Boogie, a seven-year-old male bear, had spent his life in chains, enduring the brutality of bear-baiting. Laila, a four-year-old female, had known only fear and pain, trapped in a concrete cage beside him. Both bore the marks of years of abuse: fractured bones, mutilated teeth, and wounds from the relentless cruelty around them.
Boogie and Laila’s lives began not with warmth, but with cruelty. In Punjab, Pakistan, these two bears—Boogie, a seven-year-old male, and Laila, a four-year-old female—were subjected to unimaginable abuse from the very start. They were forced into the brutal world of bear-baiting, a cruel practice that pits animals against dogs for entertainment. Every day, their […]
