BC Bear Cub Rescued From Drowning
It all started in early December, 2007 when a
former Critter Care Intern, Jocelyn, who lives
and
 works
in Salmon Arm, heard about a sighting of a small
black bear cub wondering around the banks of
Shuswap Lake with no evidence of mommy anywhere
around. She decided to check it out and see if
it was okay. So she went down to the lake and
started to walk along the beach.
Soon afterward she saw this critter struggle
helplessly in the lake desperately trying to
climb onto a log boom without any success in
sight. There was no sign whatsoever of the
mother bear. Jocelyn new that this cub was not
going to make it and would soon drown, so
without any hesitation Jocelyn jumped into the
lake after it.
The cub knew that Jocelyn was trying to help him
and
 made
no attempt to fight her. Jocelyn quickly took it
back to the vets office where she works and it
was checked over and dried off the best they
could do. She called to Critter Care and was
told to get it here as soon as possible. The
next day she got into her car and in very bad
weather drove all the way down to our center in
Langley with him.
Our staff checked him over and discovered his
undercoat was still very wet and he could
develop pneumonia so proceeded to dry him with a
hair dryer which he enjoyed very much. He
weighed in at 24 pounds and was estimated to be
6 months old. They settled him in our triage
centre in a kennel with a couple of hotties and
bit of food.
We are happy to report that Boomer is thriving
and is now in an outside enclosure with a room
mate named Teddy who is about the same age and
was admitted a month later. Both are becoming
big boys and have bonded.
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