Bear Growing Up Part 2

Bear remembers the first time he met humans when he was still living in the woods with mamma bear and brother. Bear and brother used to play in the woods all day long -- wrestling, climbing trees (bear is too big to climb most tress now, like humans are), marking territory, eating berries, fishing, napping, clawing trees -- all the fun bear things.

Soon bear and brother were big enough for mamma to let us explore on our own. One day we met some other bears who were a bit older. They took Bear and brother to the part of the woods where mamma had told us not to visit. It was where the humans come to spend a night in the woods in funny little mini houses they put up in the woods. Bear knows that those are tents now. Moose loves the tents. Bears had to be careful cause the humans cleared all the trees in some parts and moved around in huge fast boxes together. Bears can be hurt if the boxes hit them. Now Bear knows that the boxes are called cars and Bear can drive in one with the car card that the humans gave him.

The humans would make their food warm with fire before they eat it, and it would make smells that make bears stop thinking. But the older bears showed Bear and brother that the humans will shoot us if we try to eat their food while they were eating. So we learned to wait till they were napping and would take their food then. Sometimes the humans would hang their food up high, or put it in boxes that are hard to open without opposable thumbs, but Bear could climb and break, so we would eat the funnest foods that Bear and brother had never smelled before.

The older bears showed Bear and brother that the humans drank thinks other than the river. Bear thought this was strange at first, but the food on the fire and the moving boxes and little houses and only living in the woods for a night was strange too and the humans seemed to like it all, so Bear let it go. The humans would put their special drinks in a special box that was the hardest to open, but after a while we could break the box. The drinks were in special cans and glass and the other bears called it beers. Bears could only drink the ones in cans, cause we would just break the bottles and spill the drinks

Bear and brother drank some beers with the other bears. Then Bear felt funny and spinny and fell over. Then the food Bear had eaten came out again. Then Bear ate it again. Then Bear had a nap. Bear had a hurt on his head when he woke up. Bear liked the beers.

Mamma wasn't very happy with brother and Bear when the other mamma bears told her about drinking the humans beers, but it was fun for Bear and brother so we would sneak to the place where the humans lived in the woods for a night and wait for them to nap so we could get foods and beers. It was fun.