise and kicked him out of her Cub Cave. She had words with him after breakfast, then went back to bed. She sleeps a lot but is eating her Cubby Porridge, taking her vitamins, and using her Climby Thing to practice. Good little bear! 🐻 🐻‍❄️

🧸All the cubs are up for virtual adoption. Please click on the link for more information. We’re sorry, but orders are restricted to the USA only.
appalachian-bear-rescue.myshopify.com/

❤️Please consider donating to Appalachian Bear Rescue:
appalachianbearrescue.org/make-a-donation/

🎉Our Visitor & Education Center at Trillium Cove is open! Please click on the link for more information:
appalachianbearrescue.org/contact-us/

🛑Bearwise.org offers excellent information on what black bears are up to at this time of year and what to do if you hike or live in “Bear Country”.

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Appalachian Bear Rescue

2 days ago

ABR Daily Update-April 14, 2024-Our Six Cubs 🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻

Weather: 69F (21C) Humidity 46%, Sunny 🌞

We have six two-month-old black bear cubs in residence:

Peeps Bear - Female - The Recovery Center - Rooms #1 & #2

Daisy Mae Bear - Female - Hartley House - Room #2
Duke Bear - Male - Hartley House - Room #2
Jellybean Bear - Male - Hartley House - Room #2

Casper Bear - Male - Hartley House - Room #1
Shadow Bear - Male - Hartley House - Room #1

Peeps, our smallest and youngest cub, likely born near the end of the range of probable cub birthdates (January to mid-February), is doing well. Now that she’s out of The Cub Nursery and in larger rooms, Peeps has the space to show the curators what she can do. They’re watching to see if her strength and coordination improve over time, signifying continued, albeit later, development. The vets from UTCVM-University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine took a look at Peeps when they were at the facility for Twinkle and Tinsel’s release (bless our yearlings, wherever they are. 🐻🐻), and agreed Peeps is too small and wobbly to meet any of the cubs at this time. There’s no doubt the rowdy monsters in Hartley House are right on track; they’re all over the place, up and down. They eat like horses and play like devils, born as they were with The Rules of Cubby Fight Club written in their genes: First Rule: There are no rules. Mad as hatters, they are, mad as hatters.

At present, Peeps is content with her own company, and we hope with continued progress, she’ll meet Casper and Shadow soon.

🧸All our cubs are up for virtual adoption. Please click on the link for more information. We’re sorry, but orders are restricted to the USA only.
appalachian-bear-rescue.myshopify.com/

❤️Please consider donating to Appalachian Bear Rescue:
appalachianbearrescue.org/make-a-donation/

🎉Our Visitor & Education Center at Trillium Cove is open! Please click on the link for more information: appalachianbearrescue.org/contact-us/

🛑Bearwise.org offers excellent information on what black bears are up to at this time of year and what to do if you hike or live in “Bear Country”.

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Appalachian Bear Rescue

5 days ago

ABR Daily Update-April 11, 2024-Our Mission is Nearly Over 🐻🐻

Weather: 71F (22C) Humidity 79%, Showers☔️

Peeps Bear, our smallest cub in residence, is adjusting to her spacious new quarters in The Recovery Center. She's an energetic little thing and likes exercising her "up" gene on the climbing structure. She seems better coordinated than she was only two days ago and has a good appetite.

Peeps reminds us of Doodlebug Bear, though she's in much better health than Doodle was when she arrived. Like Doodle, Peeps needs company, but she's still too small to meet the other cubs. If all goes well, the curators hope to introduce her to Casper and Shadow, but that will have to wait until she's a little bigger... or until she runs out of patience with her solitary confinement. Just give us a little more time, Peeps, so you can hold your own in "Cubby Fight Club."🐻🤞

Our mission with yearlings Twinkle and Tinsel is nearing its end. Curators Haley and Katrina placed some tasty treats in Acclimation Pen #4 to entice them to come inside. Once they've entered, the curators will lower the gate, and the bears will be confined to the pen for safer immobilization on release day.

Thank you for helping our bears on their journey back to the wild.🐻🐻

❤️ Please consider donating to Appalachian Bear Rescue:
appalachianbearrescue.org/make-a-donation/

🎉Our Visitor & Education Center at Trillium Cove is open! Please click on the link for more information: appalachianbearrescue.org/contact-us/

🛑Bearwise.org offers excellent information on what black bears are up to at this time of year and what to do if you hike or live in “Bear Country”.

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Appalachian Bear Rescue

6 days ago

ABR Daily Update-April 10, 2024-Peeps Moves! 🐻🤗

Weather: 65°F (18°C) Humidity 72%, Cloudy ☁️

We apologize for the late post today. Rest assured, the only bears that moved into, out of, or around the facility today was Miss Peeps Bear. 🐻

Peeps mobility has continued to improve and recently she has exhibited “graduation behavior” to the Curators. In the Cub Nursery, this means climbing up the walls - literally! Today, she was moved from the Cub Nursery to the Recovery Center. This will allow her ample space to continue refining her mobility and climbing skillsets, while also allowing Curators to further minimize their contact with Peeps as she grows. She now weighs just under 4 pounds! We are very happy for her.

All of the other cubs and bears at the facility are doing well. We will feature them in tomorrow’s update. 😊

❤️Please consider donating to Appalachian Bear Rescue:
appalachianbearrescue.org/make-a-donation/

🎉Our Visitor & Education Center at Trillium Cove is open! Please click on the link for more information: appalachianbearrescue.org/contact-us/

🛑Bearwise.org offers excellent information on what black bears are up to at this time of year and what to do if you hike or live in “Bear Country”.

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