The frightened cub’s paws were so badly burned that he tried to hobble away from his rescuers by walking on his elbows. Rescuers from Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care arrived within an hour and found the cub had crawled beneath the deck. The baby bear was “not [in] terribly bad condition, but dehydrated, so he must have gotten burned early on in the fire,” Curtis said. Tamarack is receiving grafts of tilapia skin to help his burned paws heal, said Jenny Curtis, an animal care manager at Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care. (Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care)The Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care workers cleaned and bandaged the cub’s wounds, wrapping his burned paws in gel and providing pain medication.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 27, 2021 20:03 UTC