The only times Kvitka was ever allowed out of her cage at the “hunting station” in Terebovlya, Ukraine, where she lived was when she was used for an illegal practice called “bear baiting.”
Four Paws International, which negotiated for months with the owner of Kvitka to free her, obtained some footage of what this cruel practice looks like: Bears, weak from malnourishment, are chained to a post while hunting dogs circle them and “practice” on them. The bears have often had their claws painfully removed so the dogs can attack them without risk.