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Black bear strolls through yards, climbs tree in Charleswood on Saturday morning
Winnipeg Police Service spokesperson Const. Rob Carver said Manitoba Conservation has been notified about the animal and are on their way. In the meantime, officers will stay on scene and ask people to avoid the area.This black bear is spending its morning cruising through yards and climbing a tree in Charleswood. (Submitted by Tyler Walsh)An…
Winnipeg Police Service spokesperson Const. Rob Carver said Manitoba Conservation has been notified about the animal and are on their way. In the meantime, officers will stay on scene and ask people to avoid the area.
An adult black bear has been strolling through Charleswood Saturday morning.
Officers went to the south Winnipeg neighbourhood after police got a call about the animal from someone on Pepperloaf Crescent just before 10 a.m.
Winnipeg Police Service spokesperson Const. Rob Carver said Manitoba Conservation has been notified. Police will stay on scene and are asking people to avoid the area.
“It's dangerous. It's a full size bear, so we've got officers there for this reason,” Carver said.
A spokesperson for the province said conservation officers are in the area watching to see what the bear does.
“Every effort will be made to safely remove the animal to an undisclosed location,” the spokesperson said in an email.
Tyler Walsh said he and his wife saw the bear running down a path about 50 feet away from their house when they looked out the window on Saturday morning.
“We were just actually washing dishes,” he said. “It's kind of one of those moments where you're not quite sure whether that is reality or not, so you shake your head and close your eyes and look again.”
Well if Charleswood didn't seem cottage country enough, we now have bears. Meet Charlie The Bear. He's taken refuge on a street called Pepperloaf. #CharleswoodBear #CharlieTheBear pic.twitter.com/0GZWLsWy5m
Walsh said he started yelling that there was a bear outside, and his two sons ran out just after the bear had run across the street and out of view.
“We all hopped in the family vehicle and just sort of went to see if we could check it out again,” Walsh said, adding that a small crowd that had gathered around the bear after it climbed a tree.
“It was a real head shaker.”
Const. Carver said the bear has been roaming around yards in the neighbourhood.
“Currently, I believe it is in a yard. It looks relatively contained. But we want to make sure people are safe, so our officers are there trying to keep residents at a distance,” Carver said Saturday morning.
“We'll make sure everybody's safe, including the bear.”
Carver said as far as he knows, this is the first call of a bear in the city that Winnipeg police have received this spring.
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