Most kids will probably be happy with a teddy bear, but for footballer Kirill Kombarov, that wasn't going to be enough for his son, not by a long shot. 

The footballer, who plays in the Russian league for FC Torpedo Moscow, decided that he would get his two-year-old son a real live bear from a circus company to play with at the party, which is one of the worst ideas we've ever heard.

According to The Mirror, the bear is trained and has appeared in a number of films, but we still can't work out at what stage this seemed like it was not a terrible thing to do. 

Pic via The Mirror

He hasn't commented on the pictures, but he did take them down off his Instagram account. Not before they were screengrabbed, of course, and he has received a huge amount of criticism from people commenting that this was cruel treatment of the animal and downright dangerous. 

Via The Mirror. Main pic via Wikipedia