Call Now: Roadside Zoo Used Fireworks to Steal Trembling Wolf Puppies and Wailing Bear Cubs

Please call Bear Country U.S.A. at 605-343-2290, press 0 to speak with a representative, and politely urge this roadside zoo to end its cruel breeding program.

Please let the following scenarios guide your call.

If you’re misleadingly told that the babies have to be removed for their safety:

• A mother’s care is essential for any infant’s health and well-being, and reputable facilities ensure that mothers and their young stay together. Bear Country U.S.A.’s employees admitted that the facility continues to breed animals and take the infants from their mothers because the baby animals attract visitors, but this cruel practice is plainly not in the best interests of the animals.

If you’re misleadingly told that “hand-raising” the babies is important to their long-term care:

• Reputable facilities “hand-raise” animals only when absolutely necessary for their health and hold themselves to higher standards of care than those employed by Bear Country U.S.A., which ripped these young infants from their mothers as a matter of course—just to use the babies to attract customers.

If asked what about the breeding program is cruel:

• Breeding bears and wolves only to tear the weeks-old, unweaned babies away from their mothers by using explosives and other terrorizing tactics is inherently cruel and detrimental to the animals’ well-being.

If you’re misleadingly told that the breeding program is important to conservation or education:

• Reputable facilities do not breed animals only to remove the infants prematurely from their mothers.
• Accredited facilities work with teams of experts in wildlife biology and provide animals with the highest standards of care. Bear Country U.S.A. is a tourist trap apparently willing to risk the lives of bears, wolves, and employees to turn a profit.

If misleadingly told that allowing animals to breed provides them with more natural lives:

• There’s nothing “natural” about having your babies taken away from you under duress year after year.

If you’re asked for specifics about reputable facilities:

• Invite the representative to contact PETA for more information.

After you’ve made your call, please let us know how it went.

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