The Bear Next Door April 20, 2008

This little black Himalayan bear, whose cage was next next to our caravan in Guernsey, belonged to the circus owners. He was a very charming little fellow, just a baby really, and he enjoyed our scraps and left overs.

But he really wasn’t in the best place to grow up - at the prospect of moving him into a larger cage, the owners decided to sell him instead. he became a popular attraction at Gerald Durrell’s Jersey Zoo, which was just opened in 1959, the year we were in the Channel Isles.