Appalachian Bear Rescue (ABR) is a black bear rescue facility located just outside of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Townsend, Tennessee. ABR is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization that has been returning black bears back to the wild since 1996. Each year black bears from our national parks and surrounding areas are orphaned, injured, or in need of medical care. Thanks to Appalachian Bear Rescue, these bears are given a second chance at life in the wild.
Crockett finished taking the antibiotics prescribed following the extraction of one of his baby incisors. He's free to meet the rowdies next door should the curators determine he can handle them. He's still a timid fellow, more in tune with Rags than with Scruffy, but it's a two-for-one deal, so if he meets Rags, he'll meet Scruffy too.🐻🐻🐻
The cubs in the Wild Enclosure #2 decided it was a good idea to leave their platforms, climb a tree, and spy on the cubs in Wild Enclosure #1. They've been up there for hours, and we'd love to know what they're thinking. We hope it doesn't involve plotting to unite with the other bears and stage an overthrow of ABR. We don't approve of revolutionary cubs. Never have, never will.🚫
The "outside" cubs are offered gallons of peanuts and apples, and they do their best to eat everything. Eating is their main occupation of late, and that will continue until they return to the wild in a few weeks. The fat they're storing now will help them survive winter and hibernation after their release.
Two of the "indoor" cubbies get peanuts, shelled walnuts, apples, and acorns. Rags and Scruffy decided they like apples, even when they're not chopped. Crockett gets a bowl of bear milk replacement formula and more shelled walnuts in lieu of peanuts. At this stage of his recovery, we want him to eat as much as he can with as little effort as possible, and shelling peanuts is tiresome, even for humans. Scruffy and Rags are really interested in Crockett. Well, Scruffy more than Rags, but both siblings went to the gate to check out the new kid. Crockett is curious too, but he's easily startled, sometimes by the equally startled Rags.🐻🐻
ABR Daily Update-November 24, 2024-Mischief in the Mist.🌫️🐻
Weather: 62F (17C) Humidity 36%, Sunny 🌞
It was foggy this morning, and our cubs played at “Gorillas in the Mist,” though “Monkeys in the Fog” would have been more appropriate. It seems our 26 “outside” bears are curious, chonky, and completely illiterate. In yesterday’s post, we stated that “they [the cubs] are becoming a bit lazier these days.” However, the little bears in WE#1 didn’t get the memo; they staged another meeting of Cubby Fight Club! Heads were bopped, and ears were rearranged. Oddly, one miscreant took a break from the action to roll up what’s left of the sod we put down!🐻🤔
Cubs are good at rolling up sod, but not at laying it. They’re excellent at wrecking plumbing, but not at installing it. Little bears are superb at murdalizing saplings, but not at planting them. This makes it hard for them to find employment outside the forest, which is a good thing; the forest is their home, and our curious, chonky, illiterate delinquents will be returning to it in a few weeks.
We don’t think the three “inside” cubs can read either, but Rags and Scruffy are putting on weight, and so is their neighbor, Crockett. The curators are happy with their progress and thank you for your support.❤️🐻🐻🐻
In case you missed our earlier post, we’re very happy to announce that BOTH Appalachian Wildlife Refuge and Linville-Central Rescue Squad won top prizes from the Defender Service Awards! Both groups won $25,000 each and Land Rover Defenders. Thank you for your daily votes! They put these two worthy organizations over the top! 👏👏👏
So happy to hear that Appalachian Wildlife Refuge and Linville-Central Rescue Squad won the Defender Service Awards. Both are very deserving. Glad all our cub kids are doing well.♥️🐻🐾
Glad that all of our cubbies are doing well, although sadly their enclosures are not fairing so well. Also very glad that the three HH babies are doing so well and that Crockett might get to meet his neighbors soon. Congratulations again to both Appalachian Wildlife Refuge and Linville-Central Rescue Squad for winning top prizes in the Defender Service Awards! 🙏🏻🐻♥️x29 plus curators
That's awesome to hear about those organizations! You really helped them by telling us about them...I voted every day because of y'all. Thank you for your work for the bears and for a better world.
We are thrilled to announce that BOTH Appalachian Wildlife Refuge and Linville-Central Rescue Squad won top prizes from the Defender Service Awards! Both groups won $25,000 each and Land Rover Defenders. Thank you for your daily votes! They put these two worthy organizations over the top! 👏👏👏
I’m so ecstatic for both agencies! Since I don’t have money for donating, being able to vote for worthy agencies to win big warms my heart that I could help them!
