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A Teary Mother Bear Killed Her Baby and CommittedSuicide – A Heart Breaking True Story

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Traps were laid in

the wild illegally.

When the bear wastrapped, she lost notonly her paws and fourlimbs for a goodfortune of money, butshe was locked up inthe cage and had toendure daily torture ofbile collection up to 25or 30 years. This bilecollection processrequires a hole to becut in the bearstomach and an ironpipe inserted into the bear gall bladder. Bile was then taken several times a day. The entireprocedure was done without anaesthetic in order to save cost. The pain was excruciating. The becould not bear it and attempted to kill herself by punching her stomach. However, human preventethis suicide act by forcing the bear to wear an iron vest. With this iron vest, her movement wasrestricted; committing suicide was an impossible task. A mother bear knew it too well. When the worker wanted to open up her cub’s stomach, the mother bear broke open the cage and went aftthe cub. After failing to release the chained cub, she hugged the cub. The mother bear then killedcub to save it from a life of hell. Here is the story from Chinese news.

A friend asked me for

a favour. He neededmy assistance to manage a bear farm for a few days. The location was remote and unknown bymany.

I reached there at night. It was just before dawn, but I was still not able to sleep. I could hear the wblow, as if someone was weeping with pain and hopelessness. At that very moment, I heard thesound of the door moving and heavy breathing. I sat up, pulled to a stand and turned on the light."Who is it?" There was no answer. The silence was terrifying.

I reached out and grabbed a broom. Gently, I walked to the door and with a quick pull, opened it.

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It’s a bear cub curling up her body looking sheepishly as me. I extended my hands and the cubwaddled towards me. She rested her small palms on my hands. Then she licked my hand with hewarm and soft tongue. It was so heart-warming.

Suddenly, I heard commotion from far. The cub quickly went under my bed.

Then, there was a knock on the door.

I opened the door and asked, “What’s up?”

A man said, “A bear cub just escaped from the bear farm. Has it come to disturb you?”

“Oh, yes, there it is.” I pointed at the cub’s hiding place.

The man squat down and grabbed the cub with one hand. With such roughness, he pulled the beaout and tied her four limbs to a long wooden stick. They lifted the stick and the cub was carried awfrom the room. As she left, she turned and gave me a begging and pitiful look.

Iron Vest

After dawn, the workeron-duty, Zhang tookme to see the bears. Ina few thousand squaremeters wide and tallbuilding, six cageswere placed in anopen space. In everycage, there laid a

black and weary bear.What puzzled me wasthe shining metalaround their bodies.

Zhang told me, “Thisiron vest is used toextract bile from thebear body. Now, theprice of this bile is 300 yuan per gram.” He took me to the first cage, gesturing to me, “Let’s start

bile extraction."

I saw two sturdy workers tied up the bear’s body and pulled, through a pulley, a rope that wasconnected to the iron vest. They shouted, “Hi....!” and I saw the bear’s body contracted as they puSuddenly, the bear gave out a hysterical roar, “Woo....!”. That was not really a roar. It has changeda desolate and sorrowful cry. Her eyes showed endurance of excruciating pain. With restrictedmovement and space, she tried to struggle with her four limbs, kicking the ground with, “Ze la, Zesound, which was such a pain to hear. At that very instant, I could hear the dripping sound of liquidcoming out from a steel pipe under the bear’s stomach.



The workers then slowly released the rope followed by another long hard pull, as they repeated thextraction procedure. Another hoarse cry was heard. I saw the tears drop from the bear’s eyes.Similar to how a human would response to pain; the bear clenched its teeth and bent its body. It wsuch a heart-breaking scene! I could not bear to watch any further. I turned and walked away.

At that moment, I suddenly realised, the moaning cry before dawn came from these tragic bears.

Zhang followed me to the door. With trembling voice, I asked him, “Have you lost your humanity?

These are living things!”

Zhang dismissed it, “Not that we have any choice. This is how we earn a living.”

Calming down, I asked him with a heavy heart, “How often do you need to extract the bile?”

He replied, “That depends. If the bear has good supply of bile, we will do it once or twice a day. Tbear with less bile will be performed once in two days. Generally, a bear can produce 2000g of bannually for 10 years.”

I trembled. Twice a day for 10 years, these are monstrous numbers! The bear has to go through sdeadly torture twice a day, living a life without hope, for 10 years; 7200 times of flesh piercing paenduring it day after day, year after year. Even if this happens to the strongest human, he will not able to sustain it. My heart ached with pain.

I wanted to leave. Zhang said, “In a short while, a surgery will be performed on the cubs. You cannleave at this critical moment. You are representing Mr. Liu. If you leave and something goes wronwho is going to bear the responsibility?”

Reluctantly, I followed him back to the bear room. Under his instruction, four sturdy workers brouga cub and tied i t up with chain. The cub looked at everyone with horror. When she saw me, her ey

brightened up. The cub dropped to her knees and begged me. I felt tears in my eyes.

Zhang waved his hands, instructing the workers to start the surgery.

In great despair, the cub lifted her head and cried, “Wooo....” She burst into tears. It was the mostsorrowful and soul-touching cry I have ever heard in my life. It was as if knowing the human languathe cub shouted out the word, “Mom....”. Even the workers were startled.

At that very moment, an extra-ordinary shocking scene took place. A bear in a cage let out a loudWith her large hands and all her strength, she pushed open the thick iron bar and jumped out of th

cage. The workers were terrified and fled away immediately.

