http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/3/23/16437/7289 Knut, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoologischer_Garten_Berlin">Berlin Zoo</a>'s polar bear cub, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZLKb_5S21E">is one cute animal</a>.  He's so cute and lovable that <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6486993.stm">he's become the main attraction at the zoo</a> and an object of adoration for Germans.  That adoration deepened due to the fact that his twin brother died shortly after birth, Knut's mother rejected him, and he's been hand raised en-us Sun, 25 Mar 2007 06:49:05 EST Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:58:46 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/3/23/16437/7289#7 oh now I guess this would really annoy some animal rights activists*, but here goes. Polar bears are variously considered <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/faq/">potentially threatened</a>, <a href="http://www.worldwildlife.org/polarbears/">e Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:58:46 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/3/23/16437/7289#6 I can relate to this bear, because I too was rejected by my mother, and the foster parents that raised me often kept me in a cage. A local priest objected to this. He was convinced I was the anti-christ, and wanted me to be put to sleep. Thankfully, no one Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:32:42 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/3/23/16437/7289#5 I gotta say I don't get them at all. Calling for the execution of some animal doesn't make much sense. Now they are saying it's too old to kill.. I don't understand that at all.. if it was okay to kill it before, why would it not be okay to kill it now? Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:25:23 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/3/23/16437/7289#4 <cite>Do you ever get the idea that animal rights activists are only interested in being ornery? I mean, think about it: the objection here is that an animal has been raised being fed unnaturally, and therefore should be killed. But "raised being fed unnat Sun, 25 Mar 2007 14:01:20 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/3/23/16437/7289#3 Maybe they should?   At least Albrecht should.   The Denver Zoo raised two orphaned polar bear cubs, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Klondike-Snow-Denver-Remarkable-Raising/dp/1570980594">Klondike and Snow</a> and now they're still doing well in t Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:33:19 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/3/23/16437/7289#2 <i>animal rights activists</i><p> Activists - plural.  In context from your comment plural construed as many.<p> Activist - singular as in one guy wants the bear killed.  One other thought the bear should have been killed right from the get-go, b Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:23:16 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/3/23/16437/7289#1 Do you ever get the idea that animal rights activists are only interested in being ornery? I mean, think about it: the objection here is that an animal has been raised being fed unnaturally, and therefore should be killed. But "raised being fed unnaturally Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:08:05 EST string http://www.treesandthings.com/search/