APPALACHIAN BEAR RESCUE THANKS OUR DONORS!
Aslan Foundation
Trushel Living Trust
and
Many Generous Individual Donors
Without your support, we could not offer world-class medical care to all ABR bears.
Your support proved especially critical in 2023, helping us save lives and give bears a second chance.
Appalachian Bear Rescue
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Our newest intake, SuBearu Bear, is out of surgery! She did great! 👏😄 ... See MoreSee Less
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Happy Friday everyone!
Thanks Tori! Have a fabulous weekend!
Love and prayers
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Please join us for a Facebook Live update at 1:00PM eastern. We will have updates on SuBearu's surgery then. Thank you for your patience. 😊🐻 ... See MoreSee Less
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Thanks soo much ABR for sharing!😃🐻🐾💞💛💚💜💛🩵
Don't see any video! Praying for Subearu
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May 16, 2024: ABR Newsflash - ABR 401 Arrives
This morning, Operations Director Greg Grieco was on his way to Gatlinburg to pick up some new handmade pottery items for our store. Just as he was pulling into Gatlinburg, ABR's phone rang. A mail carrier from the Post Office in Gatlinburg reported that she saw a small cub of the year alone and crying this morning. The carrier sees bears often, and felt that something about this bear was different. She saw the cub trying to climb a tree, but it was struggling.
Greg spoke with the postal carrier and diverted to the cub's location. When he arrived, the cub was still there. Greg immediately noticed that the little bear appeared to have a broken back leg. The cub managed to climb a tall tree and Greg kept an eye on it and called TWRA Biologist Dan. Dan agreed that Greg should attempt to capture the cub and take it to UTCVM-University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine for examination and care. Fortunately, Ryan Williamson with Great Smoky Mountains National Park was nearby and able to drop off a trap, leather gloves and a catch pole for Greg. Curator Jamie headed to Gatlinburg with fruit for trap bait, an extension ladder, and all the supplies to take a cub to UTCVM.
Just before Curator Jamie arrived on the scene, Greg was able to scruff the cub and place it in the trap for transport. Greg was travelling in his personal Subaru this morning, and placed the trapped cub in his vehicle. Jamie and Greg drove separately, and took the cub to UTCVM where they met Dr. Cushing, Dr. Swanepoel, and their team. The doctors immediately knew the cub had a broken left femur, so they took the bear straight to radiology to confirm. It's a clean break in the middle of the bone, and surgery is scheduled for tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m.
The cub is female and weighs 4.5 kg (9.9 pounds). Other than the broken leg, she was covered in green fuzzy burrs, The doctors used a comb to remove the burrs and gave fluids to hydrate the little bear. She's back at ABR now where she will stay in the HRH for tonight. She has pain meds, antibiotics, and anti-inflammatories onboard to get her through the night. She's already lapped up a bowl of Cubby Sauce and honey.
Please welcome ABR 401 SuBearu!
All the other cubs at ABR are fine. We will post about them tomorrow.
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So glad this precious baby was helped!! Prayers for a full recovery!
Subaru of America, Inc. perhaps a little support for baby Subearu? ♥️
Thank goodness for that Postal worker and being able to recognize something wasn't right with that poor baby. Now she will get the care she needs and have the best chance of survival. And as for the name, how appropriate. I love it.
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Sorry for the technology error. We are back and still talking BearWise!! 🐻 ... See MoreSee Less
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Great broadcasts. Learned so much. This is a must watch for anyone who lives in bear country or plans to visit.
Thanks Curator Tori and Greg for coming back and Sharing Bear Wise,some very important information about what you should do when you come into the Park, to be aware that the park is in Bear Country. To always be respectful of Bears, other Wildlife. This is their Home! People must not bother or harass any Wildlife. To Never feed any Wildlife, we as humans need to respect all Wildlife, it's their territory. To not entice or attract Bears by leaving out any garbage, or anything that would attract Bears, other Wildlife. 😊🐻🐻🐻🐻🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲💞💛🩵💛💚💙
So sorry I missed today. Hope to catch these in future. I've recently been wanting to get word out. As my daughter told me, it's difficult to change adult attitudes; you need to reach the kids, and let them educate their parents. I'd love to get the school system (Polk Co., TN) to add BearWise to their curriculum. But have no idea how to begin. I'm not the outgoing, activist type. But living in bear country, kids need to be taught this early on. It's obvious many adults here were not.
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Join Tori and Greg to talk about the 1st BearWise Basic - Never feed or approach bears 🐻 ... See MoreSee Less
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That’s crazy. They are bothered every day.
So your not going to do the bear updates on Wed, just the Bear Wise?
Thanks Greg ! And Tori! And ABR! Great job yall!! I’m spreading the word!! Thanks also to bearwise.org!!
