Black bear tries to get into condo through cat door

USA TODAY NETWORKKaitlin Riordan, KREM-TV, Spokane, Wash.12:56 p.m. EDT August 15, 2015

(Photo: Doug Harder)

 

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SCHWEITZER MOUNTAIN, Idaho – An Idaho man got the surprise of his life when a bear stuck its headthrough a cat door at this condo on Thursday night.

Doug Harder said this is not his first run in with a bear. He said a bear and two cubs climbed up the side of his condo onto his second floor deck at the end of May to eat birdseed.

The owner said the bear got in once while he was on vacation, and has tried to break in again multiple times. Doug Harder

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He got another surprise visit when he went on vacation last week. He returned to his home only to find a bear yearling had broken into his condo.

Harder said the bears broke in through a second story door, ate food and defecated on his carpet. In an effort to keep the bear away, Harder said he closed the door but the bear came back Thursday morning and Thursday night, and that's when he snapped the pictures of it poking its head through the cat door.

 Black bear tries to get into condo through cat door

To us  a black bear cub might  be fearsome  or frightful

but I doubt if they have such  knowledge themselves

and they probably think that they are as delightful

as any other playful kittens or elves.

And,   they probably also aren't sensitive or aware,

thankfully,  of  the color of their skin

or else, simply don't care 

but just want to know when they'll get their next din din din. 

And , whatever they use for a brain--

it's probably much smaller in size than boulders--

still, shouldn't it somehow  to them explain

that a small cat's door  fits a nose but not shoulders?

And if, despite its owner's care and fears,

they  do manage to break into a house like a vagrant 

why must  they leave behind  souvenirs

so messy  and overly fragrant ?

HZL

8/16/15