Edhat Staff
June 9, 2023, 3:40 am
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By an edhat reader
A local bear is captured on video digging through some trash and hopping gates in Montecito.
The video was posted on Instagram by @jimalzina and shows a black bear scaling an entrance gate after it looked liked eating some garbarge bin breakfast.
See the full video below:
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good video – thanks
Bear season is about a month away
Cool video but would be nice to know where about this was taken?? Cross street?
Thanks for the video ! …Agree w/Babycakes, Bears can become donut/sugar addicts just like people can and do. … “It is NEVER a good idea to feed wildlife”. It ALWAYS upsets the balance of nature …. and creates problems for humans and animals.
Sweet!
Where in montecito?
If there weren’t a video, I’d have blamed it on the raccoons! Wow. Thanks for posting. I guess the Wildlife people will try to relocate it now, which would be good for bear and people—not to mention Marborg 😀
Why would it be seen as necessary to remove it? Montecito was built in a kind of wilderness. When you moved in did you not consider you’d be sharing your neighborhood with wildlife? Live and let live and enjoy!
SFANDI. Thank you.
We had a different bear in our neighborhood a mile away, after many conversations with DFW, they will do nothing except tell you to yell at it
What would you expect them to do …shoot it? You live in a place of wild land. They live here too so just enjoy the fact that you live in such a place where nature thrives.
Unfortunately, there are people who continue to bait these bears just to get a photo or video. I do not believe this is the case with this particular bear. About two years ago my friends would put out boxes of donuts, cinnamon rolls, cheap wafer cookies, and cover the lot with peanut butter and honey. As sort of a joke for their house guests, they once put out a big box of those “bear claw” donuts with the sugar crumbles on top (I think Spudnuts puts apple filling in their bear claws). Disgusting to put out this kind of human “food” (garbage food in my opinion) in hopes of getting bears to visit. I believe they’ve stopped the practice as many of us scolded/shamed them into stopping. However, I think there are others who are doing the same. Once these bears get habituated to humans, it’s not long after that they have to be captured/moved or euthanized. How sad. Stop baiting and “donuting” the bears people!