While it may not be Halloween yet, Stacey Richason is dressing up in a bear suit — mask and all — for an important job.

"That is bear formula — milk," she said as she scoops it into a blender to make a breakfast smoothie for a bear cub. "(If) he doesn't want something or doesn't like it one day, like most kids, we just try again."

Richason is a wildlife care specialist at the San Diego Humane Society Ramona Wildlife Center, where she and a team care for an abandoned black bear cub who was 2 months old when he was found.

"Some hikers found him in Los Padres National Forest," said Angele Hernandez-Cusick, the wildlife supervisor at the center.

The cub was underweight and weak when he was found. Rangers there tried to find the cub's mother, but when she didn't return for the cub, he was .

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