Digging A Pit

Sarah, Tim, and I spent a day digging a bear pit. There are three sun bears here, Kevin, who’s in a cage by himself, and Hilda and Dessie, who share a cage. Sun bears love to dig in the wild, the rip up logs and dig up stuff in the mud and dirt. Kevin already has a digging pit cage but the girls did not. We spent a couple of days taking apart and moving a section of their cage and then digging a big hole that we could lower the cage into and then fill with dirt. This was some manual labor at its best. The pit was about 4 feet deep and 6 feet by 6 feet wide. We then flipped the cage into the pit and filled it with logs, dirt, and peanuts. We let the girl bears in and boy did they just love it! They spend most of every day in there digging away.