Did you know that the Appalachian Bear Rescue Mission is bigger than taking care of injured and orphaned young bears to return them to the wild?
ABR cares for orphaned and injured black bear cubs for return to their natural wild habitat; increases public awareness about coexisting with black bears; and studies all aspects of returning cubs to the wild. As part of our efforts to increase public awareness about coexisting with black bears. back in 2020, ABR signed an agreement to serve as Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency's BearWise Tennessee Partner. We work with folks in our communities...individuals, homeowners' associations, businesses, cities, counties, etc. to promote the BearWise Basics and help keep people and bears safe.
Last year, our ABR volunteers and staff members worked together to assemble 1,000 retro-fit trash can strap kits. Each kit contains four straps and instructions to install the kits on flip-top trash cans. The kits may not keep every bear out of the trash every time, but they are a terrific deterrent and work most of the time.
This week the TWRA and ABR teams are working together to install the strap kits on cans in a subdivision in the City of Sevierville. A group of Amazon.com operations managers from around the state of Tennessee joined us on Monday to kick off the week. We went door-to-door delivering door hangers with information about the project. Homeowners were asked to leave their can at the street on Wednesday and Thursday and our teams would come by and install the kits. Yesterday, Curators Haley and Katrina and ABR Volunteer Ann joined TWRA Biologists Janelle and Dan to go can to can and install the kits. By the end of the day, more than 50 cans were more protected! The team is back out there today working on more cans and KEEPING PEOPLE AND BEARS SAFE!
We sometimes refer to unsecured human trash and birdseed as "gateway drugs" for bears. It may not seem like a big deal if a bear gets your birdseed or trash. Maybe you even take action and secure your trash and remove your bird feeders. But the bear has already learned a lesson. There's FOOD in those cans and feeders. And now, the bear has been brave enough to get that food reward. Even if you remove the temptation from your yard, the bear's bravery will grow. It will try every can and every feeder in the neighborhood. It doesn't take a long time and humans and the bear are in trouble.
Our cubs are doing well today. We provided the doctors at UTCVM a report on Tots Bear late yesterday. She's putting weight on her repaired arm. She still favors it some, but the bottom of her paw is firmly on the ground when she uses the leg. That's just what the doctors wanted to hear! The six other bears at ABR had their breakfast earlier this morning and are off and running.
Thank you for keeping our bears in your heart! Thank you for supporting our mission! We couldn't do our work with YOU!
Is there a place in upstate NY that can acquire these? I've seen a lot of posts on FB in my area about bears getting into garbage cans that are unsecured and worried people will shoot first and then ask questions😞
Can we order these straps for our cans?
Very important work! Thank you for taking care of the cubs and spreading awareness of how to keep all bears safe through community outreach. Each and every one of you are nothing short of ursine saints! 🩵🐻
Thank you to everyone involved. I wish I lived closer so I could volunteer ❤🐻❤
Everything that Melanie Davis Lanham said! You are amazing at what you do ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ Glad to see that Tots is not favoring her injured leg. Peeps is just the cutest little baby ever. Love all of our current residents 🙏🏻🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️
ABR you are awesome, fantastic, treasures, awe-inspiring, incredible and I could go on and on…..thank you for all you do
Love the proactive measures you do along with educating those that live in the communities where bear resides and the general public! Thank you ABR for all you do to protect the bear population in so many ways.❤️
Great prevention work. We won't know how many bears were saved, but we know it's going to save some! Hopefully word will spread about the straps as an inexpensive easy step homeowners can take for their own sakes as well as the bears.
they ripped a hole in the side of our trashcan, we now keep it in our porch or garage
Thanks to all for this important work! Glad to hear all the cubbies are doing well . ❤️🐻
One taste of heroine on the lips forever a danger for all wildlife anyone that had social media should already know this but glad you’re making progress !
Fabulous work ABR in getting so many trash cans secured and thus bear-proof. I do hope others will follow your lead and make their rubbish bins bear-proof.
When will the 5 cubs in Hartley House (not counting Peeps) move to an enclosure?
So grateful for all you do at ABR! 🙏🏼🤗❤️🤗🙏🏼
I love the work y'all do!
It has been just a year since I discovered this group and I’m hooked! I can’t wait to see what comes next.
I got to see the trash strap kits being made at ABR last year. Awesome job on all you do
Awesome organisation- caring and proactive
Glad to hear about tots. She’s going to recover well there.
Awesome job!
Should we just not have bird feeders out at all or maybe take them in at night ?
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Nia Bia Bearpaw
Glad to hear about tots. She’s going to recover well there.
Great to see Tots doing well. My wife and I were the ones who found her in Big South Fork initially and reported it to the rangers. Thanks for everything that you guys do.
I love their little legs!
Hello from Minnesota!
Happy Wednesday everyone!
It seems like when she is awake she is going nonstop ♥️
Hello everyone!
How are you going to eartag all the cubs that aren't tagged yet?
Loved Thumper Bear!
Peeps is a handful that will rule all the cubs in her enclosure! I love her spunkiness
Good afternoon from Wautoma Wisconsin!
Does Tots go back for a recheck soon?
And as always a reminder THANK YOU ABR 🐻❤️ very much appreciate your work 💪
Little tornado Peeps 🥰
They seem to love the swing 🥰
I got in!
Jelly has a Belly!!!
Good afternoon!
Someone is trying to cheat, using the swing as leverage 😂
Thank you curator Tori!
And the final weight before release day weight!
Jellybean reminds me of Thumper bear. The elephant cub. God rest his soul. 😔
She’s like my kitten: plays hard then conks out to sleep
Miss Delaney is laying in my lap listening to the recorded birds sing
Thank you so much to all of you at ABR for taking care of our beautiful bear family❤️❤️ it's so nice to know that there are places and people like you out there for the little ones who can't make it on their own
I have a question. I've been following you guys for many years and you guys have taught us a lot about black bears. You've mentioned that in the wild, female black bears don't come into maturity to mate until about 3 years of age. Has the wildlife officers, who tag the cubs, mentioned to you that your cubbies, who are released into the wild full of good food, tend to come into mating maturity sooner?
Thanks soo much ABR for the Updates for the Live Tour. 😀🏡🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🩵💛💞💚💜💛
am I somehow missing your daily posts on the rescued cubs?
All seven cubs at ABR are doing very well today. Tots Bear is resting a lot, but has a good appetite for her goat's milk and drinks her Pedialyte. She is taking medicines for pain management and antibiotics. Rest is exactly what she needs for now. The doctors at UTCVM believe her prognosis is good. We are just providing nourishment and a safe place to recover from her injuries.
