A Facebook post says that a family found a black bear in the house they were staying in in Tennessee. The bear wasn’t looking for trouble, just breakfast.
She told WATE that Kiley Pickett-Suits and her family were coming from Alabama to see the football game between the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Tennessee Volunteers. They didn’t plan to get too close to a bear or fall in love with it.
In an Oct. 20 Facebook post, Pickett-Suits said her dog was growling as she and her family left the kitchen after breakfast. She checked on the dog again and saw the bear eating peanut butter from a jar in the kitchen.
She quickly decided to face the bear and scared it away.
“Kiley yelled “Get out!” at the bear as she ran at it waving her arms. Tracey Pickett wrote on Facebook, “Mama bear to mama bear.”
“I think I heard that if you see a bear, you shouldn’t run away, but should go up to it and act big,” Pickett-Suits told WATE.
The bear got in through a door left open to let out bacon smoke. Pickett-Suits said something about a Facebook post.
She said the bear took the peanut butter jar, a jelly spoon, the spoon that was in the peanut butter jar, and her child’s food.
It turned out that was not the first time the bear had been seen in the area, Pickett-Suits said.
“Everyone in the neighborhood, including my family, seems to love him or her,” she said.
What to do if you see a bear
Bearwise.org says that black bears don’t usually get mean when they see people.
The group says that if you see a bear, make sure it has a way to get away and stay away from it.
“If a black bear comes up to you, make yourself look big, clap your hands, and keep moving away,” said Jaime Sajecki, who is in charge of the black bear project at the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries.
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