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Bob Barker Showcases Cruelty to Bears in Meeting With Cherokees
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Yesterday, Bob met with Principal Chief Michell Hicks and members of the Tribal Council for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to plead for compassion for captive bears in Cherokee, North Carolina, who languish in desolate concrete pits and cages in roadside zoos. After Bob saw firsthand the deplorable conditions at one of these tourist traps (he was denied entry to the other two), he urged Principal Chief Hicks to release the miserable bears to a sanctuary in California.
Although no promises were made at yesterday's meeting, PETA won't rest until the black bears are retired to sanctuaries. After all, according to Cherokee legend, black bears are the keepers of dreams. No doubt all of these imprisoned bears are dreaming of their own freedom.
Posted by Karin Bennett
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What kind of loser stops at a roadside zoo anyway?
Posted by: Kelley | July 29, 2009 06:07 PM
Bob Barker has been a very generous, compassionate and proactive animal loving vegetarian for over thirty years. He's the real deal !!
Posted by: Brien Comerford | July 29, 2009 07:44 PM
BOB YOU ROCK!!!
Posted by: susan trecarichi | July 29, 2009 09:26 PM
Hooray!! for Bob Barker!! We all remember his words at the end of every PRICE IS RIGHT show...."Remember to have your pet spayed,or neutered". Bob has always been a voice for animals, a truly compassionate, wonderful man!!!
Posted by: Adele | July 29, 2009 09:53 PM
Do you suppose we could get Mr. Barker to go to the White Tiger truck stop in Baton Rouge, La, and expose the conditions of the White Tigers who are imprisoned there?
Posted by: Rev. Meg Schramm | July 30, 2009 12:58 PM
Asking for a boycott of Western North Carolina isn't really the best way to stop this. You will just make a lot a people upset with both Bob and PETA. Why couldn't a meeting be held before things got so ugly. All they had to do was make a call to the Chief's office and explain the situation. Instead Cherokee was blasted time and time again in letters and news releases. I understand they just want to improve the lives of these captive bears but there are more professional methods of accomplishing this.
Posted by: Cherokee | July 30, 2009 03:18 PM
Thanks BOB and PETA its people like you who make a difference.. keep your voice.. who is there voice alive
Posted by: Elizabeth | July 30, 2009 03:20 PM
I live here in the beatiful mountains of Western North Carolina and I have to say that I am horrified by this story of the captive bears. Thank you Bob Barker for bringing this to everyone's attention. Let's hope this nighmare will end soon for these "keepers of dreams".
Posted by: Jan Clawson | July 30, 2009 03:23 PM
Bless you, Bob!
Posted by: NT | July 31, 2009 08:53 AM
LOVE YOU BOB AND YOUR COMMITMENT TO ALL ANIMALS. THANKS!
Posted by: dee | July 31, 2009 09:53 AM
In reply to Meg-a meeting was held with Bob, the Chief and the Tribal Council. Bob's news conference was held Wednesday morning. On Tuesday morning Bob was to visit the zoos-only one would let him in-the others refused. The Tribal Council refused to compromise in anyway thus forcing the boycott issue. The area as Bob indicated as other attractions, crafts and Indian heritage to offer-the bears aren't needed unless as suggested-the area opens up a preserve to allow the bears to roam.
Posted by: Tom | July 31, 2009 12:28 PM
if the world only had more bob barkers , it would be a better place!!!! thanks bob !!
Posted by: connie | August 6, 2009 06:51 PM
How possible would it be for Mr.Bob Barker --- bless him --- to look into other sites where bears are being held captive in an inhumane way? Water & food and so-called "shelter" just isn't good enough. Bob Barker: won't you please PLEASE continue caring for bears?!! I would be only too happy to divulge some other, sad situations involving bears.
Posted by: Irene H. Arm | August 6, 2009 07:07 PM
This hardly seems like the tradition of respect and the full circle that most tribes claim to represent.
Posted by: Jeffrey Smith | August 6, 2009 07:34 PM
Thank you Bob for helping animals !
Posted by: Amy S | August 6, 2009 08:12 PM
Bob Barker is a voice for the silent victims of cruelty.He has brought the plight of animals to the forefront of America's living rooms for years.I hope he reads some of these encouraging comments and is assured that his efforts are repeated by so many of us throughout the country. We all follow his lead. Don't be embarassed to speak up when you see injustice.Keep Bob's work alive, Protest,it's the American Way!!
Posted by: Sue Henderson | August 6, 2009 08:42 PM
Amen!
Posted by: Maria Gjura-Staka | August 7, 2009 02:43 AM
Bob & PETA thank you for the work you do for the animals. God bless you. we all need to step up & do our part in changing the ignorance that is out there, when it comes to the cruelty toward all animals!
Posted by: Shirley Siravo | August 7, 2009 09:25 PM
Bob..Thank you from all the animals!!!
BE THE CHANGE YOU WISH TO SEE IN THE WORLD!!! You have done this, by protecting our animals;)
Posted by: layla Davis | August 7, 2009 10:36 PM
I wish Bob Barker well in his pursuit of freeing these beautiful animals. It always amazes me when I here stories like this. What causes people to believe treating animals in this manner is ok?? What kind of horrific upbringing, education, parenting, were they exposed to? Amazing! Thanks Bob...
Posted by: Alan Cohen | August 9, 2009 09:26 AM
BOB,I JUST FINISHED WATCHING THE VIDEO ABOUT HOW FUR IS OBTAINED IN CHINA,I HAVE CRIED AND CRIED.WHAT SCARES ME MOSTIS..WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE4 CAN DO THESE THINGS TO ANIMALS?MAYBE YOU MIGHT WANT TO CHECK THE SITE OUT PETA HAS ON THIS..THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS
Posted by: DIANE ARMSTRONG | August 9, 2009 11:18 AM
I wrote a letter to Principal Chief Hicks and received no reply. What is the status of this campaign? I hate the thought of these bears suffering one more day.
Posted by: Mary McArdle | August 12, 2009 05:10 PM
wish bob would stand up for all the human babys being killed every day then we could save the bears !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: dwayne | September 8, 2009 06:09 PM
I have been going to the Great Smoky Mountains, since I was a little child, as my mother was born out there in Swain County. As that child, I saw the bear's, roaming some time's, along the road side, and it was so exciting. NOTHING, is exciting about these bear's in Cherokee and Maggie Valley (SANTA LAND). When these poor creatures cry, I cry for them. You don't see the bear's out along the road side today. They are all in CAGES!! God Bless Bob Barker. I hope that he return's SOON.
Posted by: Irma Cash | September 25, 2009 11:23 AM
Thank you Bob.
Posted by: Fred and Rose | October 15, 2009 07:43 PM
Leonard Peltier, an innocent Lakota man imprisoned mainly in maximum security prisons since 1976, painted "The Spirit of the Bear," which depicted an Indian man sitting at a campfire, unaware of a mountain lion stalking him, but the spirit of a bear hovered above to protect him. Leonard always wanted staff at the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee to take special care of their own dogs even though the support work at the office was important towards winning his freedom from wrongful imprisonment. Let his example of caring for animals encourage the Cherokee owners of roadside zoos to turn their caged animals over to a well-established animal refuge where the zoo animals can be given medical treatment and be rehabilitated to good health.
Posted by: Anne | October 17, 2009 01:37 PM