{"id":721432,"date":"2026-06-23T15:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/721432\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T15:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:52:12","slug":"connecticut-man-battles-bear-to-save-pet-goat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/721432\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut Man Battles Bear To Save Pet Goat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bodies Of Mother, Son Found In House\/ Officer Saved Newborn\u2019s Life\/ 1 Killed, 2 Injured In Stabbing: PD\/ $3.4M Lottery Winner Speaks Out\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/connecticut\/across-ct\/mass-layoffs-announced-after-loss-prominent-contract-ct-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&gt;&gt;&gt;Read More. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Officials said bears that enter homes in search of food often lose their natural fear of people and begin associating houses and neighborhoods with easy meals.<\/p>\n<p>DEEP does not relocate bears involved in conflicts with humans, saying doing so simply transfers the problem elsewhere and can create additional conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>Wildlife officials say increased bear activity is common this time of year as young bears continue to grow, yearlings establish their own territories and mating season gets underway.<\/p>\n<p> How To Avoid Bear Conflicts <\/p>\n<p>To reduce the likelihood of encounters, <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.ct.gov\/deep\/news-releases\/news-releases---2026\/deep-reminds-residents-to-be-bear-aware-as-bears-increase-activity-in-the-spring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">DEEP encourages<\/a> residents to remove food sources that attract bears, including bird feeders, garbage, pet food and uncleaned grills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bodies Of Mother, Son Found In House\/ Officer Saved Newborn\u2019s Life\/ 1 Killed, 2 Injured In Stabbing: PD\/&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-721432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721432","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=721432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}