Black bears take a drink from Florida woman’s pool

NAPLES, Fla., April 29 (UPI) — A Florida homeowner captured video of three bears breaking into the home’s pool cage to play by the pool and drink the water.

Judy Burris of the Golden Gate area of Naples shared a video showing the trio of young bears entering the pool area through a screen barrier they damaged on a previous visit and pausing from playing beside the pool to refresh themselves with a drink of pool water.

“They broke through the lanai screen a few weeks before and began making themselves at home!” Burris wrote in the video’s description. “Though they didn’t swim on this day you can see the dirt they tracked into the pool and also pulled out the light.”

Burris said the footage, which she captured in February, led her to install a motion alarm system.
“The Fish and Wildlife Service advice was to scare that bear,” she told WZVN-TV.

She shared a second video from about a week after the first video showing the three bears make a return trip and trigger the alarm. She said the device was successful.

“They clearly didn’t run in fear but the alarm made them uncomfortable and they didn’t want to stick around,” Burris said.