Mystery of Unbearably Cute Cub Solved

[jimmy olsen]

 
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mystery-unbearably-cute-cub-named-tahoe-solved-n90961

Mystery of Unbearably Cute Cub Named Tahoe Solved
By Elisha Fieldstadt

For more than a week, a wildlife organization in California has been trying to solve a confounding — albeit adorable — mystery of a baby bear that was left in a kennel on their driveway, and on Friday, they finally got their answer.

A man placed an anonymous call to The BEAR League in Lake Tahoe explaining that he found the cub "crying and hugging her deceased mother," the BEAR League said in a statement.

The statement said that the man must have been the person who dropped off the bear, who they have named "Tahoe," on April 16 because he knew the color of the blanket and kennel she was left in.

Although the man told the BEAR League that authorities told him to leave the bear alone, "his conscience would not allow him to walk away and leave her to die ... thankfully," the statement said.

BEAR League employees brought Tahoe to Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care, Inc., where she was examined by a vet and deemed to be healthy at 5.4 pounds and about 10 weeks old, according to the organization.

Over the past week, the BEAR League's Facebook page has been dedicated to updating Tahoe's fans with her developments. "Soon she will learn how to lap her formula out of a bowl, but there will be lots of messes made in the process," read one post.

Many posts also begged for the person who dropped Tahoe off to come forward, because without her origin, Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care would have trouble determining where she "will be released next winter or spring when she is big enough and ready to conquer the world," Ann Bryant, the Executive Director of Bear League told NBC News.

The caller told the Bear League he found the baby bear near the Humboldt Redwoods State Park, which is nearly 400 miles away from the facility, Bryant said, but her name will remain Tahoe because that's where her new caretakers found her.

[Phillip V]

The news article writer is also cute.

[LaCroix]

cute? it looks like an oversized rodent

[alfred russel]

The news article writer is also cute.

Did Tim post the wrong picture?

[Admiral Yi]

The news article writer is also cute.

She looks like she's 13.

[Grey Fox]

Awww, my stone heart is melting.

[The Brain]

cute? it looks like an oversized rodent

[CountDeMoney]

The news article writer is also cute.

Elisha Fieldstadt is a staff writer for NBC News. She started this role in January of 2014. Fieldstadt is responsible for reporting and writing news and enterprise stories. Fieldstadt joined NBCNews.com as an intern in June 2013 from Baruch College, where she was editor-in-chief of Dollars & Sense magazine. In that role, Fieldstadt edited, wrote and curated multimedia and feature stories for the online magazine. Dollars & Sense recently earned a Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold Crown award.

Fieldstadt is a Harnisch Scholar and a member of the Reynolds Center's Circle of Achievement.

Journalism is such a dying industry, what's left of it is the realm of the right schools and big credentials.  Everybody else writes for the local Penny Saver.  Bet she sucked some awesome cock as an intern, though.

"his conscience would not allow him to walk away and leave her to die ... thankfully,

Anyway, good for him.  He earned his karma for the afterlife.

I love bears; they're so cute, you almost don't even mind getting mauled to death by one.

[grumbler]

I love bears; they're so cute, you almost don't even mind getting mauled to death by one.

signed,

Timothy Treadwell

[derspiess]

[CountDeMoney]

I love bears; they're so cute, you almost don't even mind getting mauled to death by one.

signed,

Timothy Treadwell

  A touching tribute to the human spirit and the capacity for love.  And disembowelment.

[derspiess]

He died to protect bears

Except for the one that ate him and his girlfriend.  They shot the hell out of that one.

[DGuller]

  Katmai has his own national park? 

[CountDeMoney]

He died to protect bears

Except for the one that ate him and his girlfriend.  They shot the hell out of that one.

And that was completely unnecessary.