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Written by JayBird
22 Responses to “Knut the polar bear is a ‘publicity-addicted psycho’”
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Pretty sure I would qualify any animal capable of ripping my head off on a whim as ‘bitchy’.
That’s just me though, and I’m obviously biased. What with the liking my head to remain in place and such.
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Oh god, Scott, you have issues. All the rest of us are perfectly happy to let irate melodramatic bears rip our heads off.
This is one cute bear. I’d be petulant and diva-esque if I were kept in a cage myself. Get him some nooky and choccie and he’ll be fine.
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Knut on the front of Vanity Fair! How wonderfully divaish! I’m imagining him in the studio, posing and barking out his little furry demands. Quite right, Jaybird, a little bit of female company would probably do the trick. Sweet story.
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I think Lindsay Lohan should do her next gratuitously sexy photo shoot with Knute.
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I agree, Knut has become a spoiled diva just like all the other celebrities !!!
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LOL - great humourous write-up JayBird.
But it is a serious issue. I remember when the poor cub was first abandoned and most animal rights groups were generally in favour of the bear being euthanised as they were perfectly aware of the high levels of clinical insanity amongst polar bears kept in captivity. I remember being on the mydeathspace forum and most were just reacting to the cuteness of the baby - not realising the distress the poor thing would go through in a short space in time.
I remember vividly the insane polar bears at Dublin zoo in the 80s and 90s and have never set foot in one since that time. It’s horrible and distressing for any animal lover. If poor Knut gets much worse it will be best to euthanise him - thankfully he’ll no longer be “cute n fluffy” for misguided types to fawn over and will be allowed some dignity in this unnatural situation.
(Bear in mind that these are my observances and rememberances of past events - if I am mistaken in my understanding of what happens to polar bears bred in capitivity, I will happily receive the correction)
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he probably sees humans as friends … companions and gets upset when he’s alone… more than he needs the adoration. Does he have polerbear pals? maybe they should get him a girlfriend.
Poor baby. What a sweeeeetheeaaaart!!!
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“Bear in mind” heh.
Knut isn’t crazy, but he did grow up surrounded by human beings and probably sees them as a big part of his life. When there aren’t people around, I’m sure he wonders where they went and it distresses him, he’s not some diva wondering why his adoring fans aren’t there. He does sound lonely, I hope he isn’t kep separate from the other polar bears. if he has the opportunity to bond with other bearsm this might become less of a problem. -
But Mairead, he’s got a career now. He’s on the cover of Vanity Fair! What about product endorsement? Chat show appearances? A book?
(Seriously, it’s no life for a wild animal - even with every argument going, I can’t bear seeing wild animals in captivity.)
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Geronimo!! What does he have to do to get you to understand he’s not right!?!?! Get a ratty multicoloured weave? Only wear nasty brown boots? Glug frappadappachiccinos all day!!!
I swear, the second he starts yapping with a cod English accent I’m going in there with the stun gun
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You’ve gone too far! As if he’s the furry version of Britney! That’s low, mairead. Low
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Poor Knut. He probably is hitting bear puberty by now. I’m sure he is very well taken care of, but I’m still not really down with zoos as a whole.
Mairead~ Whats the story with the insane polar bears at the Dublin zoo?
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They were bred captive bears, housed in a generally sterile environment. It was an old-fashioned state zoo in a poor country in the 80s, but it was radically overhauled from the late 80s onwards, the wikipedia page covers that - and the pun is unintentional)
The story came to light, c.1990 that the poor things were literally insane - pacing around shaking their heads from side to side or swimming backwards and forwards for hours on end.
A new enclosure was built for them, with an icehouse - but since then, the polar bears have seemingly been removed altogether to a zoo in Hungary. c.2003?
Sorry I can’t post a link to newpaper articles on it because one Irish broadsheet charges a fortune for its archive, and the other is a bleedin’ rag anyway.
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i’ve got nothing but kind things to say about the little b’tard.
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that the Britney Spears syndrome , poor bear
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Obviously, the bear is used to human companionship and doesn’t like to be alone. The lonliness issue is affects all confined animals, but as he’s bonded with humans, more than typically, he specifically craves human companionship, and doesn’t like being left alone in confinement all day.
How does this make him a psychopath?
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I’m all for sending him to an animal park. The sooner the better, they just need to do it gradually.
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The problem with Knut is that he doesn’t see himself as a polar bear. He thinks he’s a human and that is definitely not a good mental thing.
Maybe a joined session of Britney & Knut on Dr Phill’s (or Oprah, I’m hesitating) might solve the problem.
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Thanks Mairead! I’ll go check wiki for all the detail. Guess I could have done that in the 1st place
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god the title of this post along with the picture of him as a baby makes me laugh EVERY time i see it.
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Aw poor Knut! He is now an official diva!
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ha ha ha!! cute, funny story jaybird. love it!
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