{"id":549247,"date":"2026-03-20T15:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549247\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T15:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:32:15","slug":"how-did-a-bear-break-into-a-home-in-the-middle-of-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549247\/","title":{"rendered":"How Did A Bear Break Into A Home In The Middle Of The Night?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A California couple were in for quite a surprise when they woke up one morning recently. Someone, or some thing, had raided their kitchen while they were asleep.<\/p>\n

When they checked their home security camera footage, it turned out that a bear<\/a> had come into their home and helped itself to a little late-night snack.<\/p>\n

The couple was sleeping just one room over from the bear<\/a> in their Claremont home. Despite being so close, they said they didn\u2019t hear a peep.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t hear a thing,\u201d one of the homeowners, Anju Kapoor, told KTLA News<\/a>. \u201cWe were in the bedroom over there, and we didn\u2019t hear a thing. Otherwise, I\u2019m a light sleeper, and I wake up a lot at night.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bear climbed through a window after ripping open a screen<\/p>\n

The bear<\/a> took a variety of fruits, nuts, and meats from the kitchen and left a trail of pistachio shells. <\/p>\n

\u201cEverything was thrown around, and it was very unusual, of course, you don\u2019t see your kitchen like that,\u201d she told Fox 11 News<\/a>, adding, \u201cIt was kind of surreal, interesting to see a bear in my kitchen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kapoor first thought the intruder might be a couple of squirrels because she and her husband had seen two \u201clarge squirrels\u201d near their house just before the break-in. However, when she saw a torn screen on a window she had left open to vent out the kitchen after cooking, she decided to check her security cameras.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t scared, I\u2019m still not scared,\u201d Kapoor told KTLA News after finding \u201clots of mess\u201d in her kitchen.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I had walked in here and saw a bear, I would be very scared, but it didn\u2019t happen like that. So for me, it\u2019s still an interesting little story kind of thing,\u201d she told Fox 11 News.<\/p>\n

In 2025, an adult bear and a cub attempted to enter the house\u2019s crawl space but were unsuccessful. She thinks the cub may have been the one to return to the home that night.<\/p>\n

What should you do if a bear enters your home?<\/p>\n

When she contacted Animal Control and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, they told her to put rags soaked in ammonia around the entry points of her home.<\/p>\n

\u201cBears have noses that are 100 times more powerful than a human\u2019s, eight times more powerful than a bloodhound. They can smell something from five miles away,\u201d California Department of Fish and Wildlife spokesperson Cort Klopping said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmmonia is going to be a smell that bears do not like and, because their noses are so powerful, that really magnifies the unpleasant smell.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"iStockphoto A California couple were in for quite a surprise when they woke up one morning recently. Someone,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[2837,1442,49,3335,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-549247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-bears","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549247","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=549247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}