Second pln post

Link to article http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/10/24/russia.bear.ice.skating.death/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
In the article Ice skating bear kills Russian circus hand by Yuri Pushkin it talks about a bear that ice skates and he killed his trainer. This article interested me because I never knew bears ice skated. Apparently there was a whole show in Russia where the bears ice skate. “It is unclear what caused the bear to attack Potapov, 25, nearly severing one of his legs while dragging him across the ice by his neck.” I thought this quote was funny because maybe the bear attacked him because the guy was making the bear ICE SKATE! I don’t think that bears want to ice skate. In my opinion training a bear to ice skate is like herding cats: not going to end so well. Aparently this is not the first show of this sort. “Russia has a long-standing tradition of training bears to perform tricks such as riding motorcycles, ice skating, and playing hockey. Fatal attacks are unusual.” Why Russia! Why! I do not get the point of training bears to do that. Bears are very large and have lots of teeth and claws why not train whales or dogs. Something more gentle. I also like how the end of the quote says fatal attacks are unusual implying that there are attacks just usually not fatal. In all I think this was a very interesting story.

(FYI this is the 5th or 6th time i have posted this; it keeps deleting itself and then sends me an email saying my post has been deleted)