{"id":1542142,"date":"2022-07-06T19:49:54","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T23:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1542142"},"modified":"2022-07-06T19:50:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T23:50:12","slug":"watch-cowboys-linebacker-feeds-fish-to-wild-bear-during-fishing-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-cowboys-linebacker-feeds-fish-to-wild-bear-during-fishing-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Cowboys Linebacker Feeds Fish To Wild Bear During Fishing Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-cowboys-linebacker-feeds-fish-to-wild-bear-during-fishing-trip%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1542142&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Dallas Cowboys linebacker Leighton Vander Esch paused for a moment to feed the bears while on a recent fishing trip with family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>Vander Esch, 26, who went to the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/dallas-cowboys-players-must-stand-anthem-owner-joseph-curl\/\">Cowboys<\/a> as a first-round draft pick in 2018, was spending some time with family and friends over the 4th of July holiday \u2014 and while out fishing, he took a moment to offer a fish to a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/happy-valentines-day-wildlife-center-will-put-your-joseph-curl\/\">wild bear<\/a> that was standing in the water nearby \u2014 and he captured the entire exchange in an Instagram video.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p>The video showed Vander Esch grabbing a fish by the jaw and holding it out, tail first, toward the approaching bear. The bear, rising to its hind legs, slowly inched closer and closer to the pro-footballer, using a nearby rock for balance. Once it was able to reach, the bear gently took the fish in its teeth and turned away, apparently preferring to eat the gifted meal in private.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefinitely a couple firsts this weekend. Not often you get to feed a wild bear and get a picture with two sturgeon in the same frame. Amazing weekend with family making memories that will last a lifetime! Thank you @killgoreadventures for an awesome trip,\u201d Vander Esch captioned the snap.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDUDE,\u201d teammate Dalton Schultz replied.<\/p>\n<p>Miami Dolphins cornerback Byron Jones added, \u201cYeah, that\u2019s wild.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s outstanding brother! Making memories!\u201d rodeo athlete Tyson Durfey commented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Dog] is one with nature!\u201d Cowboys cornerback Donovan Olumba replied.<\/p>\n<p>Several people attempted to rain on Vander Esch\u2019s parade, however, accusing him of putting the bear in danger. They explained that feeding them in the wild like that could teach the bears to depend on humans for food. They also said that it could teach bears to trust humans \u2014 and that could put them at risk in the future, especially if any future interactions between the bear and humans might potentially include humans who were interested in big-game hunting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas Cowboys linebacker Leighton Vander Esch paused for a moment to feed the bears while on a recent fishing trip with family and friends. Vander Esch, 26, who went to the Cowboys as a first-round draft pick in 2018, was spending some time with family and friends over the 4th of July holiday \u2014 and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1542163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1542142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1542142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1542163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1542142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1542142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1542142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}