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May 14, 2024: Busy Days
The ABR staff and our cubs are always busy. There's "stuff" to do every day...rain or shine, hot or cold. We sincerely appreciate your support for our work. You give our bears a second chance at life in the wild.
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Awww Peeps, Casper, Shadow bears, your definitely busy wrestling, chasing,running all over,climbing, batting each other, snoozing together. Soo happy to see you're all doing well. 😃🐻🐻🐻🏡💞💛💚💛🩵
Thank you for reminding people to be BearAware. Several of your cubs would not have come to you last year, if people had thought to secure chicken coops and garbage. It's time for people to stop fighting wildlife and start using our big brains to learn to live with animals.
Thanks soo much Curator Jaime, Curator Haley, Dana for working outside trimming hedges, bringing some honeysuckle to ABR. Looks beautiful. Good Job Everyone. 😃👏👏👏💞💛🩵
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ABR Daily Update-May 13, 2024-What’s for lunch? 🥗🐻
Weather: 68F (20C) Humidity 59%, Mostly cloudy 🌥️
Our seven three-month-old cubs are slowly transitioning to solid food. They're still offered ultra-delicious Cubby Porridge, but they also have berries, carrots, lettuce, apple slices, Mazuri Bear Diet Pellets (crushed), and puppy chow, either in bowls or scattered throughout their rooms, for added crunch and yumminess. It’s interesting that all the cubs initially passed over their porridge in favor of berries first, but who can resist sweet, sweet berries?🫐
Tots Bear is on antibiotics; she gets yogurt and Cubby Sauce as additional nutrition to help the medicine go down. Bear cubs are little troopers; they adjust to their circumstances and roll with the punches. Tots has adjusted and rolled for most of her short life and is the model cubby patient. This might change in a flash, but we hope she’ll continue to be content with her own company for a couple more weeks.🐻🤞
Thank you for helping us help them.❤️
❤️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 was in the area Saturday and stopped in ABR Store and I bought a cap, Tots t-shirt and a window decal. I could have stayed in all afternoon and bought everything. I’ll definitely be back!
What are the days/hours for the Visitor Center?
Appalachian Bear Rescue how will the cicadas affect the bears that are outside?
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Have you joined the Bear Force?! Today is your LAST day to register for our 2024 Bear Force Walk on June 1st. Participate with ABR staff at our Visitor and Education Center or from wherever you are. Race packages include a t-shirt and our brand new sticker that features cubby paw prints from every 2024 cub thus far! 🐻🏃🏻♀️➡️👟 appalachian-bear-rescue.myshopify.com/products/2024-bearly-5k-participant-sign-up ... See MoreSee Less
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I remembered to order mine just the other day. Wish I lived closer to volunteer to help ABR at things like this.
I’ve signed up!
I have mine and love it!
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ABR Daily Update-May 12, 2024-Peeps and Co. Move 🐻🐻🐻
Weather: 74F (23C) Humidity 33%, Sunny 🌞
Considering their size, little bear cubs take up a lot of room. We believe there is a highly mathematical formula that solves for it, but we can’t remember what it is... E=MC something or other. Anyway, Peeps, Casper, and Shadow used up all the space in The Recovery Center and needed more. The curators decided to move them to The Cub House, where the bears will have two rooms and a large Acclimation Pen overlooking Wild Enclosure #4.
The cubs didn’t like being moved, cared little for the people moving them, or for the house they moved into. They were scared at first and scampered up to the resting platform where they spent most of yesterday afternoon napping or trying to find a way out through the roof. Eventually, curiosity and rumbly tummies conquered their fear, and the cubs descended to explore. They’re not used to their new climbing logs, so their descent was not graceful, but gravity helped them along and padded cubby bums made the dismount tolerable. Today, Peeps, Casper, and Shadow seem to like their new pad. In fact, they are busy tearing it to pieces. Good cubbies!
Meanwhile, in Hartley House, Tots is having a good time with her blue ball. The curators are happy to see her so active, taking her meds without complaint, and eating everything that’s offered. Good cub!
Daisy Mae, Duke, and Jellybean are napping outside the gate that leads to Tots’ room. They know she’s in there and maybe they’re hoping she’ll ask them to visit. They are, of course, too loutish and rough to be introduced, but a bear’s sense of smell is so acute, they likely exchanged calling cards the moment she arrived. The amount of information a bear’s nose can process is staggering. Smart cubbies! 🐻🐻🐻 🐻
We wish everyone a Happy Mother’s Day. Our bears are grateful to all of you for helping them when their own mothers couldn’t. ❤️🌹
❤️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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How do you move the cubs to a new “home”? It doesn’t look like you sedate them.
A Beary Happy Mother’s Day to all of the ABR “mothers” who protect, care for and love all of “our” cubbies. . . past, present and future. We ❤️ and appreciate you!
Wonderful update. I am so glad everyone is doing great. ❤🐻❤
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