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COTTAGE GROVE, Minn. (FOX 9) – A black bear was spotted roaming around in a Cottage Grove neighborhood<\/a> on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n Black bear sighting in Cottage Grove <\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n The Cottage Grove Public Safety Department said it received a couple of reports about a black bear sighting in the 9400 block of Jeffery Avenue on Friday, according to a social media post.\u00a0<\/p>\n Officials posted a photo of a bear on Facebook telling residents not to approach or interact with the animal if it’s spotted.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Bears typically move along on their own, and we expect it will return to a more natural area soon,” said Cottage Grove Public Safety in the post.\u00a0<\/p>\n Authorities are also asking neighbors to keep a close eye on children and pets until the bear leaves the area.<\/p>\n Safety around bears\u00a0 <\/p>\n What you can do:<\/p>\n The Minnesota DNR says black bears are rarely aggressive and attacks are uncommon, but residents should still take precautions.<\/p>\n Officials say to never approach or feed bears, and secure your garbage, bird feeders and grills. If you do come upon a bear in the woods, never run away, just slowly back up and wait for the bear to leave. Residents should also keep children close and pets leashed.\u00a0<\/p>\n You can also report the sighting to the\u00a0Minnesota DNR<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Source: This story uses information from the Cottage Grove Public Safety Department and the Minnesota DNR website.\u00a0<\/p>\n Cottage Grove<\/a>Pets and Animals<\/a>Wild Nature<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COTTAGE GROVE, Minn. (FOX 9) – A black bear was spotted roaming around in a Cottage Grove neighborhood…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[262811,33320,3,74050,79,25,9564,5138,201],"class_list":["post-604254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-cottage-grove","tag-mn","tag-news","tag-pets-animals","tag-science","tag-us","tag-washington-county","tag-wild-nature","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604254","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=604254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}