Now they will enjoy their days.

A Syrian brown bear looks out of a cage in Tyre, Lebanon. (AP/Bilal Hussein)
Veterinarians shot this bear with a dart. It had medicine to make the bear go to sleep. Then they could make sure it was healthy. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Veterinarians and helpers check the bear. (AP/Bilal Hussein)
People carry the sleeping bear at the zoo. It flew to the United States later! (AP/Bilal Hussein)
Now the bears live in a park in Colorado. They can leave their cages whenever they want. (Wild Animal Sanctuary)

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Homer and Ulysses [yoo-liss-ees] are Syrian [si-ree-en] brown bears. They lived in Lebanon. Home was a small steel cage.

Now they roam a huge wildlife park in Colorado. They are free.

Read More: Syrian bears are the smallest bears of their kind. They can be found in some Middle Eastern countries and Russia. They are the only bears known to have white claws. These two bears lived in cages for 10 years. They were moved to the Wild Animal Sanctuary in July. Now they are free to act like the wild bears they are. The bears were not treated well in Lebanon. But people worked to fix that. Proverbs 12:10 reminds us, “Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.”