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So happy that baby Tots is doing well after her surgery. Loved the picture of little Peeps with NAPB. Everyone else seems to be doing very well. I think you save the milk and porridge on the face and nose in case you get hungry during the night 😂. 🙏🏻🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️
Thank you for the update ❤ 🐻❤ I hope Tots gets to feeling better soon. I love watching the crazies. ❤🐻❤
Oh my goodness, I love watching them learn! All of them are so adorable! Precious little babies 💕💕💕 Thank y’all for the update. Continued prayers of healing for Tots 🐻💝
Oh, I was getting nervous! Seriously, caring for bears is turning me into an old woman! (worth it though!) Glad the cubbies are all well.❤️
I love all the updates, praying for all the cubbies, especially baby Tots for a speedy healing.
I love seeing them when they stand up like little kids! Thank you for the wonderful video!
Thank you for the update!!!!!!!!! and the video! SO fun to watch. Praying for Tots tonight
So pleased all the cubs are doing so well. Thank you to all for hard work and loving care! Oh my goodness, the Crazies are having such fun! Yay!
Continued prayers for Tots Bear. Love watching the videos!
They are living their best days of life now. I wish they were playing in the woods with their mother, they would be so happy.
Thanks ABR staff and all involved for giving them a second chance.
Enjoyed the video. Thanks ABR for giving them a second chance. It was nice visiting with you when we were in Townsend last week. I will continue to follow you. And I always look forward to the daily updates❤️
I just love "porridge nose" and "milk face". Thanks for the video. I've been concerned about Tots Bear today. Praying for more good days for her and healing. 🙏❤🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻
Baby bears are the best to watch! They are curious and full of energy!
Their play on the hose hammock is hilarious!!!
So happy that Tots and all the other cubs are doing well 🥰! It's so entertaining to see them play and climb. Thank you for the update ❤️
I love how our two littlest and more fragile cubbies are both resting, especially little Tots. It's fascinating how some of the cubbies in the outdoor areas are so distressed by the site of trees and sunshine that the outside view has to be blocked and others, like this trip, are perfectly comfortable inside/outside.
This Hartley House crew is a barrel of laughs.
My daily dose of cuteness ❤️🐻, it warms my heart to watch these cubs and to know that you guys exist 🙏
Did you get any babies from horrific ppl that grabbed from tree for photo
Glad to see them playing with the balls.
Love the porridge nose! 😂
Get well soon Tots 🐻
This is great!!!! These three are “ A Hoot”!!!! So healthy and happy, playful!!!! This is great!!! Praying for Tot’s healing!!! 🐻
So happy the babes are doing good! Continued prayers for speedy recovery and healing for Tots 🐻.
Tots Bear has returned from UTCVM-University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine, where she underwent surgery to repair a broken left humerus (the bone that runs from the shoulder to the elbow). Surgery on any bear is risky; we never know how they will respond to anesthesia. With a cub as young as Tots, the risks are higher. We're very happy to report that she did well during and after surgery and will be residing in The Cub Nursery while she recuperates. Tots came home with prescriptions for pain medication and antibiotics. She'll be taking the latter for the next ten days. She's on restricted movement for the next few weeks, which precludes any meeting with Peeps Bear, who is a rambunctious, pugilistic lass.🐻🥊
We're cautiously optimistic about Tots' prognosis; what worked against her in surgery (her size and youth) works in her favor now: bears this young heal quickly, and they don't carry much weight to stress their bones.
We’ve run out of superlatives to describe the good people at UTCVM-University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine. Our thanks to the surgery team: Dr. Ferrigno (lead surgeon), Dr. Bevelock (resident), Dr. Waligora, Kendall (zoo intern), Megan (zoo student)
Anesthesia: Dr. Sheldon (zoo), Dr. Pisack (anesthesia resident), Miriam (zoo student), and Monica Lee (anesthesia student).
They are always ready to help a bear cub in need. ❤️
Awesome news. Thank you. Big thanks to the vets and staff at UTCVM. 💖
Very good update on Tots, so relieved she is doing so well and is back at ABR. Her hardest part will be confinement while she heals, I’m sure the curators have great ideas on how to enrich her boredom while recovering and healing from surgery. Be well Tots, eat, sleep and mind your manners. 😉♥️🐻♥️
Thank you so much for keeping us posted informed. Such a little thing. Hopefully she will heal quickly & be so happy little girl. Sleep well Tots. Great news ABR and thank you UTCVM for helping Tots you are all awesome. 👍👍👍👍👍👍💙💙💙💙💙💙🐻🐻🐻
Thanks to the entire team for caring for our Tots Bear! One question, am I understanding correctly that Tots will have the plate in for the rest of her life?
Did she come to you with a broken shoulder?
Were they able to determine if her injuries were from an attack or a fall?
So glad to hear this great report and so thankful for UTCVM-University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine….
I know Tots will get wonderful care from all at ABR while she heals.🙏🏼❤️
❤️Many many thanks to all of the UTCVM medical team for taking such excellent care of little Tots! ❤️I have an interesting question: some people like me get very nauseous post op. Do bears suffer nausea post op, too?
Is the plate permanent or will it be removed at some point?
Good luck little Tots, continue healing so you can cause a little havoc with the other cubs, thank you to everyone for helping her, ❤️🙏
I’m so glad all went well with little Tots. Rest and recover little bear, we will be praying for you!
Great news! Thanks ABR and UTCVM! Get better soon, little Tots, so you can run and play!💗🐻
Glad she did well. Good wishes for a great recovery for sweet Tots.
A huge thanks to all the wonderful, dedicated people at the UTCVM! They are just fantastic and care so much for the little bears that they get to fix. 💖💖💖
Thank you so much for the update on our little Tots 🐻 ❤️ thank you so much for the amazing doctors that took care of this sweet little girl and to ABR for taking such excellent care our 🐻 family❤️❤️
Once again many thanks to all involved in the treatment of sweet baby Tots. We are so blessed to have all of this medical talent located so close to ABR. Now Tot’s just has to do her part by resting and recovering, so that some day she and Tiny Tornado Peeps can be friends 🙏🏻🐻♥️
Thank you to UTCVM-University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine. Without your medical expertise, these poor cubs would not be able to live!!
So happy she did well. Wishing you a speedy recovery sweet little one! Thanks to the teams at UTCVM and ABR for taking such good care of this little girl. 🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼❤️
Love your organization ❤️❤️❤️ thank you for giving bears a chance.
This is amazing. Thank you everyone who is helping the little bears.
Grateful for the vets as well as ABR!
