Jeff "the Bear Man" Watson and Project Grizzly

Hello, everyone!

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I watched 6 episodes of the documentary series "Project Grizzly" released by Animal Planet.
Jeff Watson decided to release two grizzly bears to freedom. They are brothers, they are 4 years old. We are shown how he takes them out to nature and accustoms them to fishing, to swimming in the river, to finding food in the forest. His goal is to send them to Canada or Alaska, for which all documents are collected.

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In the process, it turns out that not everything is going so smoothly in the training of Bob and Screech. Screech got used very quickly to the new conditions, he hunts well and is quick to learn. But Bob can't learn so quickly. He was used to being given food and does not understand why he should fish. And secondly, one of Bob's hind legs lacks 2 or 3 fingers. Therefore, he isn't as fast and agile as his brother. He gets tired very quickly and his leg starts to ache.

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Knowing about Bob's problem, Jeff has to make several difficult decisions.
In the process, we see how difficult it is for Jeff to part with the bears. They are like his own children. Even greater bitterness is brought to him by what happened in a couple of months. First, the bears did not depart from him a single step, they perceived him as a mother. Then they leave him further and further and no longer resort to his first call.

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In the first series of the show, we find out that Jeff Watson is not an ordinary man with two grizzlies in his backyard. He is known for his pet, star of films and TV series (for the most part, unknown) -Brody the Bear.

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Now Brody is 22 years old. And most of all, he and Jeff are known for such a trick when Jeff puts his face (or half-head) in the bear mouth:

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Project Grizzly ended in an open ending, I found Jeff's facebook, where he writes that until December he can not be divulged information, so I'll wait).
Jeff is a widower. His wife died in the hospital, she was picked up by the wrong treatment and she suffocated.
He has a daughter, a grandson and bears.