Thank you so much Appalachian Bear Rescue and all your supporters. You made this happen! It takes a village and your village really came through for us. ❤️Appalachian Wildlife Refuge
So happy for both. I voted for both almost everyday.Thsnks for letting us know to vote.
You asked and we finally delivered! Wear your ABR support with this ABR logo full-zip hoodie.
Hoodie sweatshirt is Next Level brand in the Midnight Navy color.
These sweatshirts run smaller than the Comfort Colors tees that we sell in our store. They have a more athletic fit. You might consider ordering one size larger if you want a roomier fit.
Yay! I'm pretty sure my friends think ABR is a clothing brand, I wear so much of it!
Thank you for your shout out to Appalachian Wildlife Refuge and Linville-Central Rescue Squad, because of you, I voted!!! So happy they both were winners!!!
I would need to physically try on. I forgot - what are the hours?
ABR Daily Update-November 23, 2024-From Malnourished to Curious 🐻
Weather: 53F (12C) Humidity 55%, Partly cloudy 🌤️
The curators are encouraged by Crockett’s progress; he is eating well and is more alert than he was a few days ago. We never know how things will turn out for cubs who come to us in such malnourished condition, so we’re pleased that this little guy is responding positively to good food. He shows interest in his neighbors, and at least one of them, Scruffy, seems to reciprocate. They can smell each other through the closed gate and even try to open it. Crockett must finish his antibiotics before the curators can consider introducing him to Rags and Scruffy.
The cubs in Enclosure #3 were back in the “moonscape,” digging. They are becoming a bit lazier these days, but their appetite remains strong. Thank you for helping us fill their seemingly bottomless tummies!🐻❤️
🗓️Our 2025 calendars are available for purchase at our online store along with other items unique to ABR. We’ sorry, but orders are restricted to the USA only. Please click on the link below. appalachian-bear-rescue.myshopify.com/
Thank you for the positive update on sweet little Crockett. I don’t blame him for wanting privacy to sleep. I assume that makes him feel safer. I hope he gets to join Rags and Scruffy soon so that
Rags can have someone
closer to his size to pal around with. I still hope the cubs in WE3 manage to strike oil before they leave. Wouldn’t that be nice!
🙏🏻🐻♥️x29 plus curators
Keep up the good work Crockett! So glad all the other “babies” are doing well! Thank y’all for the update and all your dedication to our precious bears 🐻💕
I am so happy they are doing well - especially Rags and Crockett!!! ❤️🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸💕
Our twenty-nine resident bear cubs are now ten months old! ABR chose January 22 as our bears’ “official” birthday, as it falls roughly midway in the range of possible birthdates (early January to early February). Life hasn’t been kind to our cubs, but thanks to your compassion, they are celebrating another birthday. 🎉🐻❤️
Crockett is enjoying shelled walnuts, chopped apples, and peanut butter, and is still taking his antibiotic (mixed in honey) to help ward off infection at the site of his extracted baby tooth. He’s sleeping and eating well, and his plumbing is top-notch. He needs to rest and eat, and thanks to you, we can provide him with a safe place and food to do both. 🐻
Rags and his brother Scruffy are tolerating life in Hartley House. They’re eating well and playing; Rags is holding his own with his much larger big brother who is a very frisky cub. Very frisky! 🐻🐻
Over the last few days, our curators took photos of the cubs the old fashioned way: with a camera and a lot of patience. We hope you enjoy them and we thank you for helping us help the little bears. Happy birthday to all bears, past and present! As always, we remember those who didn’t get to see this birthday. Their memory remains alive in all who knew them. 🐻❤️🎂
🗓️Our 2025 calendars are available for purchase at our online store along with other items unique to ABR. We’ sorry, but orders are restricted to the USA only. Please click on the link below. appalachian-bear-rescue.myshopify.com/
Such beautiful bears, and to think how tiny and frail they were! ABR you do wonders for these precious little cubs! Thank you! May they all live long lives.
Question on ear tags: Do they have a number on them too? I mean, there's only so many combinations of color pairs compared to how many bears are tagged...
For today’s post, we urge you to watch the below video from WVLT News. ABR’s Operations Director, Greg Grieco, has spent the last couple of months working with reporters to craft a complete picture of the challenges black bears are facing in eastern Tennessee. This is great progress for our community, for bear cubs, and for BearWise efforts.