Thank you for the update. You used your knowledge and experience, only the best for Tots Bear. Thank YOU!😊🌺
Wishing you a speedy recovery little Tots. Our love and prayers are with you. ❤️🙏🐻
Get well soon, Tots!
You're in great hands. ❤️
Bless her sweet little heart. Without y’all she would suffer terribly and die. God bless each of you who love these bears. Praying for Tots continuing recovery.
ABR Daily Update-April 22, 2024-Birthday/ Earth Day 🌎🎂
Weather: 55F (13C) Humidity 39%, Sunny 🌞
ABR chose January 22nd as the “official” birthdate for all bears who come to our facility. It falls roughly midway in the range of possible birthdates: January to mid-February. Today, Peeps, Tots, Daisy Mae, Duke, Jellybean, Casper, and Shadow are three months old. It’s also Earth Day; we take this opportunity to acknowledge that we all share the same planet, the same home. What affects one, affects all.
Our most recent arrival, Tots Bear, is scheduled to have surgery later today to repair a broken left humerus (the bone that runs from shoulder to elbow). Surgery is always a serious business, but it’s especially so for a little bear cub. We’re grateful to UTCVM-University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine; we’re confident that Tots is receiving the best care possible from the best doctors anywhere. We will inform you of her condition late this afternoon or early this evening.
At present, our cubs are making their home with us at the Appalachian Bear Rescue facility. With your help, they’ll return to their real home in the wild as soon as they’re big enough to get a second chance, probably at the end of this year. 🐻
Loving & laughing at every photo, comment & cub. Thank you, ABR, for your compassion & dedication.
Prayers for Tots Bear ❤ Happy Birthday to all the cubbies that are residents. Happy Birthday to all the former resident bears. I hope you are living your best life in the wild.❤🐻❤
Good luck all you little bears, seems like you’re acting just like little bears should 😊❤️
Prayers for Tots bear ❤️
Thanks for the wonderful pics with the happy cubs.
Prayers for Tots bear! ❤️🐻❤️ I look forward to watching all of them thrive and grow under your excellent care. Thank you for sharing them with us.
Prayers for Tots and her medical team today! 🙏❤️🩹
I love when the tiny ones standup like they are so mighty. Happy birthday to all of the little sweeties ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Waiting to hear the good news on Tots' surgery!
Happy birthday cubbies!!!
I’ll be thinking of you tots on your journey today
Happy Cubby Birthday precious babies! Glad everyone is doing well! Is there any way Tots could be Casper and Shadow’s lost sibling?? Just wondering 🤷🏼♀️ Prayers for sweet little Tots and her surgical team! Thank you for the update 💕💕
Hoping Tots is doing ok with the surgery. Poor baby. Lots of prayers they all seem to be happy at the moment with their accomodations. So glad they are comfy & are eating well. 🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻
Just got back home and saw this post. Prayers for little Tots. Happy Birthday to all of our current and former residents, and to all wild bears everywhere. Happy Earth Day as well 🙏🏻🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️
Saying prayers for Tots' surgery to be successful as well as a quick recovery. Happy cubby birthday to all current and former ABR bears. 🙏 ❤️ 🎂🐻💖
Sending prayers for our sweet Tots and Happy Cubby birthday to all our present and past bear kids. ♥️🐻🐾🙏🏻🙏🏻🎂
Happy Birthday to all the bears!❤️
Happy Birthday little bears! 🎉🎊
Positive thoughts for Tots. <3
Prayers for a safe surgery and recovery. Thank you for ALL you do.
Love and prayers for little Tots today for a successful surgery and recovery. She'll be as rambunctious as the rest before long!💗🐻🙏
Happy birthday babies!! Prayers that Tot’s surgery goes smoothly and she starts recovering quickly.
NICE WORK adding the extra limbs on the high beam for the boys' baby paws to have more grip while 'splorin' !!! That's definitely a step ahead of Shadow and Casper!!!
Prayers for Tots and happy earth day and happy birthday
Prayers sweet baby Tot. For your surgeons, your healing and your happiness.
Happy bear cub birthday!
Praying for little Tots bear. 🙏🐻❤️
Looking forward to her update.
Thank You for sharing!❤️
Thank you for your generous welcome of our newest resident, Tots Bear. Tots, a female cub, almost three months old, is resting in The Cub Nursery, awaiting surgery tomorrow to repair a broken left humerus (the bone that runs from shoulder to elbow). Though four of her baby teeth had to be extracted, and she’s on pain management medications and antibiotics, Tots has been lapping goat’s milk and Pedyalite from bowls fixed to her cage. Her plumbing is working well, and she’s spending most of her time sleeping.
A few of our friends asked how we came up with her name; Peeps reminded our Executive Director, Dana Dodd, of Doodlebug, a cub who also came from Kentucky. Doodle made a friend at ABR named Tater who came from the same area as Tots. Hence, “Tater Tots”. We hope Peeps and Tots will become good friends, like Doodle and Tater were during their stay at ABR.
Duke, Daisy Mae, and Jellybean have much in common with brothers Shadow and Casper who live next door: all five cubs have nothing but contempt for ABR property, are madly reckless, and generally just nuts with bouncy energy. It’s a true scientific fact that bear cubs and human toddlers will find the most dangerous thing in a room, and if there isn’t one, they will build it. To fuel their manic chaos, the cubs are eating a lot of Cubby Porridge (now with added berries) and drinking lots of water mixed with a little Pedyalite. We’re very glad the hooligans are still within the safe confines of Hartley House; they can exercise their right to challenge gravity close to the ground where it can’t hurt too much if they lose. 🐻💣
I’m so sorry for tots😕. I can’t imagine what happened to that poor little cubbie to create a broken bone and such a huge gash in her mouth.
I’m glad she’s eating and sleeping securely in her stuffed bear den.
LOVE the Doodle and Tater tribute for Peeps and Tots! Tater really was heaven sent for Doodlebug.
So glad Tots is drinking well and wish me a successful surgery tomorrow. He is in my prayers. All the other monsters Crack me up!!! I need to laugh. My good friend just diagnosed with breast cancer.
If it came from Ashville there's a video going around of people pulling two cubs from a tree for pictures. One was dropped and found. The other has not been found. Could this be tots?
Is Tots the cub from the Asheville area that people were taking the photos with?
Appalachian Bear Rescue Do the little ones hiss or growl at you? Like baby Tots? Sending prayers
So we're already up to 7 cubs?
Oh you cute as buttons , trouble making kids !!! Thank you for all your very informative posts !! I love all your cubs from afar. They are so lucky !!!!!!
Thank you for taking such good care of these babies! That's funny. I was just enjoying some Sweet Tater Butter this morning.
Good luck to Tots tomorrow. These little bears are so lucky to be at ABR where all of you love them so.
