We Share Our Home With 14 Bears | BEAST BUDDIES

do I prefer bears to humans are you playing with your tongue well actually sometimes I do beautiful my name is Monica weldie I am president owner and senior trainer here at Barrow dice ranch [Music] my bears are part of my family right now we have 14 bears over the course of 91 years some of our bears have been born in the family some have been adopted we're licensed to take in bears that need homes so our oldest bears right now are 23 years old and our youngest ones are five my son was raised with the Bears he started to interact as a young child I've been around the bear since I was three years old our bears live on the back of our property behind our our main house but they're like family to me I see them every day so they're just my siblings basically I go out and take care of the Bears feed them clean them interact with them a little bit you know talk to them you let them out in the habitat so they can run around play be bears here at Barrow dice Ranch our bears have natural habitats to come out and enjoy they have a springfed pond we have pools grass trees my husband and I thought it would be nice for our bears to live like a bear this year we lost my husband my partner suddenly unexpectedly passed away it's been a huge loss for our family and our bears but my son and I decided to continue the family legacy and go on for my husband the Bears have been in their family 91 years and he's greatly missed but I see my husband everywhere I look I know the Bears miss him they do notice his absence [Music] well my dad was my teacher my best friend my he taught me everything I know my mom is also very close to the Bears you know they're her family to my mom and dad they were everything to them so she loves the Bears very much I'm very proud of her for carrying on my dad's legacy with me it's uh it's not easy but we're we're getting through it this is Kenai he's a five year old male grizzly bear we adopted him about three years ago he's not full-grown he's got about five more years to grow he loves attention and he knows I have a honey bottle behind my back oh yeah big creases your sloppy kisser I'll put a little bit on your Pocky I know you want the whole bottle our daily interaction with our bears is communication loving petting they thrive on that physical contact we never forget they're a bear they're a bear first even though we share our lives with them we respect them for what they are and we want them to live like a bear so we built bear a nice ranch sticky can see you got sticky kisses Kenai sticky kisses good job good job right now I'm heading Lucy Lucy and her sister Tootsie these two are both eight years old hi Misha I'm Misha that's one of Kenai sisters Nisha is five years old good girl yeah to us they're very safe they're not big on strangers but which is understandable we've raised them self to us they're very very sweet come on Freddie boy good boy this is Fred and Ginger they're both 23 years old European brown bears we had both of their parents and their siblings and when they were born they fit in the palm of your hand Fred weighs around 800 pounds and Ginger is about 400 pounds my mom hand raised both of these from Cubs my Bears have never attacked anybody we never had an incident with the public or with ourselves I do have a few scars on me from their claws that's natural it's a very powerful animal they'll lick us in and kiss us and and hug on us and touch us I've worked with bears 37 years and I have all my fingers so it's a good track record you play with you dumb one more time you may kiss good boy Kenai good boy yeah I'm sure there's people out there that say you shouldn't have a bear and human care they should be in the wild you know open good boy hold it hold it good boy well what I have to say to people who say that first of all the wild is disappearing there are so many people on this planet we are taking all the resources from the animals all their habitat is shrinking six out of eight species of bears on our planet are threatened and endangered are my bears safer with me than in the wild I would say so I have spent 37 years of my life with bears and I plan to as long as I'm physically able to I will work with the Bears till I grow up very old and I feel confident they will be taken care of after I'm gone we didn't see it ending with my husband's death so we are gonna continue the family wealthy family legacy and keep there at ice ranch thriving I love sharing my life with my bears I'm very blessed [Music] you you

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Id: YNpCXG66_PA

Length: 6min 54sec (414 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 23 2018