Last thursday he weighed in at 28lbs. so I'm sure he is well over 30lbs. by now.... sooo big!
We moved him into the big bear enclosure on Monday where he'll be living in a large hut so he can see all the other bears but be safe from them until he's bigger. Unfortunately he had to learn about hot wire..... sooo sad!
It's for his own good, something he had to learn but so hard to watch because he's now like our own little baby. Anyways, so there are 3 lines of hotwire inside of the hut: a top wire, middle wire, and bottom wire. This is important because black bears climb very well and we don't want him climbing the fence once he's out in the roof-less enclosure. So this hotwire conditioning is very important.
He's a smart boy, he figured it out right away. He got zapped really good only once when he first tried to climb the fence... after that he just got his ears zapped a couple times cuz the bottom wire is just high enough that he can walk under it but if he raises his head just a little bit his ears touch the wire.
Poor baby bear. He a tough little nook though and smart as heck!
Tonight we have a benefit dinner in the black bear area where we will be announcing his official name!!! I soooo hope it's Douglas!
We have been having a naming contest for the last couple of weeks. The four of us keepers came up with three possible names for him that we liked then we opened it up to the public to vote on. The options we came up with are:
Douglas - for the fir tree and the county we live in.
Takoda - native american for "a friend to all"
Yuma - native american for "son of a ..... chief" ;-)
Douglas was the name I came up with and we have all been calling him that already so I hope it's the one that got the most votes.
Anyways, I will let you know what name he ends up with... I'll find out in a couple of hours.... eeeeeee! (squeal of excitement).
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