Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies were called out to a Pasadena home just before noon Thursday on the report of three bears.
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Three black bears treated a suburban California neighborhood like a resort, taking a dip in a backyard pool and helping themselves to a dumpster buffet. Sheriff’s Lt. Randy Tuinstra told the Los Angeles Times that the wild bears wandered into a backyard, where they made a decision to go into a pool.
A pair of bears were on the loose Thursday in Pasadena, Calif., and they chose the wrong dumpster in the wrong backyard to go looking for food in all thanks to a very courageous dog. “The (mother) bear, she’ll stay up in the tree with her cubs, that’s her priority right now”. One of the neighborhood’s residents Danny Brimecombe said that he’d seen the bears in his pool earlier that day, but managed to get them to leave.
TV cameras captured two of the bears being chased out of the garbage bin by a dog.
Sheriff’s deputies tracked the bears’ movements as state Fish and Wildlife wardens headed to the area to corral the animals.
The bears broke a home’s back door, but never made entry, said Lt.
But he also said, “I just don’t like it when they start tearing stuff up, you know”.
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“Our plan is to wait until dark and try to get the bear into open space”, he said.
