Anyone who finds injured wildlife should seek local support for the animal rather than attempting to deal with the situation themselves, the director of an animal rescue charity says after two men picked up a black bear cub in northern Ontario and took it on a 10-hour drive south in their vehicle.
The executive director of Chatham-Kent’s Pet and Wildlife Rescue Centre said her organization took care of the bear cub during the Labour Day weekend after it was found in the back of a van in Windsor, Ont.
Myriam Armstrong said two men found the bear in the middle of the road while driving near Cochrane, Ont., decided to bring it to Windsor and said they fed the bear food from Taco Bell.
“We actually took the bear from the back of their van and they were pretty pleased that they brought the bear down here and that they were feeding …