Bear Left - Redux

Boo, the fugitive grizzly bear who made a daring, and quite extraordinary, escape a while back has stunned everyone involved by breaking back into the grizzly gulag! We first made mention of Boo here and noted that we might feel inclined to knock a 400 pound door off it's hinges if we knew someone was planning to neuter us. But Boo has returned all on his own. Which simply can't mean anything good for the gulag guards!

GOLDEN, British Columbia - Boo the runaway grizzly bear has returned on his own to his enclosure at a resort, apparently because of the ease of getting food and the end to the mating season, officials said.

After nearly three weeks on the lam after busting out of confinement, the 4-year-old bear ambled back into the 22-acre artificial enclosure Saturday, said Michael Dalzell, sales and marketing director at Kicking Horse Mountain Resort outside this town on the western slope of the Canadian Rockies.

"We believe he came back because he recognizes this as his comfort area and a reliable source of food," Dalzell said Monday.

Resort operators should have plenty of time to figure out how to keep Boo from getting loose again, he said.

"We feel that now that mating season is over, his urge to escape will be minimized," Dalzell said.

Boo escaped twice within two weeks last month, the second time on June 25, when he bashed a nearly 400-pound steel door off its four bolts, destroyed an electrical box while tearing through two electric fences and scrambled over a 12-foot fence anchored with two feet of steel below ground.

Between escapes, resort operators and officials in the provincial Environment Ministry contemplated neutering him, but he made his second getaway before they could act.

"We're working again with the MOE to find a solution," Dalzell said, adding that he couldn't say what solutions were being considered.

Mr. Dalzell, with what here at Blue Crab Boulevard know to be the Truth (please note capitalization. Thank you.) we can inform you with no doubt whatsoever that Boo's return is a trick. He is chowing down a few free meals and will lull you into a false sense of security. Then when you go to try to neuter him don't be surprised when he turns the tables on you! And he will.

Don't say we didn't warn you!