The baby cubs aren't dead, you can see them playing/huddling in the ninth panel.
Only the mother is killed
Oh oops, only now do I realize that that panel was a flashback lol.
Still I don't think the cubs are dead. :p
The old hunter's Tame one, feed him with his siblings to increase happiness case...
Manbearpig
Now the baby cubs are dead? How much darker can this get?