Winnie the Pooh Didn't Know What to Do. . . .

Is it bad that I think a Jarhead cartoon would be awesome? Like Yogi Bear meets the Archies.

Ten days? How did it drink water?

I didn't think an animal could survive for ten days without water.

Ten days is a long time to go without water.

Wild!

A friend of mine, an animal rescue person, did the same thing with a skunk. (Well, not exactly the same, Mama skunk wasn't standing by waiting to rip her arms off.)

But it was a wild skunk, and it let her catch it, pry off the plastic mayonnaise jar, and she didn't even get sprayed. Some people have a knack with animals.

Water from breath and condensation?

Aww, poor thing. So much for recycling.

Bears hibernate for long periods. Maybe that had something to do with surviving without water for that long.

Plot Device said:

Ten days? How did it drink water?

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Bird of Prey said:

He didn't. They saved his life. . . .

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But ten days??

Williebee said:

I didn't think an animal could survive for ten days without water.

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night-flyer said:

Ten days is a long time to go without water.

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Exactly.

jennontheisland said:

Water from breath and condensation?

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That's a stretch.

Don said:

Bears hibernate for long periods. Maybe that had something to do with surviving without water for that long.

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But it was a mere cub. The physical preparation for hibernation is quite extensive, and a bear needs to be super-duper fat before entering into that winter sleep mode. But that's for adults, and yet this was a case of a cub. While I'll concede perhaps some kind of an emergency death-avoiding safeguard kicked itself on in the cub's inner metabolic wiring allowing a quasi-hibernation function to swing into operation, eating away at the cub's own body fat to try and keeo it alive (including synthesizing water from the body fat) he must have exhausted a significant portion of that body fat during those ten days. And now I fear he won't be ready for winter.

Central Florida? Something tells me the winter might not be too harsh.

Good thing they got it off. The bear would have starved.

SPMiller said:

Central Florida? Something tells me the winter might not be too harsh.

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Ah-- Central Florida adds even more fuel to my arguemnt.

1) Perhaps he is a breed of bear who doesn't even hibernate -- thus lacking the ability to swicth on that emergency inner metabolizing thingy.

2) Perhaps it's been hot as effin' hell down there, and the poor bear tiny cub has been rapidly dehydrating -- moreso than a bear in (say) Washigton state might be dehydrating.

So I again have to ask: ten days? Is this reporter sure about that?

If he did have it on 10 days+, he prolly learned to dunk his head deep enough to get a drink. It's not like the thing is air tight. It might seem a stretch, but when you want water, you hang around water struggling until you get some frickin water.

Horses with grazing muzzles, which have small holes for eating drinking and breathing quickly figure out how to get by. Sure it's not a jug on their whole head, but even the thickest horses stop standing around pouting and get down to figuring it out. (including how to rip off their muzzles 20 different ways, but that's another story.)

Fenika said:

If he did have it on 10 days+, he prolly learned to dunk his head deep enough to get a drink. It's not like the thing is air tight. It might seem a stretch, but when you want water, you hang around water struggling until you get some frickin water.

Horses with grazing muzzles, which have small holes for eating drinking and breathing quickly figure out how to get by. Sure it's not a jug on their whole head, but even the thickest horses stop standing around pouting and get down to figuring it out. (including how to rip off their muzzles 20 different ways, but that's another story.)

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Oh, ye with a horse in thine avatar -- thank you for clarifying this mystery!

My heart goes out to that bear, and its mama, but there is something oddly adorable about the predicament. It does indeed remind me of Winnie The Pooh!