Brooke Baitinger

1 week ago | officer.com | Brooke Baitinger

Officers then chased the bear into a tree around 1 a.m., where officials with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources tranquilized and captured it. Wildlife officials held the bear overnight to assess its condition, then released it back into the mountains the next evening, a spokesperson told McClatchy News. Photos show the bear after it was captured, and a video shows its release back into the wild.

1 week ago | sacbee.com | Brooke Baitinger

A wild cat inside a home was unimpressed by an “outside the box” attempt to lure it back to the Colorado wilderness, video shows. The homeowner had left a door to her Ken Caryl home unlatched for her pet cat Meatball to let himself back inside after she went to bed.

2 weeks ago | sacbee.com | Brooke Baitinger

An elusive apex predator was recorded casually strolling among homes at dusk in a California neighborhood, police said. Two days later, there was another sighting in an industrial area and then in the town of Watsonville, police said in a May 22 post on Facebook. There’s no way to know whether it might have been the same creature in both sightings.

2 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Brooke Baitinger

A days-old fawn will have the chance to grow up thanks to an animal control officer’s “remarkable act of compassion” in Oklahoma. Phil Blair, the animal control supervisor with the city of Muskogee, “has long been a hero to the dogs and cats” of the city, officials said in a May 19 news release. But the call on that day was not your typical case of a lost pet or stray animal. “I received a call about a deer that had been struck by a car at Howard and 45th Street,” he said in the release.

2 weeks ago | mahoningmatters.com | Brooke Baitinger

A little bear got into a resident’s trash cans as they watched from inside their Colorado home, video shows. “Oh no,” they can be heard saying in the video as they film the bear scavenging through the garbage. The bear looks directly into the camera and then goes back to its hunt for food. “‘Oh no’ is right,” Colorado Parks and Wildlife said in a May 22 post on X, formerly known as Twitter. “This bear in Castle Rock is learning bad behaviors.