Most of us have seen a bear along the road or behind a fence at a zoo, but the Schmidt family has a bear living a little too close to home, literally.
It was discovered on Thanksgiving as they were preparing to deep fry a turkey.
"I saw that big large area of claw marks and I called my wife and her sister out and we saw that area of paw prints, looking around I didn't see anything coming out from under the deck, paw prints in the snow, so we weren't sure if t was under there or not but then when my sister in law let out a shriek and said it's under there, we all went and looked between the boards and we saw it's face and its moving around under there," says Burt Schmidt.
A 200 pound black bear that is... and it looks like it's making a home underneath the deck for the winter.
He says, Surprised... I'd think I've ever heard of a bear under somebodys deck before, the proximity, it's two feet away from me right now."
He says he would like the bear to be relocated as soon as possible for not only the safety of this Wausau neighborhood, but his family too.
That's why he's placed calls to local law enforcement, the DNR, and Wildlife Services.
Schmidt says, "Not too concerned inside, knowing he is going to be more active at night, because it was that night before the snow, that he clawed his bedding underneath there."
But until it's relocated to a neighborhood in the woods, it doesn't look like the bear is going anywhere, anytime soon.
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Bear Under Deck
