{"id":585748,"date":"2026-04-06T11:46:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/585748\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T11:46:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:46:19","slug":"bear-tries-to-make-off-with-entire-dumpster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/585748\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear Tries to Make Off With Entire Dumpster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An ambitious bear in Connecticut was spotted trying to make off with an entire dumpster on Tuesday, March 31.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Paul Quagliaroli took this footage of the mama bear with her cubs in Farmington. \u201cIt happened right outside my condo,\u201d he told Storyful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The adult bear is seen lifting the dumpster\u2019s lid and taking a look inside. She then pulls the huge trash container toward nearby woods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Connecticut\u2019s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.ct.gov\/deep\/news-releases\/news-releases---2026\/deep-reminds-residents-to-be-bear-aware-as-bears-increase-activity-in-the-spring\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:warned;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;warned&quot;}\" class=\"link \">warned<\/a> residents that bear activity increases in spring as the animals seek out food.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The department asked residents to store trash in secure, bear-resistant locations and avoid placing bins curbside the night before collection. Credit: Paul Quagliaroli via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An ambitious bear in Connecticut was spotted trying to make off with an entire dumpster on Tuesday, March&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[223737,49,48,4785,223736,66,323],"class_list":["post-585748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-bear-activity","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-connecticut","tag-paul-quagliaroli","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585748","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=585748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}