[CTVNEWS.CA] A British Columbia mother says a black bear followed her two-and-a-half-year-old son up a staircase and through a patio doorway into their home on Saturday.Eleri Froude of Gibsons, B.C., says she first was alerted to the presence of the bear inside her home around 5:30 p.m. on Saturday when her son said, “Mom, look!”
“I thought, ‘Oh my God, what am I going to do now?’” she said. “That was when my friend turned around and said, ‘Get the kids and get them in the bedroom.’”
A photo released by B.C. Mounties shows an adult male bear gnawing at a home's door after being locked outside.
Froude locked herself and her children in a bedroom while the friend attempted to scare the bear away by yelling and banging pots. He also used a chair to push it back out the door it came in from.
Sunshine Coast RCMP say the friend was only able to shut the door after giving the intruder a punch in the nose. The friend then took some frightening photos of the snarling bear on the other side of the glass in the door.
RCMP say they tried to scare the bear away with an air horn and water bottles, but the bear soon returned to the house, “tried to open the door to the garage and chased a male down the street.”
Police say they consulted with a conservation officer before deciding that the up-to-250-pound (113 kilogram) bear should be killed.