THANK YOU to WVLT for working with ABR to highlight this important issue and THANK YOU to all of YOU!! This is no doubt a result of your endless support and efforts to help us spread BearWise messaging. Change takes time, but change IS happening. 🐻👏 All of our cubs are doing well. Curator Tori will hold Facebook Live tomorrow, Thursday, November 21st at 12:30PM eastern. ... See MoreSee Less
I love that more awareness is being made on this issue. I don’t live in bear country. It breaks my heart for the bears. I do think that more expensive fines may be the key. Especially for those who are intentionally feeding the bears, which I have seen on social media. Which is so sad. One persons page was very clear, she knew she was doing wrong. She had the ability to communicate turned off. (I didn’t bother reporting her, only because I have reported people in the past for other issues, little to nothing was done.)
Ever since finding ABR many years ago. I went from someone who was very fearful of bears (which is a really long story- not for today.) Someone with a deep respect and love for bears, especially black bears. He. I can I share a try to spread awareness in hopes of helping.
Thank you ABR for all you are currently doing and have done and will continue to do for the bears.
We’re also seeing more bears in non bear areas due to loss of habitat
Stop building
ALRIGHTY! Raise the fines, kick them out of the hotels and STRs, keep a record of the tourons to pass around, do it all! The people who live in the areas love the bears, respect the bears. OK, I'm going to try to calm down. Thank you for posting this.
All the outdoor cubs enjoyed a much needed shower today. Everyone was high in the treetops this morning and this afternoon, they've been through the drip-dry cycle. It's continued to rain throughout the day, so the bears have made themselves a bit scarce for the cameras.
Our newest arrival, Crockett Bear is settling in well. Curators have noticed a few interesting tidbits about Crockett. First, he's eliminated several roundworms. The worm meds are accomplishing their mission! Second, Crockett is mostly a nocturnal creature. He sleeps all day and has become much more active at night. Gradually, he's eating well. We're sure that he feels a whole lot better without the nasty parasites.
Scruffy and Rags continue to improve. The Curators have commented that Rags is a "new bear" now that he's ventured outdoors. Rags is smaller than his brother, but now, he tends to insist on getting his way with food bowls and such. Little Rags Bear has learned that Scruffy always heads straight for the peanut butter. While Scruff licks the peanut butter, Rags heads to the bowl to get first choice of his favorites. Smart little Rags!
ABR has been asked to be the Grand Marshal of the Townsend Christmas Parade this year. We hope you will come out to see the festivities on the afternoon of December 1st.
If the ABR 2025 Cubby Calendar, the ABR Logo Ornament or the 2024 Tim Weberding "For The Bears" ornament are on your holiday wish list, be sure to snag them from the store very soon! Supplies are limited. For anyone who missed the Jillie Eves Cubby Holiday Cards, we've added a small number of them back to the online and physical stores. They won't last long!
Got an unexpected package from ABR today, my husband surprised me with some items for my birthday, included was the ABR calendar, which is beautiful as always.
Such big healthy looking bears. I had to chuckle when reading about Rags pulling one over on Scruffy by letting Scruffy lick the peanut butter while Rags goes straight to the bowl to eat. Smart little bear. I am sure Crockett will continue to improve the more of those parasites he gets rid of. I think it is awesome that ABR has been asked to be the Grand Marshall of the Townsend Christmas Parade. Well deserved honor! 🙏🏻🐻♥️x29 plus curators
I wonder if crockett’s mom left him on the tree for the day while she goes off to sleep then they move around at night? 3x in a row.
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ABR Daily Update-November 25, 2024-Plotting Cubs🐻
Weather: 71C (22C) Humidity 60%, Cloudy ☁️
Crockett finished taking the antibiotics prescribed following the extraction of one of his baby incisors. He's free to meet the rowdies next door should the curators determine he can handle them. He's still a timid fellow, more in tune with Rags than with Scruffy, but it's a two-for-one deal, so if he meets Rags, he'll meet Scruffy too.🐻🐻🐻
The cubs in the Wild Enclosure #2 decided it was a good idea to leave their platforms, climb a tree, and spy on the cubs in Wild Enclosure #1. They've been up there for hours, and we'd love to know what they're thinking. We hope it doesn't involve plotting to unite with the other bears and stage an overthrow of ABR. We don't approve of revolutionary cubs. Never have, never will.🚫
The "outside" cubs are offered gallons of peanuts and apples, and they do their best to eat everything. Eating is their main occupation of late, and that will continue until they return to the wild in a few weeks. The fat they're storing now will help them survive winter and hibernation after their release.
