Case in point: just hours after this footage was released, that very same polar bear ate another dog alive.
"That was the only day we didn't feed the f--king bears, the only night we didn't put anything out," Churchill resident Brian Ladoon told Bryce Hoye at CBC News.
Ladoon, who runs the Mile 5 Dog Sanctuary in Churchill, regularly feeds the polar bears in the area to try and dissuade them from picking off his dogs for their meal.
"Ladoon asked the government if he could take over a parcel of Crown land beside Hudson Bay," Eliasson reports. "He got no response. So the next bear he shot, he cut off its head and mailed it to the natural resources office in Winnipeg."
While Ladoon's conservation work with the dogs is surely valuable, people have taken issue with the fact that he ties his dogs up - something that's led to the deaths of several dogs over the years, including the one last week.
"The dog was chained up and they're totally vulnerable," Stirling told CBC News.
For our part, we need to stop anthropomorphising wild animals, because what was hailed as some strangely chill behaviour from the polar bear was more likely it playing with its food.
And not being able to tell the difference between the two could be seriously dangerous, not just for dogs, but for people living in the vicinity of these apex predators, whose numbers are now dwindling before our eyes.
http://www.sciencealert.com/sorry-to-ruin-your-dreams-but-that-dog-petting-polar-bear-just-ate-a-husky-alive
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