Blame the province: “A woman just west of Grande Prairie, Alta., says the province’s wildlife officers could have prevented her two miniature donkeys from being killed by a grizzly bear in May.” [CBC]
Blame the province: “A woman just west of Grande Prairie, Alta., says the province’s wildlife officers could have prevented her two miniature donkeys from being killed by a grizzly bear in May.” [CBC]
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I can’t believe an attorney actually took this case. It’s really, really difficult from preventing a grizzly bear from doing ANYTHING it really wants to do.
I think they should sue the bear.
Bob
“Blame the province: “A woman just west of Grande Prairie, Alta., says the province’s wildlife officers could have prevented her two miniature donkeys from being killed by a grizzly bear in May” by stationing the armed wildlife officers next to the miniature donkeys. See, they could have done something. Idiot, oh, sorry. My wife says I need to be more positively affirming.
Perhaps if she had bothered to arm the donkeys…
Stationing a couple of slow lawyers near the donkeys would have just as effective as armed wildlife officers in protecting the donkeys and prevented harm to the bear.
I’m not a Canadian lawyer, but I did do some research back in 2006 for an American municipality as to whether they’d be liable for property damage from wildlife that lived on municipal property. Virginia, New York, and Vermont are against the principle, even if (as in New York and Vermont’s cases) the wildlife at issue is classified as endangered and therefore private citizens are restricted from setting out traps or similarly hunting the animals.
Nettles, perhaps the bear would have eaten the lawyers, and then not bothered with the donkeys.
Bears are just a fact of life here in northern Canada. I live within the city limits and have looked up from my computer to see a grizzly bear walking across the lawn.