The bears with me, of course, are Frank, Mikey, Josie, and Pookie, and of course all the pandas. I recently changed the name of my Substack to Friendly to Bears, just because. I recently wrote a new thing there, which I hope you’ll read.
There is no truth to the rumor that Frank and Mikey have taken control of the ‘toons and are compelling me to write ‘toons about them instead of pandas. We will prove this by sharing today’s ‘toon…um…what happened? Where are the pandas?

The story about Frank and Mikey’s mom came from the keeper talk about the grizzly bear brothers who live in San Diego. Their mom really did get arrested and she really did get a “job” test garbage cans. I hope she doesn’t get fired with all the firings in the park system as well as the rest of the government.
The story about Josie..well, you be the judge if this is true.
There was a story on Fezbok about a little bear that was rescued by cows, until the Appalachian Bear rescue found him. Was it really Josie? We’ll never tell!
Keep being the bear
Bob T is friendly to bears Panda
YES!!! The Cow story was absolutely true, and @appalachian bear rescue did rescue the little bear from getting frequent cow-tongue baths and nuzzles. Unfortunately, the cows couldn’t provide the nutritional support a little bear needs.
Bossie Josie received important life lessons from her adopted herd and no doubt they have served her very well in managing her dysfunctional brothers, son and adopted pandas.
Rumor has it, Josie still gets together with “the girls” from time to time. I wonder if we will see them on The Panda Chronicles.