An adorable black bear cub turned out to be an unlikely suspect held overnight by the police in southern Oregon. On Monday, the said cub was dropped in a large plastic storage bin at the police station by a teenager as said by Myrtle Creek Police Chief Don Brown. The small animal was found whimpering in the bushes outside his house on the outskirts of town by the said teen. It was dangerous on the part of the teen to pick up the cub apprehending the mother bear could have spotted him and attacked as opined by Brown.
Brown said that while spending the night at the station, the 12 pound bear cub was “very well behavedâ€. Moreover the search conducted for the cub’s mother by Police and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife officials using device that mimics a cub distress call was in vain.
Orphaned Black Bear Cub Spends Night with Cops in Oregon
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A veterinary check-up is being done to the orphaned cub at the University of Oregon. The bear cub is a female and is in generally good health as compared to other than being underweight as said by the Fish and Wildlife officials. Though not confirmed which one, but they said that the bear cub will be placed at a zoo.
“We’ve had two baby rattlesnakes brought into the station, but nobody has brought in a bear in the last nine years I’ve been here,†Brown explained. The Wildlife officials say that they are not aware as to what happened to the cub’s mother.
There have been no reports of a bear being hit by a car, nor hunter reported killing one and no dead bear has been found in the area as confirmed by the officials.
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