Orphaned black bear cubs ‘distressed and traumatized’ after mother shot in rural Manitoba: rescue owner

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    >”She was very vulnerable and she wasn’t a threat to anyone. She was just nursing her cubs and minding her own business,” she said.
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    >”You have to be pretty heartless to shoot a nursing mother with 10-week old cubs,” she said, adding the cubs would likely be attacked by predators or die of starvation in the wild without their mother.
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    >Stearns said there is a lot of misinformation around black bears and humans are often more afraid of them than they ought to be.
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    >The province says black bears are intelligent and shy, preferring to avoid humans. People should never approach or feed black bears, being sure to remove food sources from residential areas and campsites to avoid attracting the food-motivated animals, the province said.

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