Barking dogs lead to discovery of wandering bear caught on camera in Princetown

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A still from Jason Yap's video

PRINCETOWN – Barking dogs early Wednesday morning led to resident discovering a bear had just passed by, caught on his home security camera.

Resident Jason Yap shared the video Thursday morning of the bear visiting his Rynex-Corners Road home.

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It wandered through, knocked over their empty trash can, then went on its way, Yap reported in The Rotterdam Spoon Facebook group.

“Our dogs started barking like crazy around 1:30am and we saw our flood light was on,” Yap told The Daily Gazette via Facebook Messenger later Thursday. “We looked out the window but it was already out of view. We checked our camera and saw the bear. First time we’ve ever seen one around our home.”

Watch the video here or on Facebook.

Note, Yap assures that the streaks across the camera are bugs, not snow, and the grass looks like it does due to the video recording mode, also not snow.