Family Hears 'Huffing And Moaning,' Discovers Huge Bear Under Deck
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The 400-pound animal was safely relocated from the Colorado neighborhood — but it wasn't easy.
A Colorado family trying to enjoy their deck last month found that a bear had the same idea.
The family went to sit on the back deck in Pagosa Springs but “soon heard loud huffing and moaning underneath their feet,” Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s Southwest Region division said Tuesday on social media.
The human residents called wildlife officials, who showed up and discovered a “very large bear.”
The black bear was a male believed to be older than 10 and estimated to weigh around 400 pounds. (Black bears, like this one, can be brown in color.) Wildlife officers thought the bear was one that had been spotted in the area for several years and had a “reputation for getting into non-natural food sources.”
They decided to tranquilize and relocate the bear from the neighborhood. However, once it was sedated, moving the massive animal from under the deck for transport proved a challenge that needed “the assistance of several bystanders,” the agency wrote.