UPDATE: The bear turned out to be sick, the girl mentioned, so Colorado Parks and Wildlife euthanized it. The unique story continues beneath.
DENVER (KDVR) — A girl mentioned a reside bear turned one other Halloween ornament at her house in Steamboat Springs Saturday afternoon.
She mentioned the bear was taking a day nap within the entrance yard when the householders got here house.
“We honked and yelled and it didn’t matter. He isn’t shifting quick,” Shannon Lukens informed FOX31.
Lukens mentioned the bear was performing lackadaisical and groggy, so that they left him alone to get some shuteye.
“He’s napping in conjunction with the home proper now,” Lukens informed FOX31 in an e mail Saturday afternoon. “We’ll simply let him have his nap and hopefully, he’ll discover a higher place to hibernate, quickly.”
The bear turned out to be sick, the girl mentioned, so Colorado Parks and Wildlife euthanized it.
Be ‘bear conscious’
Maintain bears out of the home with CPW’s bear-proofing ideas:
- Shut and lock doorways and home windows
- Bearproof trash cans
- Guard home windows with bars
- Maintain storage doorways closed
- Have an “unwelcome” mat
- Maintain automobile doorways and home windows closed and locked
- Take away tree limbs close to decks and home windows
- Set up spherical door handles
- Play speak radio while you depart house to deter bears
CPW mentioned storing meals, pet food or hen feed within the storage also can entice bears. It additionally mentioned something with an odor in automobiles or garages can entice bears, together with (however not restricted to) scented candles, air fresheners, soaps, lotions and lip balms.
If a bear comes close to your private home, CPW mentioned you may scare it away with a agency yell and loud noises like clapping fingers, banging pots and pans or air horns. If a bear enters your private home, be sure that it could actually get out the identical means it bought in.
If the bear received’t depart, name your native CPW workplace or, if it presents an instantaneous menace, name 911.
