Our Big Bear Family
MANY parents struggle to maintain discipline in their home. But spare a thought for Jim and Susan Kowalczik whose main charge is a huge 1400lb Kodiak brown bear. The couple look after the 9ft giant at their orphanage where they have dedicated their lives to rescuing and releasing injured animals. They now care for 11 bears, including Kodiak brown bears, Syrian bears and black bears on their 100 acre estate in Otisville, New York. Most were rescued as cubs from breeding programs or nature reserves that closed down. What did you think of this couple and their bears? Please let us know in the comment section below and remember to share the video and sign up for our free newsletter!
February 20, 2017 @ 1:39 pm
Really wonderful! It’s lovely for us to be able to get such a close up of those amazing animals.
I wonder, do the hibernate in the winter?
I’ve lived in Alberta, Canada, one hour from the Rocky Mountains, for over twenty years and I STILL haven’t seem a bear! Nobody can believe it.
Keep up the loving work, you’re an amazing couple.
February 20, 2017 @ 11:46 am
WOW what a great video and a greatn couple. devoting your life to wild animals take energy tgime money and most of love for the wild. Congratulation.
We have bears in Canada…but I would not dare get as close as you do 🙂
February 15, 2017 @ 11:17 pm
Too Cool…I could see how you would fall in love with the bears…If they don’t eat you.
October 22, 2016 @ 2:13 am
That is so awesome!!
October 20, 2016 @ 11:44 pm
They are a wonderful couple and doing wonderful things for the bears. It is amaizng how tender the bears are with the couple.
October 20, 2016 @ 7:46 pm
A wonderful and a blessed couple. That is a huge bear
October 20, 2016 @ 4:48 pm
I watch and still wonder if the thought for release into the wild gradually would be more in the bear’s interest? Not intending at all to belittle this amazing and wonderfully caring and trusting couple. Wish I had such a couple in my extended family…
October 20, 2016 @ 3:54 pm
What wonderful people they are. The bears are very lucky to have them. God is looking after all of them.
October 20, 2016 @ 8:05 am
WOW WISH I HAD A FAMILY THAT LOVED ME LIKE THAT, GLAD GOD LOVES ME INSTEAD I CAN LIVE WITH THAT !!
February 20, 2017 @ 1:08 am
Ditto
March 10, 2017 @ 1:56 pm
Scarry, and loveable ,what a combo
October 20, 2016 @ 5:46 am
What a wonderful couple, I wish I belonged to them
October 20, 2016 @ 11:17 am
me also….