Two of the "indoor" cubbies get peanuts, shelled walnuts, apples, and acorns. Rags and Scruffy decided they like apples, even when they're not chopped. Crockett gets a bowl of bear milk replacement formula and more shelled walnuts in lieu of peanuts. At this stage of his recovery, we want him to eat as much as he can with as little effort as possible, and shelling peanuts is tiresome, even for humans. Scruffy and Rags are really interested in Crockett. Well, Scruffy more than Rags, but both siblings went to the gate to check out the new kid. Crockett is curious too, but he's easily startled, sometimes by the equally startled Rags.🐻🐻
❤️Please consider donating to Appalachian Bear Rescue’s Room in Your Heart Campaign.
appalachianbearrescue.org/room-in-your-heart-campaign/
🎉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”.
*We post one update daily, seven days a week. ... See MoreSee Less
6 CommentsComment on Facebook
!? Bears shell peanuts? I’m honestly shocked at this - my father and son eat them whole!
Looks like a wonderful day at Bear camp!!! Hugs to all!!!❤️
A newsworthy day! No more antibiotics AND some someones now like fruit (a fruit). ABR could have raised some money on when that would happen. <3
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ABR Daily Update-November 24, 2024-Mischief in the Mist.🌫️🐻
Weather: 62F (17C) Humidity 36%, Sunny 🌞
It was foggy this morning, and our cubs played at “Gorillas in the Mist,” though “Monkeys in the Fog” would have been more appropriate. It seems our 26 “outside” bears are curious, chonky, and completely illiterate. In yesterday’s post, we stated that “they [the cubs] are becoming a bit lazier these days.” However, the little bears in WE#1 didn’t get the memo; they staged another meeting of Cubby Fight Club! Heads were bopped, and ears were rearranged. Oddly, one miscreant took a break from the action to roll up what’s left of the sod we put down!🐻🤔
Cubs are good at rolling up sod, but not at laying it. They’re excellent at wrecking plumbing, but not at installing it. Little bears are superb at murdalizing saplings, but not at planting them. This makes it hard for them to find employment outside the forest, which is a good thing; the forest is their home, and our curious, chonky, illiterate delinquents will be returning to it in a few weeks.
We don’t think the three “inside” cubs can read either, but Rags and Scruffy are putting on weight, and so is their neighbor, Crockett. The curators are happy with their progress and thank you for your support.❤️🐻🐻🐻
In case you missed our earlier post, we’re very happy to announce that BOTH Appalachian Wildlife Refuge and Linville-Central Rescue Squad won top prizes from the Defender Service Awards! Both groups won $25,000 each and Land Rover Defenders. Thank you for your daily votes! They put these two worthy organizations over the top! 👏👏👏
❤️Please consider donating to Appalachian Bear Rescue’s Room in Your Heart Campaign.
appalachianbearrescue.org/room-in-your-heart-campaign/
🎉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”.
*We post one update daily, seven days a week. ... See MoreSee Less
38 CommentsComment on Facebook
So happy to hear that Appalachian Wildlife Refuge and Linville-Central Rescue Squad won the Defender Service Awards. Both are very deserving. Glad all our cub kids are doing well.♥️🐻🐾
Glad that all of our cubbies are doing well, although sadly their enclosures are not fairing so well. Also very glad that the three HH babies are doing so well and that Crockett might get to meet his neighbors soon. Congratulations again to both Appalachian Wildlife Refuge and Linville-Central Rescue Squad for winning top prizes in the Defender Service Awards! 🙏🏻🐻♥️x29 plus curators
That's awesome to hear about those organizations! You really helped them by telling us about them...I voted every day because of y'all. Thank you for your work for the bears and for a better world.
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November 24, 2024
We are thrilled to announce that BOTH Appalachian Wildlife Refuge and Linville-Central Rescue Squad won top prizes from the Defender Service Awards! Both groups won $25,000 each and Land Rover Defenders. Thank you for your daily votes! They put these two worthy organizations over the top! 👏👏👏
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I’m so ecstatic for both agencies! Since I don’t have money for donating, being able to vote for worthy agencies to win big warms my heart that I could help them!
Thank you so much Appalachian Bear Rescue and all your supporters. You made this happen! It takes a village and your village really came through for us. ❤️Appalachian Wildlife Refuge
So happy for both. I voted for both almost everyday.Thsnks for letting us know to vote.
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November 24, 2024: Looking for a gift idea?
You asked and we finally delivered! Wear your ABR support with this ABR logo full-zip hoodie.
Hoodie sweatshirt is Next Level brand in the Midnight Navy color.