I thought of sweet Tater Bear when I saw you named the new cubby Tots. I love it & I love you all for what you do to help the cubbies.
Sweet Tots, keep eating and taking your meds like a good little bear 🐻💝
As for our other demolition “experts” keep practicing and perfecting your little bear skills 🐻💙🐻💝🐻💙 🐻💝 🐻💙🐻💙
Welcome Tots🐻. You are in a safe place where you will be cared for extremely well. You’ll feel like you are living in paradise (you really are). Be good bears and treat the people who are caring for you with kindness. 🤣🤣. Grow big and strong so that one day you can go back to your true home! ❤️
So thankful for ABR!!! Our furry friends need and love everyone of you💕. Thank you for all that you do
Great update!!
And thanks for continuing to add the BearWise info. I put it in comments often, when ppl complain about anything bear related.
You folks are amazing - those cubbies are certainly lucky to be cared for at ABR.
Thank you for mentioning Doodlebug! I hope that sweet little cub grew up strong and is living her Best Bear life! 💞
Prayers for Tots tomorrow 🙏 I am glad the rest of the cubbies are busy being cubbies. ❤🐻❤
Well helloooo and Good Morning Tots,welcome to ABR. Thanks soo much for sharing the Bearwise info.Well little Tots your now in Safe hands,you'll get the very best Care now. You've got an ABR Family that Loves You, will follow your stay at ABR!!🥰🐻🐾🐾💞💛🩵💜💛💚
Thanks for the wonderful fotos! All the best for Tots' surgery ❤️ 🫶 ♥️
Hang in there Tots. Hope you have a speedy recovery! The other cubs are enjoying themselves!!❤️
Love to all our cubs and those that care for them
Special prayers for Tots bear 🐻
So glad she found help💜🙏💟🐻
Poor baby, but you're in great hands now😓❤️
So glad Tots is resting well, and eating and taking care of business as well. I’m sure she will feel much better in her healing process, after surgery tomorrow. I so hope she and little Peeps can become roomies soon. As for the other cubs, it looks like they are doing very well at what cubs do, creating mayhem. 🙏🏻🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️
Prayers for Tots. Love all precious little babies!! 🙏❤🐻 💕
Thank you for all you do to give our orphaned and injured cubs a second chance at life back in the wild. We sincerely appreciate every "like" and "share", every donation, every membership, all who participate in ABR events, and everyone who shows support with purchases in our online and Visitor Center store. We feel your love and support every single day!
Here are a few special opportunities to support our cubs today:
THE 2024 MAMA BEAR TEE These will go quickly! Get your order in TODAY! The artwork features the adorable paw prints of our 2024 cubbies. They are Comfort Colors brand and are available in "Crunchberry" and "Emerald". These shirts are on the printing presses now and will ship in about a week. If you order additional items with these shirts, we will ship everything together when the shirts are here. appalachian-bear-rescue.myshopify.com/products/2024-mama-bear-tee
Sign Up TODAY for the 2024 BEAR FORCE WALK There's no force stronger than The Bear Force...and our cubs need YOU! Sign up today and join us in Townsend on June 1st (National Black Bear Day) at 10:00 a.m.to walk for your favorite little black bears. If you can't make it to Townsend, show your support from your hometown and send us a photo for the event video. appalachian-bear-rescue.myshopify.com/products/2024-bearly-5k-participant-sign-up
ADOPT Your Favorite Cub TODAY! OK...how can you have a favorite when all the cubs are adorable?? Every 2024 cub is available for adoption. We added little Tots Bear to the list just yesterday. Our ABR Curators will take Tots Bear to UTCVM for surgery to repair her broken arm tomorrow. Please keep Tots Bear and all of our cubs in your heart! appalachian-bear-rescue.myshopify.com/products/christmas-in-july-adopt-a-cub-special
I just did an adopt a bear for baby bear Tots for her medical care.
I mailed a money order to you, 2 weeks ago just wanted to know if you received it, tried emailing you, your box is full, I'm only in Maryville,
Has anyone found an accurate size chart for the Mama Bear shirt?
Are shirts for Bear Force Walk available in your shop?
Can you buy these in Townsend?
What's the largest size you carry
Just ordered my Mama Bear shirt and sent it to my friend in California 😆 I just really needed it, all the tiny paw prints 🥺 Hugs and kisses (for the cubs) from Switzerland 🇨🇭
I love all the shirts I have gotten from y’all in past years. I just ordered two of these.
Mama Bear shirt ordered. Prayers that little Tot Bear’s surgery goes well tomorrow. ❤️🙏
I just ordered one and adopted Tots Bear ❤🐻❤
Can't wait to get my new shirt. Sending healing prayers for Tots for his surgery 🙏🏻 ❤️ 🐻 Thank you for all that you do for our beautiful bears.
So excited I was hoping that you would have some T-shirts! My wardrobe needs some! I will be placing my order!
PLEASE create an event for this or I'm afraid I'll forget about it! 🐻🫶
What is the link for your online store?
Comfort Color is a great choice for the new shirts!
Just ordered my shirt yesterday. I am bummed that we will be in Townsend on vacation one week too late to do the walk!
How is Baby Tots doing this morning? ♥️
hopefully you’ll have all varieties of those beautiful shirts tomorrow,will stop and get one or two.
How does it work when you adopt a cub? Or cubs?
Just ordered mine!
Ordered my mama bear tee! Can’t wait to get it!
I just purchased a green shirt, I can't wait to get it! I also adopted Daisy Mae and Duke 🩷🐾🧸🩵🐾🧸 Precious Babies 🐾🐻
Beautiful colors! Prayers for little Tots Bear as she undergoes her surgery tomorrow. 🙏🏻🐻♥️
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With all the rooms occupied by different bears, how do you get the rooms cleaned 😬
I wasn’t aware of the AP’s attached to the RC 😊
How long do they usually play before they nap? It seems like perpetual motion until they just drop!
I LOVE seeing them standing upright and bashing each other about!😂
Good job Tots! 🐻♥️
Hi from.North Yorkshire 🏴
Tots is providing another learning experience for ABR 💞
Thank you so much Curator Tori. Have a great weekend everyone 🐻🥰
Hello all! Happy Friday!
ABR seems to react to every new challenge very well ♥️
Thank you Curator Tori
Looks like Daisy Mae, Duke & Jellybean are soon ready for outside?
In these parts, we call that “fruit basket shuffle” 😂
Thank you Curator Tori
Congratulations to Tots on the new digs!
I can just imagine a stuck bad leg with Tots trying to climb ♥️
Peeps is a little doll baby 🥰
The Rowdy boys lol
Mama Bears...we salute you!
