{"id":904422,"date":"2026-09-21T18:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T18:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/904422\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T18:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T18:58:11","slug":"video-2-bears-wander-into-hope-pharmacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/904422\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: 2 bears wander into Hope pharmacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              VIDEO: 2 bears wander into Hope pharmacy<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 8:20 am Monday, September 21, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Two bears, including a young cub, wandered into a Hope pharmacy Sunday afternoon (Sept. 20) and the event was caught on camera. <\/p>\n<p>A large bear was videoed walking on all fours up and down the aisles, and also resting its head on a pharmacy counter. <\/p>\n<p>A small cub scrambled behind the larger bear in the video, which was shared on local Facebook groups. <\/p>\n<p>There is audio of someone starting to place a call to 911, explaining there are two bears in the Hope Pharmasave, as the bears activate the doors to leave. <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Crazy video of mama bear and cub that walked into a Pharmasave store in Hope today. Apparently wandered in through automatic doors and looked around for a bit. (Video: Rob Eves via Facebook). <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CHWKcommunity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@CHWKcommunity<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XnfgM2IcK1\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/XnfgM2IcK1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Zillich (@TomZillich) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TomZillich\/status\/2101884891181039798?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 21, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Witnesses said both bears were tranquilized by a conservation officer after they left the Hope Pharmasave. RCMP also attended. <\/p>\n<p>There has been a flurry of bear activity and interactions in Hope recently, and videos have been posted showing a bear and a cub running along the side of Old Hope Princeton Highway, trying to find a break in the fence to escape into the woods. <\/p>\n<p>After those videos were posted, Lydia Koot from the Hope Black Bear Committee posted publicly that a young bear had been killed by a car. <\/p>\n<p>There have no been any injuries from bears reported to this media outlet. <\/p>\n<p>            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIDEO: 2 bears wander into Hope pharmacy Published 8:20 am Monday, September 21, 2026 Two bears, including a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-904422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904422","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=904422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}