These sweatshirts run smaller than the Comfort Colors tees that we sell in our store. They have a more athletic fit. You might consider ordering one size larger if you want a roomier fit.
Get them before they are gone.
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14 CommentsComment on Facebook
Yay! I'm pretty sure my friends think ABR is a clothing brand, I wear so much of it!
Thank you for your shout out to Appalachian Wildlife Refuge and Linville-Central Rescue Squad, because of you, I voted!!! So happy they both were winners!!!
I would need to physically try on. I forgot - what are the hours?
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ABR Daily Update-November 23, 2024-From Malnourished to Curious 🐻
Weather: 53F (12C) Humidity 55%, Partly cloudy 🌤️
The curators are encouraged by Crockett’s progress; he is eating well and is more alert than he was a few days ago. We never know how things will turn out for cubs who come to us in such malnourished condition, so we’re pleased that this little guy is responding positively to good food. He shows interest in his neighbors, and at least one of them, Scruffy, seems to reciprocate. They can smell each other through the closed gate and even try to open it. Crockett must finish his antibiotics before the curators can consider introducing him to Rags and Scruffy.
The cubs in Enclosure #3 were back in the “moonscape,” digging. They are becoming a bit lazier these days, but their appetite remains strong. Thank you for helping us fill their seemingly bottomless tummies!🐻❤️
🗓️Our 2025 calendars are available for purchase at our online store along with other items unique to ABR. We’ sorry, but orders are restricted to the USA only. Please click on the link below.
appalachian-bear-rescue.myshopify.com/
❤️Please consider donating to Appalachian Bear Rescue’s Room in Your Heart Campaign.
appalachianbearrescue.org/room-in-your-heart-campaign/
🎉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”.
*We post one update daily, seven days a week. ... See MoreSee Less
21 CommentsComment on Facebook
Thank you for the positive update on sweet little Crockett. I don’t blame him for wanting privacy to sleep. I assume that makes him feel safer. I hope he gets to join Rags and Scruffy soon so that Rags can have someone closer to his size to pal around with. I still hope the cubs in WE3 manage to strike oil before they leave. Wouldn’t that be nice! 🙏🏻🐻♥️x29 plus curators
Keep up the good work Crockett! So glad all the other “babies” are doing well! Thank y’all for the update and all your dedication to our precious bears 🐻💕
I am so happy they are doing well - especially Rags and Crockett!!! ❤️🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸💕
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ABR Daily Update-November 22, 2024-Happy Cubby Birthday! 🎂🐻
Weather:43F (6C) Humidity 57%, Cloudy ☁️
Our twenty-nine resident bear cubs are now ten months old! ABR chose January 22 as our bears’ “official” birthday, as it falls roughly midway in the range of possible birthdates (early January to early February). Life hasn’t been kind to our cubs, but thanks to your compassion, they are celebrating another birthday. 🎉🐻❤️
Crockett is enjoying shelled walnuts, chopped apples, and peanut butter, and is still taking his antibiotic (mixed in honey) to help ward off infection at the site of his extracted baby tooth. He’s sleeping and eating well, and his plumbing is top-notch. He needs to rest and eat, and thanks to you, we can provide him with a safe place and food to do both. 🐻
Rags and his brother Scruffy are tolerating life in Hartley House. They’re eating well and playing; Rags is holding his own with his much larger big brother who is a very frisky cub. Very frisky! 🐻🐻
Over the last few days, our curators took photos of the cubs the old fashioned way: with a camera and a lot of patience. We hope you enjoy them and we thank you for helping us help the little bears. Happy birthday to all bears, past and present! As always, we remember those who didn’t get to see this birthday. Their memory remains alive in all who knew them. 🐻❤️🎂
🗓️Our 2025 calendars are available for purchase at our online store along with other items unique to ABR. We’ sorry, but orders are restricted to the USA only. Please click on the link below.
appalachian-bear-rescue.myshopify.com/
❤️Please consider donating to Appalachian Bear Rescue’s Room in Your Heart Campaign.
appalachianbearrescue.org/room-in-your-heart-campaign/
🎉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”.
*We post one update daily, seven days a week. ... See MoreSee Less
130 CommentsComment on Facebook
So many bears..so adorable
Such beautiful bears, and to think how tiny and frail they were! ABR you do wonders for these precious little cubs! Thank you! May they all live long lives.
Question on ear tags: Do they have a number on them too? I mean, there's only so many combinations of color pairs compared to how many bears are tagged...
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38 CommentsComment on Facebook
Is this instead of Weds or Friday or both?
