From Lehighvalleylive

A Ross Township woman who keeps exotic animals as pets was killed this evening after she was attacked by her pet black bear, an official with the Pennsylvania Game Commission said.

Tim Conway, the game commission’s information educational supervisor for the northeast region, said Walz went inside the bear’s 15-by-15-foot steel and concrete cage to clean it and feed the bear.

Conway said he wanted to stress this was not a free-roaming bear and the public was not in any danger. Also kept at the house are a Bengal tiger and an African lion. Both of those animals were licensed by the state to be kept as pets, Conway said.

Two things.  First of all I’m not denying that this is a tragic death and my heart goes out to Kelly Ann Walz’s family.  But I mean come on guys.  Is this a surprise?  When you have a 350lb “pet” with razor claws and teeth that can cut through glass, you might not want to have too much alone time with it.   It’s like when Sigfried and Roy were attacked.  Was that really a surprise?  I mean you’re slapping a tiger in the face for Christ’s sake.  I would say sooner or later they’ll get kind of pissed.

Number two:  What the article fails to mention is that it’s more than likely this bear will get slaughtered.  And there’s absolutely no reason that it should.