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Viral video exposes B.C. bear turning family deck into winter bunkhouse

TikTok video has more than 4 million views after Cowichan family learns to listen to their dog

A few months ago it was a bear in a Lake Cowichan convenience store selecting some gummy bears for a snack.

Now it seems there’s another bear making use of human property in the Cowichan region, this time a black bear sleeping under the Weaver family’s deck.

Crystal Weaver lives along the Cowichan River, a place well-known as a high traffic wildlife thoroughfare, but she never expected to find a bear snoozing under her porch.

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Sarah Simpson

About the Author: Sarah Simpson

I started my time with Black Press Media as an intern, before joining the Citizen in the summer of 2004.
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