A friendly black bear was euthanized after it came to love people who fed it and took selfies

CNN ^ | June 18, 2019 | Scottie Andrew and Brian Ries

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Wildlife officials say they were forced to euthanize a friendly young black bear after it grew too familiar with people who regularly fed and took selfies with it.

Since the beginning of June, Oregon police received regular calls about the bear, which was usually spotted near its favorite boat ramp at an Oregon park.

On Thursday, they found the animal surrounded by a pile of trail mix and sunflower seeds that appeared to have been left behind intentionally by some passersby. The police concluded the bear had grown too habituated to human interaction, and could pose a threat to people's safety, so they made the difficult decision to shoot and kill it.

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At this moment we have a PA Game Commission bear trap sitting out behind our shed. They trapped a male bear and took it away Saturday and brought the trap back on Monday. We hope they will catch more of the 8 or 9 black bears wandering around here. Yesterday on of the bears - 200+ lb damaged a peach tree here and we’ve had muddy black bear footprints on our basement and front doors. Summer people, idiots and tourists come here and feed the bears or don’t keep garbage where the bears aren’t attracted to it. Where are we? Smack dab in the middle of Pike County, north of I-84 - the county on the border with NY and NJ. So if you hunt, PA Game Commission hunting lands are just north and east of us.