Boo Boo's strange journey: How a baby black bear got to Wash U

[theHandpuppet]

This article from the St. Louis paper only underscores why the market for exotic animal breeding and selling should be outlawed once and for all!

St Louis Post-Dispatch
11 May 2014
Boo Boo's strange journey: How a baby black bear got to Wash U

ST. LOUIS • The little black bear wasn’t always named Boo Boo.

He started life as Rudy. Yes, as in that Rudy, the famously undersized college football player who fought to get into a game at the University of Notre Dame.

The cub got the name early, in his first few days of life — before his owners sold him at auction, before a local petting zoo hauled him to Washington University. And before he chewed on 18 college students, causing a weeklong rabies scare on campus.

Because, in those touch-and-go hours, Rudy wasn’t doing well....

MORE at http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/boo-boo-s-strange-journey-how-a-baby-black-bear/article_2b20a064-946b-5780-acce-cb5507b9da07.html

[darkangel218]

1. What happened to him, is he still alive?

Poor lil baby bear

[theHandpuppet]

2. The last word on Rudy, from the article...

"For Rudy, the story seems to have a happy ending. The state moved him to the St. Louis Zoo, where he got a thorough checkup, eats five squares a day and awaits word on a future home."

[darkangel218]

3. Damn, thank god!!!

I was so worried they were going to put him down like they said they would.