Quick thinking saves injured cub
Game warden Kyle Isherwood holds an injured bear that was recently found in the yard of a Dover home. The cub has been sent to a rehab facility. Mark Sprague
DOVER - Over the past few weeks, Mark Sprague saw a sow and her cubs pass through his land in West Dover with some frequency. Often, they’d stop to eat grass. Then, on Wednesday, May 12, one of the cubs was left behind.
“All of a sudden the little one is on the lawn without the mom and other cub,” says Sprague. “The mom had basically said to the cub, ‘Stay here, and I’ll come back,’ but she wasn’t coming back.”
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