Startled, I didn’t move. It was as i f my legs had grown lead and I was not able to move an inch.However, the bear ignored my presence. She rushed to the cub. With her large hands, in awkwarmovement, she frantically tried to release the cub from the chain. Despite her best effort, she failerelease the cub. So, she kissed the cub and nestled her in her arms with a heavy heart. She lickethe cub’s tears lovingly, crying, “Hmm ..hmmm....” to soothe the cub. The cub cried out, “Hoooo....if calling her mom, asking her for rescue.

Suddenly, the bear let out a loud cry. With her large hands, she strangled the cub’s neck with all hmi ht. She roared as she stran led until the cub’s bod fell to the round. Then, she released her



hands. Looking at her dead child, she whimpered, as if saying, ”My child, I cannot save you, but yare not going to suffer any more. I’m so sorry.”

She bit her own hair. Then, she grabbed the iron vest and pulled it off her body. Together with thevest, the metal pipe flew out of the gallbladder. The fur at her stomach was covered with red blooit dripped out of her stomach. She let out another cry, as if she has gone hysterical, and went towthe wall. “Bang!”. The wall collapsed.

I was in shock. I could not recall how I left this brutal place.

For a whole day, my mind was preoccupied with these tragic scenes. I asked myself, “Was themother bear’s move an act of motherly love? I believe so. It was an act of helpless motherly love. that moment and place, she did not have the ability to help her child to escape from the twenty yeof hellish torture. Under such helpless and desperate situation, she can only destroy the beloved she has created. She then took the same path to follow her child, hoping to accompany her. “

A bear with iron vest

Bear Bile

Farming

Bear bile farming isstill practised in Asiawhere the bears arekept in small cagesand bile is extracted

for traditionalmedicine. There are afew methods used forbile extraction. Themost recent techniqueis called ‘freedripping’. It involvesmaking a permanenthole or fistula into thebears’ abdomen and

gall bladder.

During bile milking, a metal tube will be used to poke through the hole to reach the gall bladder anbreak the membrane, so that the bile is released. This process is often done without anaesthetic sterilization.

The wound from the bile extraction was never closed. So, the wound never recovered. After montand years of this physical torture, many of these bears suffer from infections, diseases, tumour,cancer growth and death from peritonitis (inflammation of the peritoneum, the serous membrane,lines part of the abdominal cavity and viscera).



The bear in the photo above had liver cancer. Prior to rescue, this bear’s paws were chopped offand bile extraction was performed a few times a day on her.

The iron vest worn by the bear was already in bad shape; it showed countless times of bile extrachave been performed on the bear.

Some people think that the bear’s paw is one of the best delicacies in the world, and it tastes thebest when the paw is cut alive. This is truly absurd.

Source: TheScavenger

Jill Robinson

Needs Support

in Bear Rescue

Operations

Mother of the Chinablack bear, AsianAnimal ProtectionAssociation founderJill Robinson, carved

a tattoo of twoChinese character, “” (Moon Bear), onher right shoulder. Foryears, she has been

running around for theblack bear rescueoperations. She wanted to build a larger rescue centre for the bear, but until now, the fund is notready.

The photo above showed Jill with the bear she has just rescued. The bear was wearing the suicidprevention iron-vest.

This bear has been kept in a cage for 22 years. She is not able to turn her body and stand upstraight. All she has is pain. No trees, no sunshine, only darkness! No freedom, no ending, only

torture!

Black bear suffers excruciating pain during bile extraction. To prevent the bile from spillingeverywhere, the bear who wears the iron vest can only stay in a fixed posture in the cage. Only thhead can move freely, the rest of the body are tied up and are unmovable. Every bear that has bethrough bile extraction is as thin as a skeleton. The only movement they can make is to desperateshake their head.

If you want to support Animal Asia in bear rescue operation, click here to read more or donate.



Bears Rescued from Torturous Bile Farm

Traditional

Chinese

Medicine Do Not

Need Bear Bile

Bear bile tasted bitterand is considered coldmedicine. It has beenused in China’spharmacopoeia forthousands of years. Itis used to remove heatfrom the body, to treathigh fever,

liver ailments and soreeyes.

There are manynatural alternatives tobear bi le for thesetreatments that are cruelty free. Bear bile can be replaced easily and cheaply by herbs andsynthetics. No one will die if they do not consume the body fluid of bears. On the contrary, there acases published in Vietnam where people were dying of liver and kidney disease after bear bileconsumption. For some people who took it for increasing sexual strength, theyare now impotent.

In fact, many Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) doctors are furious about bear farming. They cnot accept how the body fluid of mentally and physically degraded animal can be in harmony withnature, the core belief of traditional medicine of health.

The President of the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Lixin Huang, has actualdemanded that the bear farmers stop using traditional medicine as their excuse for farming bearsaying that ‘we don’t need it’.

Jill Robinson ran a “Healing without Harm” campaign and observed thirty Traditional ChineseMedicine shops removing bear bile from their shelves in China. Some of these shop owners eve

burnt it for public demonstration in the streets. All this was performed in front of the local police walso gave them the big thumbs up.

Bear bile is not a rare and precious traditional Chinese medicine. It can be completely

replaced by herbal or synthetic medicine. Please spread this information around, so that peo

are aware, so that more people will stop buying these bear bile products.

With no demand for bear bile, there is no supply.

Let us save the black bear. Let us all do something about it.



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