Bear cub found in middle of Comox Valley highway euthanized
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The BC Conservation Officer Service says a cub seen wandering alone along Highway 19 was too injured and weak to survive.
An effort to save a suspected orphaned bear cub in the Comox Valley has come to a sad end.
The BC Conservation Officer Service (COS) has confirmed the cub seen wandering alone along Highway 19 was euthanized.
The bear was spotted in the middle of the road in the Buckley Bay area last week.
“I came around the corner and I spotted something black, and as I got closer, it was a little black bear in the middle of between the two lanes,” driver Kim Cooper said.
Cooper says she stopped and snapped a photo of the cub. She and other drivers managed to get the animal off the road by forming a chain, making noise and corralling it.
”He had looked like he had something wrong with his back right leg. More or less his paw,” she said.
Conservation officers were called and determined the cub was too injured and weak to survive.
Cooper says she and some of the other people who stopped to help the bear to safety are upset the cub was put down before being brought to a rehabilitation centre for assessment.
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