Tots got upgraded?l! Hooray!
Hello! (From Michigan)
Is there a time that they are all asleep or is at least one awake all the time?
Good afternoon Curator Tori and bear friends 🐻😊
I always wave whenever I am by UT or Townsend
Where is Peeps?
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April 25, 2024: Did You Know?
Did you know that the Appalachian Bear Rescue Mission is bigger than taking care of injured and orphaned young bears to return them to the wild?
ABR cares for orphaned and injured black bear cubs for return to their natural wild habitat; increases public awareness about coexisting with black bears; and studies all aspects of returning cubs to the wild.
As part of our efforts to increase public awareness about coexisting with black bears. back in 2020, ABR signed an agreement to serve as Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency's BearWise Tennessee Partner. We work with folks in our communities...individuals, homeowners' associations, businesses, cities, counties, etc. to promote the BearWise Basics and help keep people and bears safe.
Last year, our ABR volunteers and staff members worked together to assemble 1,000 retro-fit trash can strap kits. Each kit contains four straps and instructions to install the kits on flip-top trash cans. The kits may not keep every bear out of the trash every time, but they are a terrific deterrent and work most of the time.
This week the TWRA and ABR teams are working together to install the strap kits on cans in a subdivision in the City of Sevierville. A group of Amazon.com operations managers from around the state of Tennessee joined us on Monday to kick off the week. We went door-to-door delivering door hangers with information about the project. Homeowners were asked to leave their can at the street on Wednesday and Thursday and our teams would come by and install the kits. Yesterday, Curators Haley and Katrina and ABR Volunteer Ann joined TWRA Biologists Janelle and Dan to go can to can and install the kits. By the end of the day, more than 50 cans were more protected! The team is back out there today working on more cans and KEEPING PEOPLE AND BEARS SAFE!
We sometimes refer to unsecured human trash and birdseed as "gateway drugs" for bears. It may not seem like a big deal if a bear gets your birdseed or trash. Maybe you even take action and secure your trash and remove your bird feeders. But the bear has already learned a lesson. There's FOOD in those cans and feeders. And now, the bear has been brave enough to get that food reward. Even if you remove the temptation from your yard, the bear's bravery will grow. It will try every can and every feeder in the neighborhood. It doesn't take a long time and humans and the bear are in trouble.
Our cubs are doing well today. We provided the doctors at UTCVM a report on Tots Bear late yesterday. She's putting weight on her repaired arm. She still favors it some, but the bottom of her paw is firmly on the ground when she uses the leg. That's just what the doctors wanted to hear! The six other bears at ABR had their breakfast earlier this morning and are off and running.
Thank you for keeping our bears in your heart! Thank you for supporting our mission! We couldn't do our work with YOU!
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Is there a place in upstate NY that can acquire these? I've seen a lot of posts on FB in my area about bears getting into garbage cans that are unsecured and worried people will shoot first and then ask questions😞
Can we order these straps for our cans?
Very important work! Thank you for taking care of the cubs and spreading awareness of how to keep all bears safe through community outreach. Each and every one of you are nothing short of ursine saints! 🩵🐻
Thank you to everyone involved. I wish I lived closer so I could volunteer ❤🐻❤
Everything that Melanie Davis Lanham said! You are amazing at what you do ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ Glad to see that Tots is not favoring her injured leg. Peeps is just the cutest little baby ever. Love all of our current residents 🙏🏻🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️
ABR you are awesome, fantastic, treasures, awe-inspiring, incredible and I could go on and on…..thank you for all you do
Love the proactive measures you do along with educating those that live in the communities where bear resides and the general public! Thank you ABR for all you do to protect the bear population in so many ways.❤️
Great prevention work. We won't know how many bears were saved, but we know it's going to save some! Hopefully word will spread about the straps as an inexpensive easy step homeowners can take for their own sakes as well as the bears.
they ripped a hole in the side of our trashcan, we now keep it in our porch or garage
Thanks to all for this important work! Glad to hear all the cubbies are doing well . ❤️🐻
One taste of heroine on the lips forever a danger for all wildlife anyone that had social media should already know this but glad you’re making progress !
Fabulous work ABR in getting so many trash cans secured and thus bear-proof. I do hope others will follow your lead and make their rubbish bins bear-proof.
When will the 5 cubs in Hartley House (not counting Peeps) move to an enclosure?
So grateful for all you do at ABR! 🙏🏼🤗❤️🤗🙏🏼
I love the work y'all do!
It has been just a year since I discovered this group and I’m hooked! I can’t wait to see what comes next.
I got to see the trash strap kits being made at ABR last year. Awesome job on all you do
Awesome organisation- caring and proactive
Glad to hear about tots. She’s going to recover well there.
Awesome job!
Should we just not have bird feeders out at all or maybe take them in at night ?
<3
Nia Bia Bearpaw
Glad to hear about tots. She’s going to recover well there.
LOVE ABR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Great to see Tots doing well. My wife and I were the ones who found her in Big South Fork initially and reported it to the rangers. Thanks for everything that you guys do.
I love their little legs!
Hello from Minnesota!
Happy Wednesday everyone!
It seems like when she is awake she is going nonstop ♥️
Hello everyone!
How are you going to eartag all the cubs that aren't tagged yet?
Loved Thumper Bear!
Peeps is a handful that will rule all the cubs in her enclosure! I love her spunkiness
Good afternoon from Wautoma Wisconsin!
Does Tots go back for a recheck soon?
And as always a reminder THANK YOU ABR 🐻❤️ very much appreciate your work 💪
Little tornado Peeps 🥰
They seem to love the swing 🥰
I got in!
Jelly has a Belly!!!
Good afternoon!
Someone is trying to cheat, using the swing as leverage 😂
Thank you curator Tori!
And the final weight before release day weight!
Jellybean reminds me of Thumper bear. The elephant cub. God rest his soul. 😔
She’s like my kitten: plays hard then conks out to sleep
Miss Delaney is laying in my lap listening to the recorded birds sing
I adopted Daisy Mae and Duke!
All that energy, look at them 😆
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Thank you so much to all of you at ABR for taking care of our beautiful bear family❤️❤️ it's so nice to know that there are places and people like you out there for the little ones who can't make it on their own
I have a question. I've been following you guys for many years and you guys have taught us a lot about black bears. You've mentioned that in the wild, female black bears don't come into maturity to mate until about 3 years of age. Has the wildlife officers, who tag the cubs, mentioned to you that your cubbies, who are released into the wild full of good food, tend to come into mating maturity sooner?
