Statistics
Name
- circus name Clyde, called Molly at Bear With Us
Species - Ursus Americanus - North
American Black Bear
Origin - Canada
Born - January/February 1986
Sex - female
Weight - healthy 175 to 250 pounds
depending on time of year
Arrival to Bear With Us - December 9,
1994
Molly (Clyde) was an
ex-circus bear who spent much of her performing life in Ireland.
Forced to be a dancing bear (trained by putting the bear in a small
cage, forcing it to stand on hot steel plates and playing music; the
bear learns to associate the music with the pain of having it's feet
burned), Molly developed terrible stereotypic behavior. She was
sold to a private menagerie and not well fed or cared for. The
Irish SPCA and most notably a man named Brendan Price was responsible
for Molly's arrival to the Bear With Us Sanctuary in Canada, the place
of her origin. Zoocheck Canada helped Mike McIntosh of Bear With
Us financially to get Molly situated in her new country and home at Bear
With Us.