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<\/p>\nBears might be something you would expect to see in northern Minnesota, but one was spotted again Wednesday in a Twin Cities backyard.<\/p>\n
WCCO spoke with handyman Lee Bottem, who was working at a home in the Concord neighborhood when he and the homeowner thought they saw a dog around 10 a.m.<\/p>\n
“The customer says, ‘Oh my gosh, somebody’s dog’s in our yard,’ and so I went to look and I just heard her yell, ‘Oh my gosh, it’s a bear!'” Bottem said. “It’s right off of the freeway, so there’s a lot of noise coming \u2026 the bear was kind of moving away from that, running through the yards.”<\/p>\n
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The city of Edina says it’s a black bear that’s around 2 to 3 years old. They think it’s hugging along the Minnehaha Creek, looking for its mom. They began getting reports of it last weekend<\/a>.<\/p>\n “The bear really had nowhere to go. It was all fences and treelined. Looked like it was trying to get out of there,” Bottem said.<\/p>\n When it comes to bears, Sergeant Anna Eckstein with the Edina Police Department says they’re more attracted to birdfeeders and trash cans.\u00a0<\/p>\n “The biggest thing we’re urging for residents to do is to remove potential food sources,” Eckstein said.<\/p>\n When it comes to your pets, just keep them supervised.\u00a0<\/p>\n “In Edina nothing like this really ever happens,” Bottem said. “WE have a cabin and I’ve never seen a bear up there and we always joke there’s got to be hundreds of bears up there, but the first bear I see is in Edina.”<\/p>\n The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources also asks anyone who spots a bear to report it on their website<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n More from CBS News\n <\/p>\n