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End Bear Bile Farming

home for Christmas

Thanks to your support, six gorgeous bears who suffered so long on a bile farm got the Christmas they deserved. Toys,
treats and a family who loves them to the moon and back.

The bears arrived at our sanctuary two weeks before Christmas after a gruelling three-day journey from southern Vietnam. One was
missing his tongue, most likely from a ight on a bear farm. These beautiful bears now have a new story of hope – written by you.

Vietnam Bear Rescue Centre
Vietnam
Tam Dao, Vinh Phuc Province,

Snow

Mandala Examination notes
Vet:

DECEMBER 8, 2016
several long claws have
Snow is missing his tongue, and
Winter
pierced his paw pads. Winter is missing a front limb, most
Her teeth are black and fractured.
likely from a trap. usly
Bi Xanh is skinny and frantically hungry. Poe is raveno
nd thin, and very scared of humans. Cranberry is
hungry afered to her.
scared too, lashing out even when food is o
Ivy has painful, fractured teeth and is also quick to lash

out. She’s missing some toes.

JANUARY 6, 2017
.
Bi Xanh
Snow’s claws have been clipped and his wounds cleaned
y he can stand without excruciating pain. Winter
FinallHer stump is badly
has seven badly fractured teeth removed.
scarred. Bi Xanh has put on some weight. His teeth are weak
e is still very thin at just
from years of bar-biting. Po
74kg – about half the weight he should be. Cranberry has
teeth extracted. Ivy has a tooth extracted.
three fractured .
It was rotting so badly it had infected her jawbone

Poe
JANUARY 17, 2017
All six bears are moved from quarantine cages into adjacent
ly get to know each other while
dens where they can gradual
having their own safe space to explore.

TODAY
the time you’re reading this, these six brave bears should
Bye spring sunshine.
be outside exploring and playing in th

Cranberry
a
Dr Mandala Hunter-Ishikaw
Senior Veterinarian

Ivy

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