Squeezes Are Nothing Case Study

Squeezes are nothing. Jim Kowalczik embraces bears.

Kowalczik lies on the ground as his 1,500-pound bear amigo, Jimbo, rests an overwhelming paw on his abdomen. He bolsters Jimbo a marshmallow from his mouth and giggles as a major bear tongue drools on his ear.

In the event that that sounds self-destructive, consider that Kowalczik and his significant other, Susan, have watched over Jimbo for right around 23 years, since he first went to the couple's upstate New York asylum for harmed or undesirable creatures as a container sustaining offspring.

"He'll play with all of you day on the off chance that you have room schedule-wise," Kowalczik says after a late clowning around session, including that it's lucky the bear doesn't toss his weight

"What you see is the thing that you get."

The couple has been restoring squirrels, ducks, deer, mink and different creatures together since the mid 1990s. The primary objective is to discharge creatures, however the bears here can't be discharged in view of wounds or on the grounds that they are excessively acclimated, making it impossible to imprisonment.

Bears are in 57-year-old Susan Kowalczik's bloodline. Her dad, Albert Rix, was an outstanding carnival veteran from Germany who raised Syrian cocoa bears. Jim, 60, is a resigned prison guard.

The Kowalcziks financed the wander out of their own pockets until making the charitable a year ago, which permits them to take gifts. It's still only them, in addition to chief Kerry Clair, who handles authoritative obligations.

The recordings help with presentation. Be that as it may, specialists are quite clear: Do not get very close with bears, as Kowalczik does.

Indeed, even with hostage bears, there's a shot their senses will assume control, says Matt Merchant, senior natural life scholar with New York's Department of Environmental Conservation. Also, there are intrinsic risks of moving around with a creature that is seventy five percent of a