Thanks soo much ABR for the Updates for the Live Tour. 😀🏡🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🩵💛💞💚💜💛
am I somehow missing your daily posts on the rescued cubs?
April 23, 2024: Cubby Update
All seven cubs at ABR are doing very well today. Tots Bear is resting a lot, but has a good appetite for her goat's milk and drinks her Pedialyte. She is taking medicines for pain management and antibiotics. Rest is exactly what she needs for now. The doctors at UTCVM believe her prognosis is good. We are just providing nourishment and a safe place to recover from her injuries.
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So happy that baby Tots is doing well after her surgery. Loved the picture of little Peeps with NAPB. Everyone else seems to be doing very well. I think you save the milk and porridge on the face and nose in case you get hungry during the night 😂. 🙏🏻🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️
Thank you for the update ❤ 🐻❤ I hope Tots gets to feeling better soon. I love watching the crazies. ❤🐻❤
Oh my goodness, I love watching them learn! All of them are so adorable! Precious little babies 💕💕💕 Thank y’all for the update. Continued prayers of healing for Tots 🐻💝
Oh, I was getting nervous! Seriously, caring for bears is turning me into an old woman! (worth it though!) Glad the cubbies are all well.❤️
I love all the updates, praying for all the cubbies, especially baby Tots for a speedy healing.
I love seeing them when they stand up like little kids! Thank you for the wonderful video!
Thank you for the update!!!!!!!!! and the video! SO fun to watch. Praying for Tots tonight
So pleased all the cubs are doing so well. Thank you to all for hard work and loving care! Oh my goodness, the Crazies are having such fun! Yay!
Continued prayers for Tots Bear. Love watching the videos!
They are living their best days of life now. I wish they were playing in the woods with their mother, they would be so happy. Thanks ABR staff and all involved for giving them a second chance.
Enjoyed the video. Thanks ABR for giving them a second chance. It was nice visiting with you when we were in Townsend last week. I will continue to follow you. And I always look forward to the daily updates❤️
I just love "porridge nose" and "milk face". Thanks for the video. I've been concerned about Tots Bear today. Praying for more good days for her and healing. 🙏❤🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻
Baby bears are the best to watch! They are curious and full of energy!
Their play on the hose hammock is hilarious!!!
So happy that Tots and all the other cubs are doing well 🥰! It's so entertaining to see them play and climb. Thank you for the update ❤️
I love how our two littlest and more fragile cubbies are both resting, especially little Tots. It's fascinating how some of the cubbies in the outdoor areas are so distressed by the site of trees and sunshine that the outside view has to be blocked and others, like this trip, are perfectly comfortable inside/outside.
This Hartley House crew is a barrel of laughs.
My daily dose of cuteness ❤️🐻, it warms my heart to watch these cubs and to know that you guys exist 🙏
Did you get any babies from horrific ppl that grabbed from tree for photo
Glad to see them playing with the balls.
Love the porridge nose! 😂
Get well soon Tots 🐻
This is great!!!! These three are “ A Hoot”!!!! So healthy and happy, playful!!!! This is great!!! Praying for Tot’s healing!!! 🐻
So happy the babes are doing good! Continued prayers for speedy recovery and healing for Tots 🐻.
Thank you for the update. 😊
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ABR Update #2-April 22, 2024-Tots Doing Well 🐻
Tots Bear has returned from UTCVM-University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine, where she underwent surgery to repair a broken left humerus (the bone that runs from the shoulder to the elbow). Surgery on any bear is risky; we never know how they will respond to anesthesia. With a cub as young as Tots, the risks are higher. We're very happy to report that she did well during and after surgery and will be residing in The Cub Nursery while she recuperates. Tots came home with prescriptions for pain medication and antibiotics. She'll be taking the latter for the next ten days. She's on restricted movement for the next few weeks, which precludes any meeting with Peeps Bear, who is a rambunctious, pugilistic lass.🐻🥊
We're cautiously optimistic about Tots' prognosis; what worked against her in surgery (her size and youth) works in her favor now: bears this young heal quickly, and they don't carry much weight to stress their bones.
We’ve run out of superlatives to describe the good people at UTCVM-University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine. Our thanks to the surgery team: Dr. Ferrigno (lead surgeon), Dr. Bevelock (resident), Dr. Waligora, Kendall (zoo intern), Megan (zoo student)
Anesthesia: Dr. Sheldon (zoo), Dr. Pisack (anesthesia resident), Miriam (zoo student), and Monica Lee (anesthesia student).
They are always ready to help a bear cub in need. ❤️
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Awesome news. Thank you. Big thanks to the vets and staff at UTCVM. 💖
Very good update on Tots, so relieved she is doing so well and is back at ABR. Her hardest part will be confinement while she heals, I’m sure the curators have great ideas on how to enrich her boredom while recovering and healing from surgery. Be well Tots, eat, sleep and mind your manners. 😉♥️🐻♥️
Thank you so much for keeping us posted informed. Such a little thing. Hopefully she will heal quickly & be so happy little girl. Sleep well Tots. Great news ABR and thank you UTCVM for helping Tots you are all awesome. 👍👍👍👍👍👍💙💙💙💙💙💙🐻🐻🐻
Thanks to the entire team for caring for our Tots Bear! One question, am I understanding correctly that Tots will have the plate in for the rest of her life?
Did she come to you with a broken shoulder?
Were they able to determine if her injuries were from an attack or a fall?
So glad to hear this great report and so thankful for UTCVM-University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine…. I know Tots will get wonderful care from all at ABR while she heals.🙏🏼❤️
❤️Many many thanks to all of the UTCVM medical team for taking such excellent care of little Tots! ❤️I have an interesting question: some people like me get very nauseous post op. Do bears suffer nausea post op, too?
Is the plate permanent or will it be removed at some point?
Good luck little Tots, continue healing so you can cause a little havoc with the other cubs, thank you to everyone for helping her, ❤️🙏
I’m so glad all went well with little Tots. Rest and recover little bear, we will be praying for you!
Great news! Thanks ABR and UTCVM! Get better soon, little Tots, so you can run and play!💗🐻
Glad she did well. Good wishes for a great recovery for sweet Tots.
A huge thanks to all the wonderful, dedicated people at the UTCVM! They are just fantastic and care so much for the little bears that they get to fix. 💖💖💖
Thank you so much for the update on our little Tots 🐻 ❤️ thank you so much for the amazing doctors that took care of this sweet little girl and to ABR for taking such excellent care our 🐻 family❤️❤️
Once again many thanks to all involved in the treatment of sweet baby Tots. We are so blessed to have all of this medical talent located so close to ABR. Now Tot’s just has to do her part by resting and recovering, so that some day she and Tiny Tornado Peeps can be friends 🙏🏻🐻♥️
Thank you to UTCVM-University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine. Without your medical expertise, these poor cubs would not be able to live!!
