It\u2019s been a beary tough stretch for this California homeowner. <\/p>\n
Sleep deprivation, strange smells, severe damage, and things that go bump in the night.\u00a0It\u2019s all part of what it\u2019s like to have a 550-pound bear living underneath your house.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a lot more stressful than I thought,\u201d Ken Johnson told The Post Thursday, 11 days after the burly bruin made itself at home in a crawl space beneath his Altadena abode.<\/p>\n
And the beast, nicknamed \u201cUnbearable\u201d by Johnson\u2019s friends, hasn\u2019t left since. <\/p>\n
\u201cUnbearable,\u201d is just one nickname. He\u2019s also been called Victor, Bruno, Barney and Volkswagen. Ken J Johnson Photography and Design<\/p>\n
Johnson stressed that he loves wildlife and it\u2019s been \u201ctough to hear\u201d the bear apparently struggling to make his way out. <\/p>\n
But the reality is the homeowner\u2019s days have been turned upside down. While he\u2019s working on the computer at his kitchen table, he can hear the bear pawing around under the house. <\/p>\n
Even worse, the sounds at night. \u201cI wake up, toss and turn and then I think I hear something, is he under my bed? Last night I didn\u2019t get much sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s messing stuff up under the house. That\u2019s\u00a0going to cost money,\u201d he noted. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m waiting for the other paw to drop,\u201d exclaimed Johnson. <\/p>\n
Ken Johnson has been living with a bear for almost two weeks. Photo Courtesy Ken J Johnson Photography and Design Ken J Johnson Photography and Design<\/p>\n
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has been trying to help Johnson remove the animal by setting up what\u2019s called a Cambrian Box Trap, filled with fried and rotisserie\u00a0chicken, apples, oranges, shrimp, sardines\u00a0and peanut butter.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are very effective,\u201d California Fish and Wildlife spokesman Cort Klopping told The Post. <\/p>\n
But the massive metal trap filled with the bear-necessities isn\u2019t exactly a delicacy for Johnson. <\/p>\n
A metal bear trap filled with chicken, sardines, shrimp and peanut butter in Ken\u2019s backyard. NY Post<\/p>\n
\u201cIt smells really bad. It\u2019s all good food but it\u2019s not something you would want to put all together. It makes me nauseous, it\u2019s so strong,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Johnson lives with his cat \u201cBoo,\u201d who\u2019s been investigating the new furry housemate. <\/p>\n
\u201cBoo\u201d the cat trying to get a glimpse of the 550 pound bear living beneath his home. Photo Courtesy of Ken J Johnson Photography and Design Ken J Johnson Photography and Design<\/p>\n
\u201cThe cat is able to smell the bear through the vents and hear it. He\u2019ll run and try to see what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since news of the Altadena bear broke, Johnson\u2019s been bombarded by camera crews, news helicopters, photographers and looky-loos all trying to get a glimpse of the animal. <\/p>\n
But all the attention seems to have spooked the bear.<\/p>\n
Johnson said he\u2019d like a return to peace and quiet and \u201cnot poking the bear anymore, so he can leave.\u201d<\/p>\n
He just wants a return to normalcy after a difficult year in which his home suffered smoke damage from the Altadena fires and lost clients for his photography business. <\/p>\n
And now the bear.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was interesting\u00a0having\u00a0him here but nothing seems to work,\u201d Johnson concluded. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a beary tough stretch for this California homeowner. Sleep deprivation, strange smells, severe damage, and things…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":442075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[10809,276,6335,11194,5248,159,67,132,68,1154,5609,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-442074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-bears","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-exclusive","11":"tag-homeowners","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-us-news","18":"tag-wildfires","19":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115705872579913973","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}