Black bear makes LA home his den, sleeps and poops around; couple names him
Representative image of black bear
A family in Los Angeles has an unwanted visitor who comes to their home every morning to sleep after a tiring night. Bob and Susan Nesler have a black bear living in the crawlspace of their home for two weeks now. They live in the San Gabriel Valley foothills and have even named the bear.
NBC, ABC and Northern News reported that the bear has been living in a hole he dug in the house's porch. The bear, named "Junior" by Bob and Susa, leaves every night to look for food and then returns in the morning. It goes into the space he has created for himself and naps away.
"Apparently he leaves to go out on the town in the evening, and then he comes back about 5:30 in the morning," Bob told ABC 7.
The couple says that he hasn't harmed them but they are looking at ways to get rid of him since he might prove to be a danger to someone else.
"That's his den right now. We gotta get him out of there because, you know, I think we'd be held responsible if anybody got hurt, but he hasn't bothered us in any way," he said.
They even have some pictures of him who has been snapped by a motion-activated camera installed by California Fish and Wildlife agents.
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Bob further said that they are not scared of "Junior" since bears are not dangerous unless you are a "trash can".
However, one thing that does bother them is the "piles of scat", or poop in common language, he leaves around the house.
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The couple say they are used to wildlife roaming in their area and have seen all sorts of animals. “We get bears, coyotes. I had a rabbit shoot through the yard, followed by a bobcat,” Susan told Northern News.
Bob understands that the bear just needed "a place to make into a den". “He’s just an old bear," he told Northern News.
A retired Hollywood animator who once worked on Yogi Bear, Bob is using the photos he has of Junior to create sketches of the bear, ABC 7 reported.
The couple is in no hurry to get him removed from their premises and doesn't want him to be harmed in any way while doing so.
Despite the name of the species, black bears can have brown and even blonde coats. Junior has a brown coat.