When you’re driving along, you sometimes see animals standing along the road and it may concern you. You wonder if they are going to be able to get across street safely or if they are going to cross the street at all. Some of us recognize that they are in danger when they are in such a location so we do what we can to make sure that they get across the street safely. We may stop the car to give them safe passage or perhaps we may blow the horn and send them scurrying back into the woods.
In New Hampshire, there is a police officer that works for the town of Carol Police Department. He also saw some animals and they were crossing the road. It was a mama bear and her bear cubs, so he was really concerned about their safety. As it turns out, there was something taking place that seemed rather unusual to him. Fortunately, he did the right thing.
The mother bear was walking across the street and the cubs were following closely behind. As it turns out, one of the cubs could not keep up because he was sick.
She tried her best to keep all of the little ones with her but the one youngster just couldn’t keep up. Eventually, he stopped in the middle of the road.
That is when the mother bear did something unexpected. She left the cub right there in the middle-of-the-road and continued on with her other children. The police officer knew that it was time for him to step in.
“After doing some bear traffic control we had to take one bear cub in for Fish and Game to be rehabilitated as it was too weak to keep up with its mom and siblings,” wrote the police department.
They also found another bear cub on the same day. It was the runt of the litter and it had been left behind as well.
“This is the mother that had five cubs out in Bretton Woods, another cub [the runt of the litter] had to be picked up yesterday as well. This leaves her with three other very healthy cubs that she can now focus on and take care of. The other two will be rehabilitated and returned to the wild when they are stronger,” said the police department.
The officer who saved the cubs was aware of what he was doing. It turned out that he saved more than one life that day, he saved two lives.