{"id":658893,"date":"2026-05-22T17:49:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/658893\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T17:49:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:49:16","slug":"watch-bear-wanders-onto-new-jersey-porch-rings-doorbell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/658893\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Bear wanders onto New Jersey porch, rings doorbell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 21 (UPI) &#8212; A New Jersey resident shared footage of a black bear wandering up to a doorbell camera and triggering the bell with its snout.<\/p>\n<p>Naomi Kuren&#8217;s doorbell camera at her home in Sparta, Sussex County, <a href=\"https:\/\/newjersey.news12.com\/2026\/05\/21\/caught-on-camera-bear-ding-dong-ditches-sparta-home\/1R0aS3zV31Wi8vCF63g3BY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">was recording when<\/a> a pair of bears visited her property earlier this month.\n<\/p>\n<p>The footage shows one of the bears walk up onto the porch and trigger the doorbell with its nose.<\/p>\n<p>The two bears eventually wandered off, without the door being answered.<\/p>\n<p>New Jersey Fish and Wildlife said black bear sightings <a href=\"https:\/\/dep.nj.gov\/njfw\/bears\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">have been reported<\/a> in all of the state&#8217;s 21 counties. Residents are urged to prevent encounters with the animals by securing food, trash and any odors that might entice them.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 21 (UPI) &#8212; A New Jersey resident shared footage of a black bear wandering up to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1147,2699,2697,79,2698,201],"class_list":["post-658893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-funny","tag-odd","tag-science","tag-weird","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658893","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=658893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}