{"id":177504,"date":"2025-06-12T04:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T04:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/177504\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T04:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T04:50:08","slug":"watch-bear-trapped-using-doughnuts-after-a-soak-in-hot-tub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/177504\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Bear trapped using doughnuts after a soak in hot tub"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>June 11 (UPI) &#8212; A Florida bear seen enjoying a resident&#8217;s hot tub and taking a long backyard nap was later captured and relocated with the help of doughnuts.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gulfcoastnewsnow.com\/article\/black-bear-punta-gorda-florida\/65013909\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said the bear<\/a> was spotted in a Punta Gorda neighborhood on Sunday.\n<\/p>\n<p>The bruin was caught on camera taking a soak in a resident&#8217;s hot tub before removing the cushions from an outdoor couch and taking a six hour nap in the backyard.<\/p>\n<p>FWC personnel used hazing techniques to encourage the bear to leave the property, and it ended up scaling a tree in a nearby vacant lot.<\/p>\n<p>The bear descended from the tree Monday and was ensnared in a trap <a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/local\/florida\/black-bear-wandering-punta-gorda-caught-with-doughnuts-fwc-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">baited with doughnuts<\/a>, the FWC said.<\/p>\n<p>Wildlife officers said the bear was relocated to a state park near Punta Gorda.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 11 (UPI) &#8212; A Florida bear seen enjoying a resident&#8217;s hot tub and taking a long backyard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[933,46356,46355,70,16,15,1544,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-177504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-funny","10":"tag-odd","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-weird","15":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114668596325297261","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}