I remember an old Magic the gathering card saying something along the lines of “the dogs of war are nothing compared to the cats.” but Bear trumps Cat in war methinks.
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I use the addon, and I have customized it heavily for Voytek.

While standing around, you will periodically see something like “Voytek lurches up and starts pawing through Windstar’s pack looking for a beer.”

One of my favorites is along the lines of “Voytek sniffs around, searching for a Nazi to kill.”

What you didn’t realise is, there are several ways that the most awesomest heroic bear of all time’s name gets spelled, and here on the BBB site, we use the most Americanised version, “Voytek”.

In fact, my Hunter Windstar, Beastmaster all the way, has as her main pet that is always out Arcturis the Spirit Beast bear, named Voyek.

For those who have no freaking idea what Savvy and I are talking about, I invite you to visit the following link and read all about Voytek/Wojtek the real life hero bear.

http://www.badassoftheweek.com/voytek.html

Priceless… :)

In relation to real bears being really awesome, I highly recommend reading about the mighty Wojtek. I searched BBB to see if you’d already mentioned him, not wanting to be redundant and all, and didn’t find a prior mention. He was adopted as a cub by what I believe was Polish tank unit who raised him on beer and cigarettes until he was old enough to help them fight the Nazi’s. He apparently liked to march on his hind legs with the fellas and was awarded medals for things like never dropping any of the shell boxes he’d shuttle around during fire fights.

For those troubled by the animal exploitation stuff there is a hilarious music video called “Bears don’t dig on Dancing” which explains how bear performances are unjust and go against the animals’ will as opposed to all the other things we make animals do that they really wanted to do like wear sweaters and be in sandwiches. It certainly wont change any minds but it may take the edge off?

And on the topic of possible animal cruelty, I can’t speak for all circuses, but at least one that a friend of mine is a part of takes better care of the animals than it does the people. It’s easier to keep the people working for money than it is to keep the animals healthy, well groomed, and happy enough to not become issues.