Garages, service stations, private homes and gardens, as well as high-rise buildings and supermarkets – so looks like the village of Kamenka, which is just a few stops from the garden Dzerzhinsky. The businessman Anatoly Kozhanov, who is engaged in transportation on several routes Novosibirsk, here restoring old cars (he has dozens of them) and keeps bear Marusya. In the winter she sleeps in a cage, spends summer in the open area – “in the garden”.
From December to March, Marusya was in hibernation
“You’re lying, or what? – turns to her host, revealing a metal door. Oh, ice cream is a must. Yura! Go to the store, take three ice cream cones”, – command Kozhanov assistant.
Game wardens found the bear and took it to the zoo
While the assistant runs for ice cream, Marusya bring to the street. “She was found by the hunters on the field, seen a bear killed a bear crawl, it tells the story of the emergence of Marousi Kozhanov. – Then passed her to the zoo. And she had rickets, thought I would die. Then I agreed with the awl, an official paper written, and I have bought it. Raised here – vets direct was in shock, fattening. We talk, they come.”
Anatoly Kozhanov, Marusia come out of winter enclosure
Since the bear lives here, surprising and sometimes scaring others. And her boss in the “black list” of animal rights activists. “There are so many misfortunes was green, the horror, the honor, to the ridiculous, he says. – I say to each of my animal – a wolf, one a bear the second, even boars of state registration, veterinary. Every year we vaccinate them from rabies, worming, distemper”.
Yeah, except Marousi, Kozhanov there is another bear, badger. He brought the cub left without a mother, now little wolf, he lives with dogs.
Hunting is hobby of the entrepreneur since 1981
“Walking with Mary everywhere, nibbling grass. Where? Yes, everywhere around. How do you react? Who knows, call the police – explains the owner of the bear. – The lake free to go. Going, went. A lot of people, the beach is generally Packed the entire. Bathe, then buy it, it will swim. A quake, all went back. We have already worked out”.
The owner carries a bear in the front seat of my UAZ
Once it came to the Swedes, and then wrote to his friends that “they are bears like dogs on chains in each yard sitting”.
For several years Kozhanov managed to surprise not only the neighbours but also the police, when they put the bear in the front seat of his UAZ and went to town. “She’s with me on “the UAZ” rides. Sits right on the front. As the drivers? Yes, nothing is normal. Traffic police stopped one time. I drove away at “Severnaya” hotel, for stopping. He flies up, the door opens. He is poor there… – says Anatoly. – Then understood. He says: “it is Impossible”. Me: “Where in traffic regulations it is written that can not bear to carry in the front seat?”. Maybe they say it to fasten? So he’s in chains, bound. Well there’s laughter and sin.”
The office of Anatoly Kozhanov with stuffed animals
The owner of the bear invited the reporter to feed the bear some ice cream. Dipper, of course, gently took his trembling hands, and in this moment she even felt a little bit like a big dog with kind eyes. However, the prospects of this activity seems questionable correspondents, so iron bear did not.
Trophy skin
“All lupescu weighed, to pose in the beginning”, says her owner, stroking the glossy coat. He feeds her twice a day – eats Marusya about half a bucket of feed, including potatoes, oatmeal, bread.
Anatoly Kozhanov
In the room on the second floor near Kozhanov stuffed two bears, who also had once lived, and lies “trophy skin”. Hunting Kozhanov is a hobby that he enjoys more than 30 years. “I hunt everywhere. And Marusya in the woods go, I let her, she’ll run, comes back as around. Here, Kamenka”, – he explained.
Wild animals in the private sector always surprised and a little afraid of others. However, to Novosibirsk it is not unusual. In the city you can live in the neighborhood not only with bears but also with the lions that roar in the morning.
Bear Marussia in the paddock in the Dzerzhinsky district
