Bear Cub Strikes Again in Auburn, California
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: A bear cub has struck again in Auburn, California. He had been known for rummaging through garbage cans, but lately he's had a taste for chicken. Reporter Erin McCallister, of CNN Sacramento affiliate KOVR has the bear facts for us.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You saw him doing that?</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. Yesterday I caught him doing it. I caught him with the chicken in his mouth.</s>ERIN MCCALLISTER, REPORTER, KOVR (voice-over): Up until yesterday, Susan Sutherland was OK with the idea that a bear cub made its home in her back yard. She says it's not a scary bear, a clumsy one, maybe.</s>SUSAN SUTHERLAND, RESIDENT: He was kind of clumsy. Just kind of fell right out of the tree into the squashed plants.</s>MCCALLISTER: The bear has felt so at home, once it even tried to go inside the house.</s>SUTHERLAND: He just kind of walked in and my husband just shut the door on him.</s>MCCALLISTER: But now, as the two-year-old cub lounges on a tree limb in her yard, Susan is starting to see her furry visitor as more of a nuisance. For the last two days, the cub has broke through these boards and made meals of her chickens.</s>SUTHERLAND: This is just one of yesterday's. It's one a day -- 12:30. He's a lunchtime boy.</s>MCCALLISTER: So away the chickens go into a pickup and on their way to a new home; the home of Susan's very good friend.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, I'm here on a chicken mission -- yes.</s>MCCALLISTER (on camera): And chickens aren't the only animals missing from Susan's backyard. In this pond, there used to be six fish swimming around. Now there's only one. (voice-over): But it's hard to be angry at a bear.</s>SUTHERLAND: No, it's not his fault. He has to eat. It's an animal; that's what animals do. He hasn't harmed any -- he's not aggressive, he didn't attack anybody.</s>MCCALLISTER: Still, she says, she needs to make her home a little less comfy.</s>SUTHERLAND: They really want hummingbird feed. There's sugar in there. They really like hummingbird feed. This is a great tree to sit in for a bear. And when you're walking out this door, or even if it's opened, you're walking out. There's a bear sitting there looking at you.</s>MCCALLISTER: And she hopes soon no more chickens will mean no more bear.</s>SUTHERLAND: We're hoping. We're really hoping. You know, hopefully it will just go after the trash cans. And I've got one</s>MCCALLISTER: Erin McCallister, KOVR 13 News.