{"id":24722,"date":"2019-06-03T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T19:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/james-tuthill-aspen-bear-was-not-killed-humanely\/"},"modified":"2019-06-03T13:44:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T19:44:00","slug":"james-tuthill-aspen-bear-was-not-killed-humanely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/james-tuthill-aspen-bear-was-not-killed-humanely\/","title":{"rendered":"James Tuthill: Aspen bear was not killed humanely"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"387\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/LettersWebCard-SDN.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/LettersWebCard-SDN.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/LettersWebCard-SDN-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Summit Daily News reported June 1 that \u201c<a id=\"N0x15f1640N0x1539220:N0x15f1640N0x1796370\" href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/suspect-bear-that-bit-hiker-on-trail-near-aspen-has-been-located-killed\/\">Aspen bear that bit hiker is killed<\/a>.\u201d&nbsp;This killing was cruel.&nbsp;First, this wasn\u2019t euthanasia as Colorado Parks and Wildlife officer Matt Yamashita describes.&nbsp;Euthanasia is generally defined as a death with minimal pain and suffering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Sadly, this bear did not die with minimal pain but suffered a horrible death.&nbsp;It was shot once and wounded, then hunted down for almost a mile in extreme fear by hound dogs, and then shot again and killed.&nbsp;Yamashita admits that they\u2019re not 100% sure they killed the right bear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Yes, we must protect humans from injury from wild animals,&nbsp;but there\u2019s a better way to do it than Parks and Wildlife\u2019s current cruel procedure. Parks and Wildlife needs to use tranquilizer shots to anesthetize an animal so it can be humanely killed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">James Tuthill<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Silverthorne&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/james-tuthill-aspen-bear-was-not-killed-humanely\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Summit Daily News reported June 1 that \u201cAspen bear that bit hiker is killed.\u201d&nbsp;This killing was cruel.&nbsp;First, this wasn\u2019t euthanasia as Colorado Parks and Wildlife officer Matt Yamashita describes.&nbsp;Euthanasia is generally defined as a death with minimal pain and suffering. Sadly, this bear did not die with minimal pain but suffered a horrible death.&nbsp;It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 11:33:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}