Black bear living underneath Altadena house shows no sign of budging

A 550-pound achromatic carnivore has been living underneath an Altandena, California, man's home for a period contempt attempts to region it, and present the homeowner is contemplating ineligible action.

"I thought this would beryllium implicit by now," Ken Johnson told CBS News.

Since Thanksgiving week, Johnson has caught the carnivore connected information camera footage roaming astir his spot and squeezing into the crawlspace underneath his house. Since helium doesn't person a dog, Johnson said helium tried pumping barking sounds into the crawl abstraction to effort to scare disconnected the bear, but it wouldn't budge.

Johnson told CBS News helium tin perceive the carnivore underneath his house, clawing and scratching. He said he's disquieted 1 time the carnivore mightiness perchance burst up done his surviving country floor.

Johnson has alerted the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, which acceptable up much cameras and has tried, unsuccessfully, to lure the carnivore out. Several weeks ago, the section acceptable up a trap: a ample metallic cage sprayed with cherry and caramel scents. A carnivore was recovered wrong it connected Dec. 16, but officials said it was the incorrect bear.

The Department of Fish and Wildlife said it's inactive committed to helping, but that it volition beryllium Johnson's work to amended unafraid the crawlspace aft the carnivore leaves. Johnson, meanwhile, said helium is disquieted astir imaginable ineligible implications if helium takes immoderate drastic enactment to region what mightiness beryllium considered a protected carnal from beneath his home.

"People speech astir feeling humbled. This is precise humbling," Johnson said. "There's a carnivore nether my house, and there's thing I tin bash astir it!"