{"id":4684,"date":"2025-07-18T05:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T05:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/4684\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T05:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T05:31:11","slug":"bear-rings-doorbell-in-new-hampshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/4684\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear Rings Doorbell in New Hampshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A black bear visited New Hampton, a town in New Hampshire, and wanted to stay a while. (Maybe it was the hot tub that made it want to stay.) A Ring security camera caught the moment the bear accidentally rings the family\u2019s doorbell with its large, clawed paws and then sniffs around the porch. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least he was polite enough to ring the doorbell to see if we were home,\u201d wrote the homeowner, Jay Lievens, in a post to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/uLocalNH\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">u local New Hampshire<\/a> Facebook group.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/outdoors.com\/meanwhile-in-florida-doorbell-cam-catches-alligators-on-porch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u2018Meanwhile in Florida\u2019: Doorbell Cam Catches Alligators on Porch<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs this for real? I love it!! What a treasure,\u201d wrote one person in the comments section.<\/p>\n<p>Suzie Lievens then chimed in to respond, saying: \u201cVery real. We had a different bear visit the next day. The ring didn\u2019t catch him and I only got about 10 secs of blurry cell phone video (I was panicking a bit, lol).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turn your volume as you watch and listen to a black bear as it rings a doorbell here:<\/p>\n<p>Although behavior like this is funny and often cute, it\u2019s important not to attract bears to your home by leaving human food, pet food, or even bird seed outdoors in bear country. If this bear had found food, it would definitely become a repeat visitor. Bears habituated to humans and human food can become dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>Header stock image by Patricia Palardy\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A black bear visited New Hampton, a town in New Hampshire, and wanted to stay a while. (Maybe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[5486,49,48,5487,66,323,5488],"class_list":["post-4684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-black-bears","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-funny-video","tag-science","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}