Bear meat question

Hello I know this may be a lost cause but I’m trying to figure out how I can find bear meat. I know I can’t purchase it but I believe I can have it given to me, and I can pay for shipping and handling. I am in London Ontario. This is not for human use, and I do understand the need to cook it through thoroughly for parasites. I’ve been trying to find bear meat for the past few years to no avail as I’m unsure how to even look for it within the online community. Every year for my dogs’ birthdays I give them a new exotic meat, I’ve run out of other options and bear meat seemed like a great choice in their later years as they are 14 now and am unsure if this will be their last 1-2 birthdays which is why I’m on the search. Only hoping for 1-2 lbs, preferably steaks/hunks not so much sausages or ground up but I understand pickers can’t be choosers as I really am just desperate at this point as I know no local hunters. Their birthdays are June 17, and so at this point I’m just hoping for some advice, direction, connection or a little help in making their birthdays’ tasty.

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Originally Posted by HuntingForBear

Hello I know this may be a lost cause but I’m trying to figure out how I can find bear meat. I know I can’t purchase it but I believe I can have it given to me, and I can pay for shipping and handling. I am in London Ontario. This is not for human use, and I do understand the need to cook it through thoroughly for parasites. I’ve been trying to find bear meat for the past few years to no avail as I’m unsure how to even look for it within the online community. Every year for my dogs’ birthdays I give them a new exotic meat, I’ve run out of other options and bear meat seemed like a great choice in their later years as they are 14 now and am unsure if this will be their last 1-2 birthdays which is why I’m on the search. Only hoping for 1-2 lbs, preferably steaks/hunks not so much sausages or ground up but I understand pickers can’t be choosers as I really am just desperate at this point as I know no local hunters. Their birthdays are June 17, and so at this point I’m just hoping for some advice, direction, connection or a little help in making their birthdays’ tasty.

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Hope this post is legit-has many signs of trolling...no offence intended,and sorry if i am wrong.

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Originally Posted by gbk

Hope this post is legit-has many signs of trolling...no offence intended,and sorry if i am wrong.

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Hey you'd make a good mod. Noticed the post also and thought it a bit odd but follows the rules of the forum as nothing illegal about receiving a gift of game and the OP acknowledges its illegal to buy it. Personally think other than someone coming across a road kill can't fathom some one giving up a hard earned hunk of bear meat.

And I can't imagine giving my 14 year old dog game meat received from a stranger who may indeed hate dogs and want to poison them. What is this guy thinking? Feed your dogs food you can trust. We're not launching rockets here buddy.

I love my dog probably as much as I do my kids. On her birthday I give her extra treats or a bone. She is extremely smart but I can't imagine she even knows why I'm giving her extra or does she care. If this is a real post, give your dogs a better treat and they will enjoy it just as much

Weird thread. I don’t own a dog but personally speaking, the idea of feeding choice cuts from a wild animal that I worked hard to take seems disrespectful to the animal that gave up its life to feed me.

If you want to feed a dog wild game, give it a gopher or something similar or the entrails from an animal. Mind you that many critters carry parasites.

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Originally Posted by Sam Menard

Weird thread. I don’t own a dog but personally speaking, the idea of feeding choice cuts from a wild animal that I worked hard to take seems disrespectful to the animal that gave up its life to feed me.

If you want to feed a dog wild game, give it a gopher or something similar or the entrails from an animal. Mind you that many critters carry parasites.

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Though I grew up in a time when dogs were just dogs - loved but still a dog. Now a days they have taken on the role of children for some and for good or bad it is what it is.

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Originally Posted by finsfurfeathers

Though I grew up in a time when dogs were just dogs - loved but still a dog. Now a days they have taken on the role of children for some and for good or bad it is what it is.

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Many people are foregoing children for pests.

I’m not passing judgement as raising kids can be difficult, however every generation faced un-precedented challenges (famine, desease, economic disasters, wars,). Seems odd that those challenges seemed to spawn more kids back then than now.

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Originally Posted by Sam Menard

Many people are foregoing children for pests.

I’m not passing judgement as raising kids can be difficult, however every generation faced un-precedented challenges (famine, desease, economic disasters, wars,). Seems odd that those challenges seemed to spawn more kids back then than now.

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You mean pets right? Though some kids these days are pest.
Here's food for thought. Does the world need more children? Might not be a bad ideal to go the other way.
Might be a discussion for another thread and leave the hunt for bear meat on its way.

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Originally Posted by finsfurfeathers

...can't fathom some one giving up a hard earned hunk of bear meat.

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The thought is unbearable to me!