FOXSYLVANIA

– – You’re probably well aware that Bob Barker hosted The Price is Right game show for many years, and is a long time animal rights activist as well, having ended his shows with an admonition to “get your pets spayed or neutered.” The Robot Chicken show on Adult Swim did a cute bit with Barker going about following his retirement, and personally carrying out this mission, even using hedge clippers!  <shudders>

But did you know that Barker was part Native American, and grew up on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota?  Well, Barker recently made a personal appeal to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina to stop exhibiting bears in pit-like enclosures at three local zoos.  Barker called the bears’ conditions inhumane and asked that they be turned over to a sanctuary in California…