Oliver The broken Bear, Free After 30 Years In A Bear Bile Farm In China.

[dipsydoodle]

Oliver was one of 10 bears rescued from a bear bile farm in Shandong province, China. 33 years old, he had spent 30 of those in this cage, with a heavy metal jacket and daily painful bile extractions…

Oliver the brown bear have a stunted body, arthritis and mobility problems. His stiff old limbs can never extend normally like a healthy bear. He has compressed lungs from wearing a full metal jacket so tightly around his chest for decades on the farm, and an enlarged heart as a result of it working harder throughout these years. His teeth are broken , and an eye with lens luxation which made him blind and causing him pain, so it had to be removed by surgery.

When Animal Asia rescued him they were very concerned about the state of him. His long, misshapen body was flat to the bottom of his cage and his barely open eyes showed nothing but pain and despair. This old, old bear had simply given up. After 30 years trapped in a tiny cage, as his bile and his life were systematically drained from his body, his rescue was also dramatic for him. Mid-way through a four-day journey back to the sanctuary in Chengdu, he underwent life-saving surgery to remove his gall bladder on the back of a truck, parked in a hospital car-park, amid freezing temperatures and driving rain.

When Oliver’s gall bladder was revealed to the vets they were shocked by its condition. Thickened walls, inflamed tissue and a fully intact, double metal ring completely enveloped in the tissue that had grown around it over the years. Jill Robinson, (MBE, Dr med vet hc, founder and CEO of Animals Asia ) who has witnessed hundreds of bears undergo the same surgery and seen all types of horrific objects used to secure the illegal catheters, was shocked by this latest find: “This is an instrument of torture showing just why this poor bear had been in so much pain”. She snipped away at the tissue to eventually reveal the large, spiral metal disc with a wire hook, previously seen protruding from Oliver’s stomach, attached. The rescue team believes that before they reached the farm, the owners had ripped out the catheters on the bears, causing terrible pain.

See more at: http://truthseekerdaily.com/2013/10/oliver-the-broken-bear-free-after-30-years-in-a-bear-bile-farm-in-china/#sthash.jdcPO4IW.dpuf

[silverweb]

1. Those poor bears!

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Education, education, education is the only thing that will stop the demand for bear bile products and the abuse of these poor creatures.

The active ingredient can be synthesized and is also available in DANDELIONS, for crying out loud, as well as multiple other sources. People need to learn these things.

[malaise]

2. I hate many humans

[Bill Lermer]

10. For the vast majority of history, cruelty to animals has been the norm.

There are exceptions, to be sure...dogs, for instance, have been domesticated for tens of thousands of years. But when it comes to how humans treat non-human animals, the historic norm has ranged from indifference to outright cruelty.

[joeybee12]

3. Ther's a new level of hell for people who did that to Oliver...

How can anyone live with themselves after torturing that animal...any animal?

[Brickbat]

4. Some parts of "traditional medicine" are simply just fucked up.

[Ms. Toad]

6. This is not traditional medicine -

Traditional medicine, which is treating my daughter's liver disorder, use synthetically produced ursodeoxycholic acid.

The insistence on the use of real bear bile - rather than the synthetically produced version - comes from non-Western (e.g. Chinese traditional) medicine

[truebluegreen]

5. I have to go throw up now.

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. bless the people who rescue these poor bears. it makes me sick to think

About the abuse of animals

[nomorenomore08]

8. Even the most ill-treated livestock animals only have to live that way for a few years, at most.

But three whole decades of this shit???

[renie408]

9. How can money be worth giving up your humanity?