A house owner in Chevy Chase, Maryland, said he almost animal a bear he misinterpreted for a dog in his yard Wednesday night.
The house owner, who did not wish to be determined, said he heard a sound in his yard in the location of Woodlawn Road and Spring Valley Road and believed it was his next-door neighbor’s dog. When he went outside to examine, he got within inches of the animal and almost animal it prior to understanding it was a bear, he said.
He then ran back within and called cops.
The home isn’t far from where a black bear was identified in a Kensington area both Monday and Tuesday.
Surveillance video reveals the bear searching through wastebasket and delighting in trash Monday night on Dewmar Lane. Then, citizens identified the bear once again Tuesday on Culver Street.
The location is just a few blocks from the Beltway.
“I didn’t even stroll my dog last night. I wasn’t going to go do that and I might refrain from doing it this evening either up until there is some resolution,” homeowner Ian Velinsky said.
Velinsky resides on Culver Street, where the bear was identified in a lawn at some point after 8 p.m.
Messages and cautions about the bear flooded the area listserve.
“I was practically to step outdoors and I check out the text that said, ‘There’s a bear on your front lawn.’ So I stopped, I returned within and after that all, you understand, we went bananas since we have a great deal of animals and we wished to make certain everybody was within and represented,” said homeowner Andrea Heyl.
Heyl teaches at neighboring Holy Redeemer Elementary School, where she said her trainees were on bear watch Wednesday.
“It’s a quite huge bear and I don’t desire it returning,” Heyl said.
“A black bear is a hazardous animal there is no factor a black bear must be here. The county should be doing something to catch said black bear and launching it in north Montgomery County, up county, right? They’re fine with bears right? They have land,” Velinsky said.
Brian Eyler with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources said it’s unexpected, however not uncommon, to have a bear come that near the Beltway. Eyler said the bear was likely following a body of water like Rock Creek and just strolled throughout Beach Drive and up onto Culver Street.
Residents living along Beach Drive must generate their bird feeders and any outdoors food to keep bears away, Eyler said.
