Little Bit’s Release – Part 2 – The Workup
The workup process is somewhat involved, because the wildlife officers (in this case, NPS officers from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park) want to be absolutely sure that the bear (in…
Little Bit’s Release – Part 1 – Preparation for Workup
As promised, here is the first of our posts on the release of Little Bit Bear, which took place on June 28th, six weeks after she arrived, tiny and injured. …
Little Bit’s Final Portraits at ABR
As we showed you in our last post, Little Bit has healed well and looks really good. Her release date was set for June 28th, and we will show you…
Doesn’t Little Bit Look Great?
Little Bit was admitted to ABR by wildlife officers from The Great Smoky Mountains National Park on May 17 with a serious wound on her snout. You can read about her…
Loretta’s story continues (Release Part IV)
Bump, bump, bumpity bump…it was a rough ride deep into the National Park. It was hot, and between bumps Rose and I were trying our best to wake up. [Yawn!]…
Loretta’s story continues (Release Part III)
It was a very hot day so, after they put me through all the ‘hoops’ and turned to do the same for Rose, I was “put on ice” for the…
Loretta’s story continues (Release Part II)
Now some of this is going to be downright embarrassing. They unceremoniously lifted me up to be weighed and poked and prodded from stem to stern — why, they even gave me a dental exam! But taking my temperature, well, that had to be the absolute worst. Find out more…in Part II of the release process
This is how it all went down, Loretta says…(Release Part I)
This is how it all went down, Loretta says…in her own words…she will take you through the release
process from beginning to end so that you can see what a big job it is to prepare ‘Chubby Cubbies’ for release back to the wild! So stay tuned…This is Part I.
The ‘Sisters’ – cubs Rose and Loretta were released to the wild!
The ‘Sisters’ – cubs Rose and Loretta were released back to the wild on Friday afternoon. Three photos…more to come!
Little Bit Looks Good!
If you remember what Little Bit looked like when she arrived at ABR on May 17th, you will be amazed at her appearance today. The scab has completely disappeared from…