Last restaurant bear saved from a bad attitude - now Mark gets a new home
Created: 09/12/2022, 1:00 p.m
By: Sandra Barbara Furtner
Brown bear Mark was kept as an attraction in Albania.
For more than 20 years he lived in a cage next to a restaurant and vegetated.
Four paws got him out.
The last so-called restaurant bear in Albania is being brought to Austria to finally lead a species-appropriate life there, according to a statement from the animal welfare organization Four Paws.
24-year-old brown bear Mark has spent most of his life serving as an attraction for onlookers and luring them into a pub.
He lived in a tiny metal cage next to the restaurant in Tirana.
Now he has been rescued by the animal welfare organization Four Paws and is allowed to move to the Arbesbach Bear Sanctuary.
Last restaurant bear saved from a bad attitude - now Mark gets a new home
Brown bear Mark lived in a cage that was far too small and served as a restaurant attraction in Albania.
© Four Paws
"We are very happy that we will soon be able to welcome a new, fourth resident in our bear sanctuary.
With the bear Mark, Four Paws also ends the terrible chapter of the restaurant bears in Albania.
We can offer Mark a bear-friendly home and do everything we can to give him a good old age,” says Sigrid Zederbauer, manager of the Arbesbach Bear Sanctuary.
On their Facebook page, they report on their rescue operation, the dramatic circumstances and the planned move to Austria.
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Mark's health is far from good.
The bear is very overweight because it was probably fed unsuitable food and had too little exercise.
"His teeth are partially broken, probably because he regularly chewed on the steel bars of his cage."
But as soon as Mark has arrived in the bear sanctuary, he is treated by a veterinarian and lovingly cared for.
There he lives with three other brown bears on more than 14,000 square meters and thanks to caves and forests he also has the opportunity to retreat to hibernate in peace.
According to the animal protection organization, Mark is the last bear to suffer from these terrible housing conditions.
In addition, they want to continue to work in Albania to completely ban bear keeping.
“No private person should be allowed to keep a bear or any other wild animal.
We therefore remain in intensive contact with the government in Tirana in order to ultimately achieve this goal of a ban," says Sigrid Zederbauer.
Many users are enthusiastic about the rescue operation and thank the animal protection organization.
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"Thanks to Four Paws that the bear's ordeal is finally over.
I wish him many more happy years in Arbesbach”.
"Have a safe trip little bear, soon you'll be fine with your new friends.
That's where your new life begins."
"I wish Mark a good trip!
With you, thank God, he'll be fine and he can lead a bear-friendly life".
