I have a Rottweiler dog that thinks he's a bear, and that's good enough for me. But as far as the Yeti sightinhgs go, our family thinks it may often be our hairy cousin Jerry. He is never around when bigfoot sightings appear, and since he has always had a big wanderlust, his travel stories seem to place him in the region of the sightings. When he was a young boy, he would hide in tall grass and bushes and shoot passersby in the ass with his Daisy BB gun. He would be dressed in a gorilla suit when he did this, in order to make people think they were being molested by a big hairy ape. Great fun really, unless you were the one getting shot in the ass. He invited me to tag along one afternoon, and he shot his big brother in the ass just outside my grandmother's house. "Mama, mama", he cried, "Jerry is shooting me in the ass again with his BB gun!" So I presumed he did this quite often.   As far as the Yeti in the Leningrad Region goes, that may be a taxicab driver that operates between St. Petersburg and Gatchina. I met him in 2001, and he fits the description given of the Yeti.

Playing Bigfoot makes a great practical joke.

Christopher, zoos are designed for entertainment, not to help animals. That is why we support those who are truly trying to care for such animals, such as this guy.

Great story. I would love to try the cross country skis with the horse hair bottoms. I read about that method many years ago when I got my first skis. You have to love the man with the bears. Most of the bears in the USA in captivity were orphans as well. People that don't like zoos forget that these animals would have died withour their mothers to teach them how to find food and protect them from predators.