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Bulgaria's Last 3 Dancing Bears Freed
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I like so much to hear this great news and many many thanks to Four Paws Foundation! This cruel tradition has to be stopped in the whole world! The bears are just helpless and only moving under big pain caused by the ring in the nose which causes them also very ugly infections - just horrible! So thumbs up for Bulgaria! I'm very happy about it!
Posted by: The Don | June 18, 2007 01:23 PM
Thank you Four Paws Foundation! Just looking at that picture makes my nose hurt, so I can't imagine what these poor innocent bears have gone through! What the hell is wrong with people? Why is this considered entertainment for some people? I just don't understand. If this is still going on in India and Pakistan, I hope PETA is on the case! This has got to stop!
Posted by: Veronica | June 18, 2007 01:30 PM
PETA is working to make sure the laws against capturing "Dancing Bears" are enforced in Pakistan and India you can help too by going to: http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/dancing_bears
Posted by: Fritz | June 18, 2007 01:57 PM
yeh!!! i am so excited for there new lives to begin away from the human torture!!Major thanks to the Four Paws Foundation!!! i hope they are running and playing freely and living much better lives!!!!
Posted by: kris shulfer | June 18, 2007 06:46 PM
This is great news!! I really hope the other countries that do this sick torture also stop this practice. Tradition does not justify torture!!!!
Posted by: Kathleen W. | June 19, 2007 06:27 PM
Two thumbs WAY up to Four paws foundation !! For stoping "Bear Dancing"in Bulgaria and if you ask me that's not dancing that's plain torture !
Posted by: Cody | June 19, 2007 06:38 PM
anything happening for the bears used for bile production, these bears up to 20 years in asia with a tube in their bile duct and lying with no movement in tiny cages.
Posted by: helena | June 19, 2007 07:29 PM
I really hope these are really THE LAST of the dancing bears..... I am bulgarian and I was schocked remembering these bears..... :(((( hope its over now...
Posted by: Pirina | November 29, 2007 09:06 AM
This is really great news. I am 42 yo Bulgarian living abroad and I remember this bears. Warning now!!! I do not point fingers and I do not defend any nation - just try to explain the tradition:
And first I will say that, the "dancing bears" show existed in Bulgaria only because it found enough cheering and cruel public among the Bulgarians themselves. Here is my theory - maybe the connection to India and Pakistan explains why I remember only Roma people being the masters of the bears. As you know Roma were Indian nation before they arrived to Europe. So maybe this is really ancient tradition. This was business for the Roma - the same like shining and polishing of metal pots or production of wooden instruments or traveling musicians. To the bears again - I remember myself feeling lost in such cheering crowd and asking myself what is wrong with me - am I the only one who looks the poor animal in the eyes and feel sick? But now it is over. Thankfully.
Posted by: Stefan | October 15, 2008 10:27 AM
I'm from Bulgaria too. i have seen dancing bears once, it was sickening. I have read that the Roma people (all around Europe) used these bears not only to make a show but to make people believe they had special powers and were in control of black magic. So they were left alone. I have no idea why we couldn't stop that earlier.
Posted by: Atanas | January 21, 2009 01:55 AM