Caught on video: Bear climbs into Wisconsin home while family is sleeping

CRIVITZ, Wis. (WBAY/Grey Information) – A conservation warden needed to take away a bear from a cabin close to Crivitz, Wisconsin, after it climbed inside whereas the household slept.

The Division of Pure Assets warden, Tim Werner, by no means anticipated a viral video would make him a star bear wrangler, WBAY reported.

“Noticed the video, I used to be fairly stunned truly and acquired a very good chuckle out of it,” Werner stated.

Simply earlier than midnight on Sunday, Werner acquired a name a few bear that entered a trip residence close to Crivitz by way of a kitchen window. The intruder snuck in whereas a lot of the household was asleep.

“The bear was capable of truly punch by way of the display and got here in, ate some meals within the kitchen after which ended up working its means into the grasp toilet,” Werner stated.

Werner says the startled company from Illinois wakened, closed the toilet door, then ran out of the home and known as for assist.

“Our authentic plan was to really attempt to funnel this bear — open the toilet door, use some furnishings to funnel it to the entrance door and let it out that means. Sadly, the bear didn’t cooperate with us and didn’t need to come out of the toilet,” Werner stated.

Noticing the bear was only a juvenile and roughly 120 kilos, Werner figured he might use a catch pole.

It labored, however not earlier than a cussed, feisty wrestle that ended with the bear launched outdoors, unhurt. Video from Shane Gyger reveals the bear being unwillingly faraway from the house.

“I’ve handled wolves and bobcats and different animals which were caught in traps and helped launch these, however so far as releasing a bear from a home, this can be a first,” Werner stated.

Bear encounters are growing right now of 12 months as adults go in the hunt for a mate and cubs are despatched off to enterprise on their very own. The Wisconsin DNR estimated there have been 23,200 black bears within the state final fall.

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