A black bear cub in search of the bear necessities wandered into an Alaskan grocery store last week, giving shoppers quite a scare.
Two Wildlife Troopers and Petersburg Police Department were called to the Trading Union IGA on Mitkof Island to corral the animal Tuesday, according to Alaska’s News Source.
Wild footage showed officials cornering the scampering cub behind a stack of grocery carts in the produce section before walking him out to a trooper vehicle with a humane steel catch pole.
Alaska State Troopers Public Information Officer Justin Freeman was then tasked with being the bearer of bad news about the “abandoned” animal to reporters.
“In coordination with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, we euthanized the bear for a variety of factors,” Freeman reportedly said.
Lock up all the honey! A black bear cub was spotted shopping for groceries in Petersburg, Alaska.Petersburg Police Department
Officials were able to corral the animal without incident, but later said they were forced to euthanize it. Petersburg Police Department
The trooper added that the bear was too “emaciated” to survive the winter in the wild and said “no known [animal care] facilities had a placement for a black bear.”
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