Ann Bryant, executive director of the Bear League, said she had received calls from neighbors who had allegedly seen the woman tossing food into her yard and attracting animals.
A bear entered a woman's home in Lake Tahoe after she left her front door open when she walked away to dispose of her trash in a nearby dumpster. earlier this month after she walked out to a nearby dumpster to dispose of her trash, leaving the front door wide open, and came back to find the animal standing inside.
The incident occurred at a condo near the 3100 block of North Lake Tahoe Boulevard on June 16, according to a statement shared by the Placer County Sheriff’s Office last week. After the woman saw the bear, she ran through the front door to get to a phone and call 911. In the process, the startled animal bolted past her and fled outside to a tree in the front yard.
The woman’s face was scratched, either by the bear or in the subsequent fall. She was taken to a hospital and released a few hours later, but neighbors fear a similar incident could happen again. Ann Bryant, co-founder and executive director of the Bear League, a nonprofit that protects bears in the region, said she had received calls from nearby residents who were concerned about the woman. They claimed that she had previously left her doors open and had also been tossing food into her yard that was, in turn, attracting bears, coyotes, ravens and other animals to the area.Bryant believes the bear that entered the woman’s home was a one-year-old male weighing no more than 150 pounds.
“He was probably afraid because he had been caught in the house, and now there’s this person coming at him,” Bryant said. “She was blocking his way inadvertently. He got scared, tried to get past her, and she panicked.”
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