Aug. 8, 2025 7 AM PT
To the editor: I generally reread items within the Opinion part to make sure I’ve understood all of the nuances or to grapple with a selected perspective on a problem, together with my very own. Till right now, I don’t suppose I’ve ever learn a information merchandise twice. Actually, I used to be in such disbelief that I needed to learn it 3 times (“Bear trouble in Sierra Madre: After the Eaton fire, home invasions rise sharply,” Aug. 1).
Authorities shot and killed a bear that had been tranquilized? The bear was not a risk to anybody whereas tranquilized. But, as an alternative of trucking her farther into the wilds and releasing her, they discovered it essential to kill her? To shoot a contained animal is an act of cruelty. If there have been a respectable purpose to euthanize the bear, there are humane methods to place an animal down painlessly.
It goes with out saying that nobody desires a bear breaking into their dwelling, however this ill-advised try at an answer is an pointless act of barbarism, a 2025 model of the ending of the 1957 movie “Previous Yeller.” Besides that taking pictures that canine was an act of affection. Capturing this bear was an act of brutality.
Teresa DeCrescenzo, Studio Metropolis
