If a bear’s going to lose a limb, it might as well be in front of a veterinary clinic.
The familiar wooden statue of a waving bear that stands on the north side of the intersection of South Boulder Road and Main Street in Louisville lost its right arm earlier this month. After bandaging him up, the employees and owner of Animalhouse Veterinary Clinic, the bear’s caretakers, are scrambling to find a way and the means to put him back together.
Clinic employees aren’t sure how the bear lost its arm, but witnesses reported seeing a child climbing on the bear and swinging from the arm on the day it broke.
“We knew it was weak,” Animalhouse veterinarian Janet Glenn said. “It probably didn’t take much, and we have kids climbing on it all the time. But we don’t even know that’s what happened.”
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