LOS ANGELES: A bear that became an online celebrity has been recaptured after making his way yet again back to Los Angeles — and this time will get a new life in a “Club Med” for cuddly but dangerous animals.
Nicknamed “Meatball” and with his own Twitter account, the bear had already been returned to the wild twice after being found snaffling for food in the Los Angeles suburbs, the last time in July.
On that occasion he was tranquilized after being found asleep in a tree, and bundled off to the Los Angeles National Forest, a long way from the suburb of Glendale, from which he got his Twitter handle @TheGlendaleBear. The sanctuary’s director Pat Craig said Meatball — also known as Glen Bearian from his time spent in Glendale — can look forward to a 720 acre habitat where more than 80 bears roam free.
“The great thing is that bears, they get incredible food here. And that’s the No. 1 thing bears live for.. It’s actually kind of like the Club Med for bears,” he told the Los Angeles Times. “It’s a huge relief,” Sarah Aujero, 29, who runs his Twitter account which has 28,000 followers, told the newspaper. “He needs a place where he ... can have all the food and facilities for him to have a happy life.”
On his Twitter feed there was sadness at his departure, but relief that he was going to a good home. “Will miss hearing of your local escapades,” wrote @AlphaGrannyN.
Celebrity LA bear to get new ‘Club Med’ life
