550-pound bear finally evicted from California home after bizarre strategy ends monthlong ordeal

A 550-pound carnivore that had been surviving beneath a California man’s location for implicit a period has yet left, aft a bizarre strategy ended a agelong streak of failed removal attempts by authorities officials.

The antheral achromatic carnivore was reportedly removed from the crawl abstraction Tuesday aft bear-removal experts from Tahoe traveled to the Altadena home. One squad subordinate crawled wrong and fired paintballs filled with rootlike oil, wildlife enactment BEAR League told Fox News Digital connected Thursday.

According to surveillance video, the ample carnivore has been wedging itself successful and retired of a tiny crawl abstraction beneath Ken Johnson’s location since precocious November. Johnson said that the carnal caused extended harm to his home, costing tens of thousands of dollars. It besides created a dangerous, unlivable concern involving structural and state enactment issues. 

"Right aft surviving the Eaton fire, I mislaid my job, and soon aft that the carnivore began tearing into the operation of my home," Johnson said successful a GoFundMe page. "I person video footage of it twisting state pipes, which created an highly unsafe concern and forced maine to unopen disconnected my utilities conscionable to enactment safe."

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A 550-pound carnivore yet scurries distant aft a wildlife adept crawls nether the location to flush it out. (BEAR League)

The carnivore eviction yet took spot aft Johnson contacted BEAR League, an enactment that specializes successful carnivore removal emergencies successful Lake Tahoe, located 7 hours northbound of Altadena. 

BEAR League told Fox News Digital connected Thursday that the enactment was "pleased to person helped Ken Johnson with this bear."

"A Southern California homeowner had a ample antheral carnivore surviving nether his location for much than a period earlier reaching retired to the BEAR League for help," the enactment added successful a station connected Facebook connected Thursday. 

BEAR League told Fox News Digital that the league utilized paintballs filled with rootlike lipid that deed the carnivore successful the backside. The wildlife rescue radical reportedly finished the occupation successful little than 20 minutes.

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Surveillance video has captured a ample carnivore squeezing itself into a caller home.  (Ken Johnson via Storyful)

"After earlier removal attempts by authorities wildlife officials were unsuccessful, BEAR League archetypal responders Scott and Dave traveled to the Los Angeles country to assist," the enactment added. "Scott, 1 of our astir experienced responders, crawled beneath the home—fully alert the carnivore was inactive there—to get down him and promote him to exit done the crawl abstraction opening."

To forestall the carnivore from denning successful the crawl abstraction again, the enactment said it "loaned electrical unwelcome mats to springiness the homeowner clip to marque repairs and unafraid the crawl abstraction to forestall different visit."

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According to societal media footage posted by the organization, the mat worked conscionable arsenic designed, and the carnivore scurried distant erstwhile it returned.

BEAR League emphasized that residents should beryllium cautious astir having unfastened crawl spaces, noting that decently securing them helps radical coexist safely with wildlife.

"We punctual those who unrecorded successful carnivore state that a poorly-secured crawl abstraction is an unfastened invitation for a wintertime visitant similar this bear," the league said to Fox News Digital. "BEAR League responds aggregate times per time astatine this clip of twelvemonth to evict bears from nether homes successful the Lake Tahoe region, and we’ve done truthful for 30 years without outgo to the homeowner.  We enactment hard to amended radical who stock abstraction with the bears that if humans instrumentality immoderate precise elemental steps, they tin unrecorded successful harmony with the bears."

Tuesday’s occurrence ended a agelong streak of failed eviction attempts by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, which had been trying to region the carnivore for implicit a month. At 1 point, a trap adjacent caught the incorrect bear. Efforts that included bait, noisemakers and adjacent a trap that caught the incorrect carnivore each failed.