In general, you are right. Bears are dangerous animals, and they are unlikely to ever become pets, although, in my opinion, fighting dogs are no less dangerous. In any case, I would not like my neighbors to keep at least a tame bear on the site. Who knows, in nature, a bear can devour someone else's bear cub.
It is impossible to tame a wild bear, and it is impossible to return a bear that grew up in captivity to nature. There is an anecdote about how a decommissioned circus bear was released into the forest for government hunting. He didn't know what to do, he took away a bicycle from some random woman (something familiar). But when a bear on a bicycle rode out of the woods at Eric Honecker, he did not shoot.
But bears are intelligent, and they can ride a bike and motorcycle, but dogs can't. And they have personality, so specialists are able to select specimens that can be relatively socialized. Therefore, the image of the bear in our culture is in a special position. Now Stepan is the most popular, often appearing in advertisements,
but he is not the only one.
Жительница Новосибирска Вероника Дичка с гордостью может сказать, что медведь Арчи - ее верный спутник. Арчи, который тоже из Новосибирска, сначала был спасен из цирка в детстве. Он жил в
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In the story that I remembered after the cartoon, there was just a combination of coincidences. In the middle of the week, there were simply no outsiders there, and the director was not notified of the arrival of the guest: there was no phone at the base at that time. So the meeting was a surprise not only for the artist, but also for the bear, but all the participants came out of the situation with dignity.
I had a dream - hunting a bear, but now I realize that I can't do it, and conservationists have greatly complicated the situation.