AIKEN, S.C. (WJBF) – The old saying goes, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure… but, it’s not a man that’s been treasure hunting in the Trolley Run Station subdivision.
Experts say June and July are peak mating season months for bears, causing them to travel out of their home territories.
Neighbors living near the woods in Trolley Run recently caught a black bear on their doorbell cameras rifling through their garbage cans.
“Oh my gosh, we got bear we got bear we got bear!” said David Mihoulides. “And looking through the videos, all of a sudden he was dumping over our trash can and dragging trash across the yard through the back yard here. Yeah, definitely our first experience with a bear.”
But, it’s not unbearable.
“We’re calling him Yogi, so you know what they say, once you name it it’s your pet. So, I guess it’s the neighborhood pet of Trolley Run,” Mihoulides said.
“I checked our cameras to see if Yogi had walked in our yard, and sure enough on our doorbell camera I caught him walking right across our front porch,” said Brian Maio.