So happy she did well. Wishing you a speedy recovery sweet little one! Thanks to the teams at UTCVM and ABR for taking such good care of this little girl. 🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼❤️
Love your organization ❤️❤️❤️ thank you for giving bears a chance.
This is amazing. Thank you everyone who is helping the little bears.
Grateful for the vets as well as ABR!
Thank you for the update. You used your knowledge and experience, only the best for Tots Bear. Thank YOU!😊🌺
Wishing you a speedy recovery little Tots. Our love and prayers are with you. ❤️🙏🐻
Get well soon, Tots! You're in great hands. ❤️
Bless her sweet little heart. Without y’all she would suffer terribly and die. God bless each of you who love these bears. Praying for Tots continuing recovery.
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ABR Daily Update-April 22, 2024-Birthday/ Earth Day 🌎🎂
Weather: 55F (13C) Humidity 39%, Sunny 🌞
ABR chose January 22nd as the “official” birthdate for all bears who come to our facility. It falls roughly midway in the range of possible birthdates: January to mid-February. Today, Peeps, Tots, Daisy Mae, Duke, Jellybean, Casper, and Shadow are three months old. It’s also Earth Day; we take this opportunity to acknowledge that we all share the same planet, the same home. What affects one, affects all.
Our most recent arrival, Tots Bear, is scheduled to have surgery later today to repair a broken left humerus (the bone that runs from shoulder to elbow). Surgery is always a serious business, but it’s especially so for a little bear cub. We’re grateful to UTCVM-University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine; we’re confident that Tots is receiving the best care possible from the best doctors anywhere. We will inform you of her condition late this afternoon or early this evening.
At present, our cubs are making their home with us at the Appalachian Bear Rescue facility. With your help, they’ll return to their real home in the wild as soon as they’re big enough to get a second chance, probably at the end of this year. 🐻
❤️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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Loving & laughing at every photo, comment & cub. Thank you, ABR, for your compassion & dedication.
Prayers for Tots Bear ❤ Happy Birthday to all the cubbies that are residents. Happy Birthday to all the former resident bears. I hope you are living your best life in the wild.❤🐻❤
Good luck all you little bears, seems like you’re acting just like little bears should 😊❤️
Prayers for Tots bear ❤️ Thanks for the wonderful pics with the happy cubs.
Prayers for Tots bear! ❤️🐻❤️ I look forward to watching all of them thrive and grow under your excellent care. Thank you for sharing them with us.
Prayers for Tots and her medical team today! 🙏❤️🩹
I love when the tiny ones standup like they are so mighty. Happy birthday to all of the little sweeties ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Waiting to hear the good news on Tots' surgery!
Happy birthday cubbies!!! I’ll be thinking of you tots on your journey today
Happy Cubby Birthday precious babies! Glad everyone is doing well! Is there any way Tots could be Casper and Shadow’s lost sibling?? Just wondering 🤷🏼♀️ Prayers for sweet little Tots and her surgical team! Thank you for the update 💕💕
Hoping Tots is doing ok with the surgery. Poor baby. Lots of prayers they all seem to be happy at the moment with their accomodations. So glad they are comfy & are eating well. 🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻
Just got back home and saw this post. Prayers for little Tots. Happy Birthday to all of our current and former residents, and to all wild bears everywhere. Happy Earth Day as well 🙏🏻🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️
Saying prayers for Tots' surgery to be successful as well as a quick recovery. Happy cubby birthday to all current and former ABR bears. 🙏 ❤️ 🎂🐻💖
Sending prayers for our sweet Tots and Happy Cubby birthday to all our present and past bear kids. ♥️🐻🐾🙏🏻🙏🏻🎂
Happy Birthday to all the bears!❤️
Happy Birthday little bears! 🎉🎊
Positive thoughts for Tots. <3
Prayers for a safe surgery and recovery. Thank you for ALL you do.
Love and prayers for little Tots today for a successful surgery and recovery. She'll be as rambunctious as the rest before long!💗🐻🙏
Happy birthday babies!! Prayers that Tot’s surgery goes smoothly and she starts recovering quickly.
NICE WORK adding the extra limbs on the high beam for the boys' baby paws to have more grip while 'splorin' !!! That's definitely a step ahead of Shadow and Casper!!!
Prayers for Tots and happy earth day and happy birthday
Prayers sweet baby Tot. For your surgeons, your healing and your happiness.
Happy bear cub birthday!
Praying for little Tots bear. 🙏🐻❤️ Looking forward to her update. Thank You for sharing!❤️
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ABR Daily Update-April 21, 2024- Hooligans!🐻
Weather: 49F (9c) Humidity 69%, Partly Cloudy 🌤️
Thank you for your generous welcome of our newest resident, Tots Bear. Tots, a female cub, almost three months old, is resting in The Cub Nursery, awaiting surgery tomorrow to repair a broken left humerus (the bone that runs from shoulder to elbow). Though four of her baby teeth had to be extracted, and she’s on pain management medications and antibiotics, Tots has been lapping goat’s milk and Pedyalite from bowls fixed to her cage. Her plumbing is working well, and she’s spending most of her time sleeping.
A few of our friends asked how we came up with her name; Peeps reminded our Executive Director, Dana Dodd, of Doodlebug, a cub who also came from Kentucky. Doodle made a friend at ABR named Tater who came from the same area as Tots. Hence, “Tater Tots”. We hope Peeps and Tots will become good friends, like Doodle and Tater were during their stay at ABR.
Duke, Daisy Mae, and Jellybean have much in common with brothers Shadow and Casper who live next door: all five cubs have nothing but contempt for ABR property, are madly reckless, and generally just nuts with bouncy energy. It’s a true scientific fact that bear cubs and human toddlers will find the most dangerous thing in a room, and if there isn’t one, they will build it. To fuel their manic chaos, the cubs are eating a lot of Cubby Porridge (now with added berries) and drinking lots of water mixed with a little Pedyalite. We’re very glad the hooligans are still within the safe confines of Hartley House; they can exercise their right to challenge gravity close to the ground where it can’t hurt too much if they lose. 🐻💣
❤️ 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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I’m so sorry for tots😕. I can’t imagine what happened to that poor little cubbie to create a broken bone and such a huge gash in her mouth. I’m glad she’s eating and sleeping securely in her stuffed bear den.
LOVE the Doodle and Tater tribute for Peeps and Tots! Tater really was heaven sent for Doodlebug.
