Uh... was the bear trying to get the cat food or the CAT!
I kept opening and shutting the front door to scare him off and my cat was cornered behind some pots. He had the cat food bowl in his mouth and was backing out with it and dropped it and slowly walked off looking behind him at me as I banged some metal on the pet carrier to scare him. He returned in the middle of the night and shoved a heavy barracade aside that I put against the door and rooted through some things. Stomped a popcorn can like what they have at Christmas into a flat saucer. There was no popcorn in it so he was probably ticked. I had my security light on and it did not deter him at all. I am now keeping the cat food inside the house since he came the first time and pouring Pin Sol on the porch every night now and he has not returned.