2 bear cubs to spend winter at LTWC
By Kendra Kostelecky , KOLO-TV
Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care Sanctuary has two new residents for the winter , and these tiny cubs won’t have time to hibernate.
“They are so much underweight we’re going to have to feed them all winter to try to get them up to that 50-60 pounds,” explains Tom Millham, Secretary Treasurer of LTWC.
The male and female cubs recently came in from Sequioa National Park near Bakersfield, California.
One of the young bears weighed as little as 7 pounds when it arrived.
Now the goal is to get them to eat as much as possible.
I was lucky enough to be able to go down to Stockton where I met the game warden and brought back the first of these two bears to LTWC. Even at 7.1lbs, 1/8 to 1/10 of what her normal body weight should have been, little Sequoia was full of piss and vinegar. By rehabbing at LTWC these young bears have been given the best chances possible to survive and go on to live a long, healthy, and wild life.