Unfortunately, there are a lot of animal welfare problems for captive brown bears in Europe and Asiatic black bears (and sun bears) in Vietnam. Brown bears are kept as pets by private households, or as attraction close to restaurants or other public places. Furthermore, they are still being abused for circuses and shows or as baiting objects. In Vietnam and other Asian countries mainly Asiatic black bears are kept on so called bile bear farms and exploited for their bile. The bears spend years in cages hardly bigger than their bodies with mesh floors, while they suffer from painful health problems as a result from the bile extraction.