When winter comes around, bears like to find a nice cozy place to hibernate until warmer weather returns. A Connecticut family was shocked when they discovered a black bear was sheltering underneath their back deck for the winter.
Vincent Dashukewich and his girlfriend were in the backyard of his parents’ Plainville, Connecticut, home when their dog started randomly barking at the deck. “My dog started growling that’s when my girlfriend got scared and ran to the house and I turned my head and saw the bear and we were staring right at each other, it’s pretty crazy,” Dashukewich said.
The couple contacted the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, which advised them to let the bear hibernate there for the winter. “They said to just leave him alone, let him be, as long as he’s not creating a disturbance or, you know, bothering anybody,” Dashukewich said.
While it may seem frightening to just leave a bear where it is, most of the time hibernating bears are rather harmless unless they are disturbed. Dashukewich has since embraced the bear, dubbing him Marty and creating a TikTok account to share more videos of the animal.
Source: https://www.tiktok.com/@marty.the.bear/video/7183741780792233262