{"id":13754,"date":"2025-06-17T08:10:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T13:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/?p=13754"},"modified":"2025-06-04T12:26:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T17:26:48","slug":"american-black-bear-battles-skin-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/american-black-bear-battles-skin-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"American Black Bear Battles Skin Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13756\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13756\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13756\" src=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/black-bear-px-250617-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"American black bear standing on grass beside a tree\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/black-bear-px-250617-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/black-bear-px-250617-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/black-bear-px-250617-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/black-bear-px-250617.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13756\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is a representative black bear, not the one from this article. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/black-bear-animal-black-canim-lake-50293\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ArtTower\/Pixabay<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>The following story about an American black bear was shared with us by <a href=\"https:\/\/goldcountrywildliferescue.org\/\">Gold Country Wildlife Rescue<\/a> in California.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This 7- to 8-month-old American black bear was brought into our center on December 11, 2024, from Coloma, California. He was found severely emaciated and suffering from what appeared to be an awful skin infection.<\/p>\n<p>We quickly started treatment and began supplementing him using <a href=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/emeraid-carnivore\/\">EmerAid IC Carnivore<\/a> three times a day. It actually ended up being his favorite food!<\/p>\n<p>After weeks of intensive treatment, he remains in our care. We are hopeful. He came in a little under 20 pounds and now weighs well over 50 pounds in just a few short weeks!<\/p>\n<p>We are so happy to be able to help him with the support of EmerAid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young bear suffering from emaciation and infection gets help from Gold Country Wildlife Rescue to recover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":13756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>American Black Bear Battles Skin Infection - 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