Bear Treats Couple's Rental In Glendale Like Home Away From Home

GLENDALE (CBSLA.com) — When Amy Butler and her two kids moved from Utah to Glendale for the summer while her husband completed an engineering internship, she expected a change of scenery - but never a view like this.

For the past two weeks, a bear has treated the couple's rental like her home away from home: drinking out of the pool, sticking her paw through the fence to pluck berries off a bush, walking up and down the patio, right through the toys the Butler kids play on.

But Butler says the bear has overstayed her welcome, and she's now afraid to play with her kids in the backyard.

"It's unnerving," she says. "We've almost ran into it on our driveway just walking down."

The Butlers say the bear wakes them up like clockwork at 6 a.m. four days a week. That's because the homeowner stores their trash cans right outside the window of the room they rent.

Evelyn Collister, the homeowner, says she has tried everything to keep the bear at bay.

"We've tried to put something heavier on the [trash] lid, and Clorox in the can," said Collister, who has lived in the area for more than 40 years.

This, however, is only the second bear she has ever seen.

It's the same bear who was in a tree for seven hours last month in La Canada and roamed a Pasadena neighborhood in May.

There, Fish and Game officials tranquilized and tagged her with a red tag that can still be seen on her ear.

A Los Angeles County warden says she isn't being tracked and isn't considered to be dangerous.