Ursa in Suburbia

British sporting values have received short shrift in the Baltic, where Lithuania's association of hunters and fishers has protested the government's termination order against a brown bear which wandered into Vilnius. Despite being only two years old the animal was apparently unable to orient itself by smartphone and lumbered harmlessly about the suburbs for a couple of days, whereupon the government issued a permit for it to be shot. This was far too distasteful a prospect for the squeamish shikari of Lithuania; on the animal-loving mainland, by contrast, where personal attendance at the demise of wild animals is considered unsporting, the sentence would obviously have been gassing or else dismemberment by a pack of hounds.