Strange Hairless Creature Keeps Freaking Everyone Out, Until Rescuers Realize What It Is

When I was a very little girl, one of the rhymes my grandmother would chant with me always made me giggle.

“Fuzzy Wuzzy wuz a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wuzn’t fuzzy. Wuz he?”

Something about all those z’s always had me rolling on the floor with laughter.

In those early days, I didn’t really think about poor pitiful Fuzzy Wuzzy who “wuzn’t fuzzy.” All animals who are supposed to be fuzzy always are…right?

Not necessarily.

People in Placer County, California were seriously freaked out when a hairless creature startled them by rooting around in their trash.

They immediately called a local rescue group who came on the double to find out exactly what the weird creature was.

At first glance, it didn’t look like anything anyone had ever seen before. In fact, it looked like something out of a cartoon, or a children’s book.

Finally, someone realized…it was a very young black bear. Except it wasn’t black because, it had absolutely no hair! Definitely not “fuzzy wuzzy.”

The rescue group wasn’t quite sure what to do with the poor baby, so they contacted the California Department of Fish & Wildlife.

The CDFW wasn’t quite sure what to do with it either, so they turned the case over to The Humane Society of the United States’ affiliate, The Fund for Animals Wildlife Center (FFAWC).

They sent someone to check out the baby and realized immediately that the bear was covered in mange.

Mange is a painful skin disease caused by mites that burrow into an animal’s skin. The mange had spread all over her body and resulted in complete hair loss.

Some hair loss is expected when an animal has mange, but it is rare to see an animal that is completely naked.

And everyone who was familiar with the symptoms of mange knew she had to be completely miserable!

On Christmas Eve, two compassionate volunteers from California Department of Fish and Wildlife drove the bear, which they named Eve, to the Wildlife Center in Ramona, which is outside San Diego.

“Though we told them we don’t name our patients, they had decided that she deserved a name and called her ‘Eve’– in honor of the holiday,” the Center wrote in a Facebook post on Tuesday.

“She was being given a special gift for Christmas. She would now have a warm, safe place to heal.”

FFAWC made the proper arrangements to create a sanctuary for the bear. With her extreme case of mange, they had to be careful what type of bedding and materials to use.

Once Eve arrived at FFAWC, she was put in her little sanctuary to recover.

She was such a sweetheart and was so plucky despite her condition, she quickly won the hearts of the volunteers!

The staff at FFAWC posted on her recovery:

“Each day she explores her room and begins selecting items to shred and drag into her igloo to build a nest for the night.

She’s quite diligent and it’s always interesting to see what she ends up with.”

The staff believes Eve will make a full recovery, which is great news, of course.

When Eve is completely healed and has grown back all her hair to keep her insulated from harsh temperatures, FFAWC will release her back into the wild.

Until she is released, she is enjoying her space and all the fresh fruit she wants, especially apples!

Watch in the video as she takes each apple back to her nest…

Thank you to all the volunteers that helped save and rehabilitate Eve.

Instead of being a “Care Bear” poor Eve has been a “Bare Bear” But, soon she will be all fuzzy wuzzy again thanks to you!

Source: The Animal Rescue Site