I love the updates!❤️
Thanks Tori and have a great weekend!
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ABR BearWise Update - November 20th 2024
For today’s post, we urge you to watch the below video from WVLT News. ABR’s Operations Director, Greg Grieco, has spent the last couple of months working with reporters to craft a complete picture of the challenges black bears are facing in eastern Tennessee. This is great progress for our community, for bear cubs, and for BearWise efforts.
THANK YOU to WVLT for working with ABR to highlight this important issue and THANK YOU to all of YOU!! This is no doubt a result of your endless support and efforts to help us spread BearWise messaging. Change takes time, but change IS happening. 🐻👏 All of our cubs are doing well. Curator Tori will hold Facebook Live tomorrow, Thursday, November 21st at 12:30PM eastern. ... See MoreSee Less
70 CommentsComment on Facebook
I love that more awareness is being made on this issue. I don’t live in bear country. It breaks my heart for the bears. I do think that more expensive fines may be the key. Especially for those who are intentionally feeding the bears, which I have seen on social media. Which is so sad. One persons page was very clear, she knew she was doing wrong. She had the ability to communicate turned off. (I didn’t bother reporting her, only because I have reported people in the past for other issues, little to nothing was done.) Ever since finding ABR many years ago. I went from someone who was very fearful of bears (which is a really long story- not for today.) Someone with a deep respect and love for bears, especially black bears. He. I can I share a try to spread awareness in hopes of helping. Thank you ABR for all you are currently doing and have done and will continue to do for the bears.
We’re also seeing more bears in non bear areas due to loss of habitat Stop building
ALRIGHTY! Raise the fines, kick them out of the hotels and STRs, keep a record of the tourons to pass around, do it all! The people who live in the areas love the bears, respect the bears. OK, I'm going to try to calm down. Thank you for posting this.
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November 19, 2024: Rain Bath
All the outdoor cubs enjoyed a much needed shower today. Everyone was high in the treetops this morning and this afternoon, they've been through the drip-dry cycle. It's continued to rain throughout the day, so the bears have made themselves a bit scarce for the cameras.
Our newest arrival, Crockett Bear is settling in well. Curators have noticed a few interesting tidbits about Crockett. First, he's eliminated several roundworms. The worm meds are accomplishing their mission! Second, Crockett is mostly a nocturnal creature. He sleeps all day and has become much more active at night. Gradually, he's eating well. We're sure that he feels a whole lot better without the nasty parasites.
Scruffy and Rags continue to improve. The Curators have commented that Rags is a "new bear" now that he's ventured outdoors. Rags is smaller than his brother, but now, he tends to insist on getting his way with food bowls and such. Little Rags Bear has learned that Scruffy always heads straight for the peanut butter. While Scruff licks the peanut butter, Rags heads to the bowl to get first choice of his favorites. Smart little Rags!
ABR has been asked to be the Grand Marshal of the Townsend Christmas Parade this year. We hope you will come out to see the festivities on the afternoon of December 1st.
If the ABR 2025 Cubby Calendar, the ABR Logo Ornament or the 2024 Tim Weberding "For The Bears" ornament are on your holiday wish list, be sure to snag them from the store very soon! Supplies are limited. For anyone who missed the Jillie Eves Cubby Holiday Cards, we've added a small number of them back to the online and physical stores. They won't last long!
Link to the Cubby Calendar:
appalachian-bear-rescue.myshopify.com/products/2025-abr-cubby-calendar
Link to the Logo Ornament:
appalachian-bear-rescue.myshopify.com/products/2024-abr-logo-metal-ornament
Link to the For The Bears Ornament:
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Link to the Jillie Eves Cubby Holiday Cards:
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Thank you for keeping all 29 of our cubs in your heart. You give them a second chance at life in the wild. You provide the "Bear Necessities".
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Got an unexpected package from ABR today, my husband surprised me with some items for my birthday, included was the ABR calendar, which is beautiful as always.
Such big healthy looking bears. I had to chuckle when reading about Rags pulling one over on Scruffy by letting Scruffy lick the peanut butter while Rags goes straight to the bowl to eat. Smart little bear. I am sure Crockett will continue to improve the more of those parasites he gets rid of. I think it is awesome that ABR has been asked to be the Grand Marshall of the Townsend Christmas Parade. Well deserved honor! 🙏🏻🐻♥️x29 plus curators
I wonder if crockett’s mom left him on the tree for the day while she goes off to sleep then they move around at night? 3x in a row.
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