So glad Tots is drinking well and wish me a successful surgery tomorrow. He is in my prayers. All the other monsters Crack me up!!! I need to laugh. My good friend just diagnosed with breast cancer.
If it came from Ashville there's a video going around of people pulling two cubs from a tree for pictures. One was dropped and found. The other has not been found. Could this be tots?
Is Tots the cub from the Asheville area that people were taking the photos with?
Appalachian Bear Rescue Do the little ones hiss or growl at you? Like baby Tots? Sending prayers
So we're already up to 7 cubs?
Oh you cute as buttons , trouble making kids !!! Thank you for all your very informative posts !! I love all your cubs from afar. They are so lucky !!!!!!
Thank you for taking such good care of these babies! That's funny. I was just enjoying some Sweet Tater Butter this morning.
Good luck to Tots tomorrow. These little bears are so lucky to be at ABR where all of you love them so.
I thought of sweet Tater Bear when I saw you named the new cubby Tots. I love it & I love you all for what you do to help the cubbies.
Sweet Tots, keep eating and taking your meds like a good little bear 🐻💝 As for our other demolition “experts” keep practicing and perfecting your little bear skills 🐻💙🐻💝🐻💙 🐻💝 🐻💙🐻💙
Welcome Tots🐻. You are in a safe place where you will be cared for extremely well. You’ll feel like you are living in paradise (you really are). Be good bears and treat the people who are caring for you with kindness. 🤣🤣. Grow big and strong so that one day you can go back to your true home! ❤️
So thankful for ABR!!! Our furry friends need and love everyone of you💕. Thank you for all that you do
Great update!! And thanks for continuing to add the BearWise info. I put it in comments often, when ppl complain about anything bear related.
You folks are amazing - those cubbies are certainly lucky to be cared for at ABR.
Thank you for mentioning Doodlebug! I hope that sweet little cub grew up strong and is living her Best Bear life! 💞
Prayers for Tots tomorrow 🙏 I am glad the rest of the cubbies are busy being cubbies. ❤🐻❤
Well helloooo and Good Morning Tots,welcome to ABR. Thanks soo much for sharing the Bearwise info.Well little Tots your now in Safe hands,you'll get the very best Care now. You've got an ABR Family that Loves You, will follow your stay at ABR!!🥰🐻🐾🐾💞💛🩵💜💛💚
Thanks for the wonderful fotos! All the best for Tots' surgery ❤️ 🫶 ♥️
Hang in there Tots. Hope you have a speedy recovery! The other cubs are enjoying themselves!!❤️
Love to all our cubs and those that care for them Special prayers for Tots bear 🐻 So glad she found help💜🙏💟🐻
Poor baby, but you're in great hands now😓❤️
So glad Tots is resting well, and eating and taking care of business as well. I’m sure she will feel much better in her healing process, after surgery tomorrow. I so hope she and little Peeps can become roomies soon. As for the other cubs, it looks like they are doing very well at what cubs do, creating mayhem. 🙏🏻🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️🐻♥️
Prayers for Tots. Love all precious little babies!! 🙏❤🐻 💕
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April 21, 2024: Keep Cubs In Your Heart
Thank you for all you do to give our orphaned and injured cubs a second chance at life back in the wild. We sincerely appreciate every "like" and "share", every donation, every membership, all who participate in ABR events, and everyone who shows support with purchases in our online and Visitor Center store. We feel your love and support every single day!
Here are a few special opportunities to support our cubs today:
THE 2024 MAMA BEAR TEE
These will go quickly! Get your order in TODAY! The artwork features the adorable paw prints of our 2024 cubbies. They are Comfort Colors brand and are available in "Crunchberry" and "Emerald". These shirts are on the printing presses now and will ship in about a week. If you order additional items with these shirts, we will ship everything together when the shirts are here.
appalachian-bear-rescue.myshopify.com/products/2024-mama-bear-tee
Sign Up TODAY for the 2024 BEAR FORCE WALK
There's no force stronger than The Bear Force...and our cubs need YOU! Sign up today and join us in Townsend on June 1st (National Black Bear Day) at 10:00 a.m.to walk for your favorite little black bears. If you can't make it to Townsend, show your support from your hometown and send us a photo for the event video.
appalachian-bear-rescue.myshopify.com/products/2024-bearly-5k-participant-sign-up
ADOPT Your Favorite Cub TODAY!
OK...how can you have a favorite when all the cubs are adorable?? Every 2024 cub is available for adoption. We added little Tots Bear to the list just yesterday. Our ABR Curators will take Tots Bear to UTCVM for surgery to repair her broken arm tomorrow. Please keep Tots Bear and all of our cubs in your heart!
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Thank you for your support! YOU give our little bears a second chance at life in the wild. We couldn't do our work without YOU!
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I just did an adopt a bear for baby bear Tots for her medical care.
I mailed a money order to you, 2 weeks ago just wanted to know if you received it, tried emailing you, your box is full, I'm only in Maryville,
Has anyone found an accurate size chart for the Mama Bear shirt?
Are shirts for Bear Force Walk available in your shop?
Can you buy these in Townsend?
What's the largest size you carry
Just ordered my Mama Bear shirt and sent it to my friend in California 😆 I just really needed it, all the tiny paw prints 🥺 Hugs and kisses (for the cubs) from Switzerland 🇨🇭
I love all the shirts I have gotten from y’all in past years. I just ordered two of these.
Mama Bear shirt ordered. Prayers that little Tot Bear’s surgery goes well tomorrow. ❤️🙏
I just ordered one and adopted Tots Bear ❤🐻❤
Can't wait to get my new shirt. Sending healing prayers for Tots for his surgery 🙏🏻 ❤️ 🐻 Thank you for all that you do for our beautiful bears.
So excited I was hoping that you would have some T-shirts! My wardrobe needs some! I will be placing my order!
PLEASE create an event for this or I'm afraid I'll forget about it! 🐻🫶
What is the link for your online store?
Comfort Color is a great choice for the new shirts!
Just ordered my shirt yesterday. I am bummed that we will be in Townsend on vacation one week too late to do the walk!
How is Baby Tots doing this morning? ♥️
hopefully you’ll have all varieties of those beautiful shirts tomorrow,will stop and get one or two.
How does it work when you adopt a cub? Or cubs?
Just ordered mine!
Ordered my mama bear tee! Can’t wait to get it!
I just purchased a green shirt, I can't wait to get it! I also adopted Daisy Mae and Duke 🩷🐾🧸🩵🐾🧸 Precious Babies 🐾🐻
Beautiful colors! Prayers for little Tots Bear as she undergoes her surgery tomorrow. 🙏🏻🐻♥️
Best Wishes for that new Baby Bear.
Great looking tshirts.
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