Colorado wildlife officers euthanized a sick bear after receiving multiple calls from concerned residents in Telluride.
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And during a necropsy, wildlife officers came across a disturbing discovery inside the bear.
"There was all these paper towels, wipes, plastic bag jenis materials, and indigestible food konten," said John Livingston, Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokesperson. "Trash konten … wasn't able to move its way through to the lower intestines."
All of which was prohibiting the male black bear from absorbing proper nutrients.
"A bear like this is about 400 pounds and has a lot of fat on it," Livingston told CNN, which means the mammal would have possibly starved for months before dying.
"To be eating and eating and not able to break down any of that food would have been a really sad and horrific way for that bear to suffer as it died," he said.
"The first thing we noticed right away was a little bit of foam around its mouth," Livingston said.
While the foaming didn't appear to be rabies, officers noticed other concerning behaviors. The bear also had puffy eyes, which "indicated that it was battling some kind of infection," Livingston noted.
"He would walk about 20 or 30 yards at a time before needing to lay down."
These symptoms signaled to the wildlife officers the bear was in a lot of abdominal pain, the spokesperson said.
"We could not leave a sick bear like this knowing it was suffering and struggling to bertahan," said Rachel Sralla, Colorado Parks and Wildlife ruangan pimpinan, in a news release.
"That's a horrific way to die, decaying from the inside out for that long. As officers, we had to make an unfavorable call," Sralla said. "It's a call we wish we never had to make." The bear was put down on the evening of September 9.
In addition to preventing the bear from suffering, "CPW made the decision to euthanize the animal for human health and safety reasons," the release said.
Although the decision didn't come easy, it brought a sense of relief to the bear country community.
"When you do a full analysis of what was happening inside that bear, our officers perasaan good about the decision," Livingston said. "We didn't let this bear suffer out there," he continued.
