{"id":206997,"date":"2025-10-12T07:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T07:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/206997\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T07:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T07:41:09","slug":"sow-put-down-after-chilliwack-resident-found-hand-feeding-it-and-2-cubs-in-residential-neighbourhood-b-c-cos-fraser-valley-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/206997\/","title":{"rendered":"Sow put down after Chilliwack resident found hand-feeding it and 2 cubs in residential neighbourhood: B.C. COS | Fraser Valley Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3d542cd1-6bea-4515-91d7-82b5a65cb743.png\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image: Matt Bartha \/ Security guards responded to a street just east of Chilliwack General Hospital this past Thursday, Oct. 9 for a bear sighting.<\/p>\n<p>By Mike Vanden Bosch<\/p>\n<p>Chilliwack resident under investigation<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tOct 10, 2025 | 10:40 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>CHILLIWACK \u2014 The British Columbia Conservation Officer Service says it is investigating a Chilliwack resident for hand-feeding bears which resulted in a sow being put down and two cubs being relocated to a rehab centre. <\/p>\n<p>According to a statement on the B.C. Conservation Officer Service Facebook page, conservation officers were provided information from the public about an individual found hand-feeding a sow and two cubs in a residential neighbourhood in Chilliwack. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a direct result from this individual feeding the family unit of bears, the sow had to be destroyed, and the two cubs were taken to a rehabilitation center so they can be relocated next spring,\u201d the B.C. COS wrote in a statement. \u201cFeeding dangerous wildlife, such as bears, creates a serious public safety risk. Wildlife fed by humans lose their sense of fear and associate people as a source to get food, as opposed to foraging for their natural nutrients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains active and ongoing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Matt Bartha \/ Security guards responded to a street just east of Chilliwack General Hospital this past&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,44937,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-206997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-chilliwack-news-fraser-valley-abbotsford-weather-traffic-lower-mainland-fvt","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}