{"id":237246,"date":"2025-10-19T22:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T22:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/237246\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T22:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T22:39:13","slug":"video-alaska-bear-gives-trash-can-cpr-in-desperate-attempt-to-open-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/237246\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Alaska bear gives trash can \u2018CPR\u2019 in desperate attempt to open it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"fxw_earth-space_article_main-content_article-body_2_1_url\" class=\"video-link\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/srs5r157isnnsn90.jpg\" alt=\"A bear in Valdez, Alaska, was spotted desperately trying to open a trash can in the middle of the road.\" width=\"992\" height=\"558\"\/><\/a>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"sub-text\">A bear in Valdez, Alaska, was spotted desperately trying to open a trash can in the middle of the road.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">VALDEZ, Alaska \u2013 A bear in <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fxw_earth-space_article_main-content_article-body_2_2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/local-weather\/alaska\/valdez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Valdez<\/a>, Alaska, was spotted taking a creative approach to try to open a trash can on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Footage of the <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fxw_earth-space_article_main-content_article-body_2_3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/animals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">animal<\/a> shows it using its front paws to repeatedly press down on a bear-proof trash can that had been knocked over on its side.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">In doing so, the bear scoots the trash can along the middle of a neighborhood road.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"668\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bear-ezgif.com-video-to-gif-converter.gif\" alt=\"Looped video of bear giving the trash can &quot;CPR.&quot;\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Looped video of bear giving the trash can &#8220;CPR.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sub-text\"> (\u00a0Justin Prax via Storyful \/ FOX Weather)<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Resident Justin Prax filmed the moment after letting his dog outside and then hearing her bark aggressively at something nearby.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">&#8220;I poked my head out to find a bear she&#8217;d spooked, and it ran across our yard and then attempted to break into our bear-proof trash in an act that looks like bear CPR,&#8221; Prax said to Storyful.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\"><a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fxw_earth-space_article_main-content_article-body_2_4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/how-to-watch-fox-weather-on-tv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HOW TO WATCH FOX WEATHER<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Bear-proof trashcans, such as the one in this video, are recommended for homes in parts of <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fxw_earth-space_article_main-content_article-body_2_5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/alaska\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Alaska<\/a> as some black bears have learned to eat garbage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bear in Valdez, Alaska, was spotted desperately trying to open a trash can in the middle of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-237246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}