{"id":64983,"date":"2025-08-12T22:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T22:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/64983\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T22:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T22:00:14","slug":"five-pounds-of-fury-bear-gets-a-taste-of-pomeranian-power-in-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/64983\/","title":{"rendered":"Five pounds of fury! Bear gets a taste of \u2018Pomeranian power\u2019 in Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a turn of events that sounds like it\u2019s straight out of a cartoon, a pint-sized five-pound Pomeranian in Vancouver has become an unlikely hero after chasing a much larger black bear right out of its home.<\/p>\n<p>This astonishing encounter, captured on the owner\u2019s security camera, shows the feisty canine fearlessly confronting the bewildered intruder and defending its territory.<\/p>\n<p>The video was first shared by TikTok user Kayla Kleine and later reshared by journalist Colin Rugg on X.<\/p>\n<p>The video shows a black bear walking into the house through the patio door. It curiously sniffs around before Scout appears, barking and growling as he chases the bear out of the house.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NEW: Tiny Pomeranian chases down a black bear out of its home after the bear broke in and started wandering around.<\/p>\n<p>The 5 pound Pomeranian named \u2018Scout\u2019 was seen coming to the rescue to get the bear out of the home in Vancouver, Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had music playing (and) didn\u2019t hear\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MMokYDifmT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/MMokYDifmT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CollinRugg\/status\/1954225226679824845?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">August 9, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kleine revealed in another TikTok video\u00a0that the bear and its mom had visited the home multiple times before.<\/p>\n<p>The video garnered over four million views, winning plaudits for the tiny dog.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, netizens were quick to react.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLittle man syndrome finally paid off,\u201d a user wrote. \u201cThe bear will forever be ridiculed in the bear community for such an act of cowardice,\u201d another user commented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the little guy realises his power is not in his size but in his conviction and assertion. Well done little soul,\u201d a third user reacted. \u201cGlad the dog didn\u2019t get hurt but let\u2019s not pretend like of the bear wanted to,\u201d a fourth user said.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a turn of events that sounds like it\u2019s straight out of a cartoon, a pint-sized five-pound Pomeranian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[41548,41549,49,48,41550,41551,41552,41553,66,41554,41555,41556,41557,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-64983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animalheroics","9":"tag-bearvsdog","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-dogchasesbear","13":"tag-dogdefense","14":"tag-funnydog","15":"tag-pomeranianhero","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-securitycameravideo","18":"tag-tinydogbigcourage","19":"tag-vancouverdog","20":"tag-viralvideo","21":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64983","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=64983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}