VIDEO: Bear rings doorbell of family's home while roaming around porch
Ringy the Pooh! Hilarious moment black bear rings the doorbell while roaming around family’s porch
- South Carolina resident Wendy Watson’s doorbell camera captured the footage
- The adult bear rang her home’s doorbell in the early hours of Tuesday morning
- ‘He looked around a little bit and went back down and while he was out here he ate a lot of bird seeds,’ she told KFVS 12
- The bear frequently visits Watson’s home and has destroyed bird feeders in the past
A black bear was caught on camera ringing the doorbell of a family’s home in South Carolina in the early hours of Tuesday morning, wondering if anyone was home.
Greenville County resident Wendy Watson said she nearly spat out her coffee after waking up and noticing footage recorded from her Remo+ video doorbell capturing the moment at around 3:30 am.
‘The bear kind of ambled up on the porch and was reaching up around the doorbell and there was a little nose print on the window that you can see,’ Watson told local outlet KFVS12.
‘He looked around a little bit and went back down and while he was out here he ate a lot of bird seeds,’ she added.
It’s not the first time the bear has been spotted around the house, according to the local resident.
Watson suggests the beast is a frequent visitor, as she has had to replace two of her garden’s bird feeders on previous occasions.
‘He took out a couple of our bird feeders, one I had just gotten for Mother’s Day with a camera inside it, though the camera was inside charging at the time,’ she told NBC affiliate WYFF.
‘No other damage was done,’ she added.
ANYONE HOME?: An adult black bear, estimated to be between two and four-years-old, rang the doorbell of South Carolina resident’s Wendy Watson’s home in the early hours of Tuesday morning
DISAPPOINTED: The black bear eventually left the home’s front porch after no one answered its call to be let in
President of the Wildlife of Rehab of Greenville, a non-profit organization focused on rehabilitating injured and abandoned wild animals, Watson says the bear is ‘fine’ and is always welcome at her 31-acre home despite causing damage in the past.
She has also decided to take down most of her bird feeders, except a small one, to avoid more bears coming to her home in the future.
Meanwhile, it is thought the black bear on camera is a young adult estimated to be between the ages of two and four, Greg Lucas – a Conservation Educator with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources – told KFVS12.
He also advised local residents to remove bird feeders and to seal their garbage if they want to avoid having bears in their yards.
An exterior view of Watson’s 31-acre home where the black bear is a frequent visitor but is always welcome she says
Bear sightings in South Carolina are common, as the state is home to 1,000 black bears, according to Mryle Beach Online.
More than two thirds of them, about 700, live in the western part of the Palmetto State, near the southern tip of the Appalachian Mountains.
Rangers advise people not to run from bears and instead make the animals aware of human presence by speaking in an assertive voice, singing or, clapping hands together.
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